Inept Management.
So I get home today, click the garage opener and damn if there isn't another car parked in my freaking garage (detached). I know the door was down when I left this morning, so park in front of the offender's vehicle and take a walk to the office. Haven't stepped into the office in probably four months since I leave before they open and get home after they close and thus utilze the drop box to maximum effect at the first of the month. Anyway there is a new girl in the office I haven't seen and has a very nice set, so my hostility level drops a few notches. Manager is out. She is at a loss as to how someone entered the garage. I head back and call the cops to come take a report and tow the offending vehicle.
When I come out again to wait for the LEO the office chick and the vehicle owners are out there equally pissed that they're blocked in. As suspected the office idiots screwed up and listed my garage as available overnight and issued them an opener while I was at work today. Good thing I don't keep stuff in the garage. If this had been three months down the road I would've had a bike in there and probably stands, tools, compressor, etc.
The manager will be back in on Monday. She's not hot and I won't be nice.
One more year of saving and it'll be time for a house. I hate apartments.
Noise has always been my peeve. Ever since I got a noise complaint filed against me for watching a movie too loud at midnight on my birthday I've been a jackass to everyone else blasting bass past midnight. Had this one neighbor that got kicked out cause he was blasting bass so loud that it shook my table and bed as I was trying to sleep at 4 am. His apartment was a good 60ft away (2 doors down, not the direct neighbor) and 1 floor down. Had someone push over my bike after I filed a noise complaint too. They tried to say that my bike fell into their car and scratched it. I said, "make the beast with two backs that. The bike doesn't fall over on its own. Gimme your info. I'm filing an insurance claim." They gave me an incomplete address and false insurance number which I was too dumb to double check myself and I ended up with new pipes in exchange for my $500 deductible. >:(
Oh, and I feel ya on the lame managers. The manager at my old place was such a lazy ass that when I had noise complaints he would whine about how I should talk to the neighbors myself. I shouldn't have to. They should be respectful enough of their neighbors to keep the noise down without me saying something. It's not like they were just being a little loud either. It was make the beast with two backsing loud and obnoxious. Then when he went to talk to them he'd say I was being a jackass and giving him shit and that they should turn it down but he won't do anything if they won't. What a jackass. When someone stole his scuba gear out of the back of his pick-up truck I was laughing my ass off behind his back. Only an idiot leaves shit like that out for weeks on end.
My experience in Canadian apartments is similarly crappy. One time my little summer-only sporty car got snowed on while parked in the guest parking (which I was allowed to use for a limited time every week). I waited for the snow to melt so I could drive it to a garage, but the manager slapped a 'please move' notice under my door one morning. Fine, I'll move it after work. I come home at 5pm, and my car's been towed already. I was livid, I went and pregnant doged, quite righteously, to the pathetic wench managing the place, and she admitted she should have waited 24 hours but there was nothing to do about it now, too bad. I moved out shortly after...
To an apartment where the same car was broken into the next summer, in their parking lot, mere weeks before I was moving overseas (and had NO time to muck about with insurance). And then the management decided to not return my deposit money, and what could I do from across the ocean, haw haw? By the time I got back, the old management was gone and there were no records backing up my case.
Yeah no joke, apartments suck. Did my fair share of apt dwelling in college and i've been lucky enough to rent a condo from a private individual the last 5 years. Never going apartments again.