Yes, that's about right. The lady is still the manager here, but can have difficulty making some residents listen and follow rules. Wife and I get along with the manager great, just like we did for the 10 1/2 years we were at the other apartment complex in Jacksonville, FL
And not only does she not have the support of her boss, he threatens here when the bad actors call and whine at him. Once people find out they can go to her boss like this, things are gonna get worse.
Well, my wife has already given her a few apartment manager jobs that she found on Indeed. She was grateful for that. Don't know how long she will be the manager here, but with this virus thing going on, it could definitely be a longer time than she would like.
What's wrong with backing into a parking space? It's the safest way when you have the time to back in carefully, which you don't always have when it comes to backing out while you're late for work or for an appointment. Plus, you can't see who might be driving or walking behind you when you are backing out of a space. There must be something to it because Cinnaminson, New Jersey has signs posted that it is illegal to back into a parking space within the city. Cinnaminson used to be one of our stops whenever we were traveling south but we avoid it now. Who knows what other stupid laws they might have. Perhaps because I worked in EMS, I have never gotten out of the habit of backing to parking spaces rather than pulling in forward. I've only recently gotten out of the habit of leaving enough space between my car and the car in front of me at intersections so that I can make a U-turn if I need to, but backing into a parking space makes sense.
Life (and work) takes a lot of twists & turns. Even after I was well into my purchasing career, I sought other opportunities due to Office Work Burn Out. There are a lot of ways one can work to pay their bills in this world...not all of them are desirable.
At our last complex, the owners sent the manager I knew to another complex in Jacksonville that they owned. A new lady was hired for manager and boy was she strict. I was even told that, at one time, she was a law enforcement officer and I could definitely believe that. The maintenance supervisor got along great with the manager that was transferred to another complex, but the new one, he did/didn't. This new manager told him one time, "I'm the manager here, not you. You do what I say, not visa-versa." After about 6 months, Mrs. "Mancho" left and the other manager came back. You wouldn't believe how happy many of the residents were, including us. A manager's job can be awfully tough, especially when dealing with folks who don't want to cooperate with what's written in the Lease Agreement
Currently, there is a crew-cab long truck parked backward with part of the the rear and bumper over the sidewalk. The Leasing Agreement states "nothing can be blocking any part of the sidewalk at any time" and this is very true after a snow storm. The snow can't be removed where the back end of the truck is over the sidewalk.
I don't understand. The problems you're suffering now are due to a lack of strict enforcement. As long as strictness is within the bounds of the rules, that should be welcomed. Now, if you're saying that some rules should not be enforced, then we have met the enemy and he is us, so to speak.
The problem isn't that they have backed in, but that they have parked like a drunk. I have a song that I sing to my wife when she does that... Parks like a drunk, Who'd ever thunk, That they give her a license anyway, ay, ay, aye.
Some will "welcome" then, while others will balk at them and even some others will somewhat refuse to follow them. The Lenders Inspection coming up next week is something that some, like us, don't mind at all, while others don't like.
The "Lenders Inspection" meaning the inspection of occupied dwellings? Yeh, I wouldn't like it. It's invasive.
I hated living in apartments and I don't even like renting. I prefer to be in control of what I do in the place where I live and have successfully fought against our code enforcement officer on a couple of occasions. In one case, while we were living in North Carolina for a couple of years, he told us that he would be inspecting our house because we had a tenant living in it. A friend was house-sitting our house while we were away because he needed a place to stay and we needed someone to keep the place from falling apart. My wife told him he'd need a warrant because we weren't renting the house and besides, the town had no ordinance that called for an inspection by the code enforcement officer if we were. We then called the town manager and he told him to back off. A few years ago, he told me that I couldn't have a compost pile. I told him that it wasn't any of his business because it can't be seen from the street, neither of my neighbors was complaining and besides, there were far bigger problems on our block alone that he wasn't doing anything about. A different town manager told him to leave me alone. I think they're afraid that I'll become politically active locally again, as we once ran an online newspaper and a forum where we successfully fought back a bunch of stuff they were doing. I far prefer to own the place where I live. I have been on the other side, as well, because I've worked as an assistant manager of a large apartment complex, and I have rented a house out to someone in Texas, and renting a house to someone is something I'd never want to do again.
Yes, the inside of each occupied apartment. Same kind of walk-thru inspection that was at the last complex we lived at. Each occupied apartment got it, and due to the Lease Agreement stating "garages are for vehicle parking only, not for storage purposes", an inspection was done of them also by maintenance supervisor. Ordered by complex manager thru owners. To many residents were using their garage for storage, not to park their vehicle in. Residents with two vehicles, and not parking one of them in their garage, took up two parking spots in the complex. Some residents complained to management that all of the parking spots close to their apartment were already filled, some with non-resident vehicles. One lady resident, that lived in the same building we did, let her son turn the garage into a movie theater for him and his girlfriend, that also included a bed. There was an electrical outlet in each garage, so the son set up the bed, DVD Player and tv. Would shut the garage door and "away to the bedroom-theater" him and his girlfriend would go. When management found out, that ended the "bedroom theater". Another lady had mental racks in her garage full of stuff from her deceased sister and brother who had lived in the complex. She ended up having to rent a storage place away from the complex and moving everything into it. Remember, most Privacy Laws don't affect apartment complexes, because they are being rented, not bought.
The apartment complex in Huntersville, NC that we lived in, local law enforcement drove thru quite often. Gave tickets for registration tags, cracked windshields, etc.. Now, how could they do this? The complex was built on city streets. That's right, city streets. So, since city streets aren't private, police, sheriff, highway patrol, whatever, can drive thru and give tickets.
The teardrop "A"is my current house. The purple line is my property boundary. The 5 circled red Xs are the nearest houses. The two next to me are related to each other. They don't care what I do, when I do it, or who I do it with. I feel the same way about them. We have a nice relationship. We help each other out all the time. I've tilled their garden for the past few years, and they bring me veggies. I often hear shotgun blasts in the middle of the night. No one goes running to see what happened...why would we waste our time seeing if the guy got that possum that was after his chickens? That possum's not my friend. It ain't family. I really don't care. And neither does anyone else.