When I lived in apartments its funny how the management never seemed to enforce the rules/policies on residents who were so obviously bending/breaking them (loud parties, too many people very unkempt patio's dogs over 20lbs etc., but let me park to close to the line of another resident and it was a joke on how fast I'd get a warning??? Once, I got a call to curb my dog outside my patio and I told them I always curbed my Emmitt~ he was a buff cocker spaniel and weighted maybe 30lbs and was thin, but I had seen the mess they were talking about and NO KIDDING it looked like a horse or a great dane left that mountain~ and I also told them that if my Emmitt had done that he would be dead because the high piled mess most likely weighed more than him ~ they asked if I would pick it up any way ~ I told them No. Two days later I saw the young boy who had the great dane and told him he needed to pick it up, he didn't. I got a $50.00 fine 3 days later ~ I was shocked ~ I told them who's dog it was, their apartment and for added measure told them it weighed over the limit ~ A week later I got a reminder to pay that $50.00 ~ turned out the dog belonged to a best friend of the manager. I never payed it and soon after moved (after living there for 8yrs and always paid on time)

I enjoyed somewhat apartment living but there were times when a neighbor upstairs walking around sounded like the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade or the neighbor downstairs who lived to play his bass as loud as he could and all night.

Now that we own our new house, we were excited~ no more shared walls, fighting for parking spaces, and peace and quiet ... until 2 weeks after we moved in our neighbor across the street for 5 1/2 yrs plays his Mariachi music to new heights of loud sound ~ I guess he wants us to hear every little nuance of his music, who knows.

I have a fear of candles too, and I make it a point too to check that all my appliances are unplugged.

As long as he doesnt burn the place down the cop has been a plus. He is a deterrent plus his co workers patrol out this way more now. This little town is not the same place it was when we were kids. Through the day everyone behaves but at night they get up to no good. I never realized drugs were as bad as they are here til recently. We have a new chief of police who is doing a good job but he has his work cut out for him. My husband has a buddy who is blind and he goes to the gym everyday. The gym he uses is on the street behind us. The guy who owns the gym was telling him that the apartments across the street are home to several "working girls". I was stunned. I had no idea it was that bad.

Whacko story, janie!

I too lived in a complex once (near an interstate) w/ just such a "'working girl". She lived directly above me and there were knocks at her door and people up and down the stairs sometimes 3-4 times a night- during the wee hours. I later learned that she had a profile at an adult site and that she "specialized" in entertaining truckers from the half a dozen truck stops just off the interstate within about 1/2 a mile of us. The hell of it was, her front door and my front door were right next to one another and by looking at them one could not tell which door was for the first floor apt. and which was for the upper. Often I mistakenly got knocks at MY door! Imagine their surprize when they were off for a randy session with cutesy l'il 22 yr. old Monica, and instead 350 lb. 35 yr. old KEVIN answered the door! Ha!

OMG I bet their faces were priceless when you came to the door lol.
We have a ham plant here in town (Smithfield) and about three years ago they brought in workers from outside the country. They let their kids run wild in the grocery stores and are loud and rude where ever they go. The working girls are several of the women they brought in to work at the plant.