Random Sucky Neighbor Thoughts

[Ironclad Alibi]

Any way you can get Busybody neighbor to clean your old place?

[Food Lady]

I was over at the old apartment getting a couple more things out and saw that in addition to painting the front doors of the building, Busybody neighbor also painted the laundry room door, put up curtains on the front doors, and replaced the address numbers. Can we say, get a life?

I literally said "What?!" and then

[notalwaysright]

I was over at the old apartment getting a couple more things out and saw that in addition to painting the front doors of the building, Busybody neighbor also painted the laundry room door, put up curtains on the front doors, and replaced the address numbers. Can we say, get a life?

I'm getting a feel for my new place. It's fine. My neighbors on one side are a very nice retired couple, and I'm not 100% on who's on the other side but I think it's an older guy who walks with a cane. He seems to go get in his car, leave, and come back within minutes. I think he drives to get the mail and such. I still have to go clean my old place, but I've been so dead from work I haven't had time.

[MoonCat]

Food Lady, we've got some oddballs around here, too, not even mentioning the possible drug dealers on one side of me and the busybody old bat on the other side.

There's this one guy who walks up and down the street bouncing a basketball. He's a grown man, not a kid, not a teen. Every now and then, he'll stop, and stare at one of the houses. Just stands there, stone still, and stares for a while, then he'll move on. There's never anything happening at any of the houses he stares at. Sometimes he stares at people, too.


I try not to make eye contact with him, he gives me a creepy feeling. There was one time the cops were looking for him because someone claimed he'd been nosing around the windows at the church on the corner.

Just lots of random oddballs around, I guess.

[notalwaysright]

Busybody neighbor was painting the front doors of the building today.

In other news, I managed to get an apartment! Without a co-signer, even. I don't make the proper amount (3x rent), so I was surprised. Anyway, it was down to the wire. I got approved on the 12th, and officially signed the lease on the 17th. I have to be out of my current place by the 31st.

It's not the Ritz. It smells like smoke if you close the windows (not crazy bad, but enough to be annoying) and the beautiful big kitchen and living room windows are like five feet from parked cars. It wasn't cleaned super well, so I've been over cleaning. But enough of the bad. There are lots of good things. I have a dishwasher again! The dishwasher and refrigerator are only two months old. My kitchen is bigger, and I have a little dining area. Currently I have no dining space at all. The bathroom has a full bathtub, not just a shower like my place now. I have two closets, instead of just one.

It is in an "eh" neighborhood. Not terrible, or anything. But these places are not like "stay forever" places. That's actually another positive. I only had to sign a six month lease, and after it goes to month to month. So I could get on a waiting list for a better place, and not be locked into a year lease, which is what my old landlord does. It really is difficult in this town to find a place at the exact time your year long lease ends. Anyway, I'm moving Saturday! Then I'll clean the old place really good so my landlord doesn't charge extra, and I'll have the carpets cleaned. That's another annoying thing. This is the first place I've rented where I'm responsible for getting the carpets cleaned. Usually that's considered normal wear and tear, but whatever.

[Food Lady]

So it's quiet all night but you decide to start fireworks at 2:15 am??

[Food Lady]

I don't know what your problem is, but did you really have to slow your roll to turn and stare at me, gaze bearing down as if I had run over your puppy, just because I got into my car?? That's literally all I did--I got in my car, closed the door, went to turn the key and noticed she'd gotten past me to her building when she suddenly dead stopped, turned, and stared me down. I've NEVER had an actual interaction with her but I've randomly seen her in the parking lot because she lives in the building across from me. I think. See? I don't even know because I don't know her from Eve. And yet every time she sees me she does this. I'm going to have to assume my complex has started renting to more mentally ill people than ever before, maybe because their rent is guaranteed by the state. That makes several neighbors exhibiting bizarre behavior around me. I can't afford to move.

[Kit-Ginevra]

. Saying something to my back as I get into my mailbox--simply because it happens to be across from your porch--is weird, especially after 10:00 pm.

You were getting INTO a mailbox? Heck,I might say something if I saw someone trying to squish themselves into a mailbox at any time of day....

[Food Lady]

Look, I don't really know you. I call you Blondie because of that. I only know your real name from your mailbox. Saying something to my back as I get into my mailbox--simply because it happens to be across from your porch--is weird, especially after 10:00 pm. I don't even know what you said because you mumbled it, but knowing you it was about what I was carrying or how much mail I had or something obvious to me that you didn't need to point out. So I ignored it because, as I said, I had my back to you. I resent that I feel I have to schedule such mundane activities around times you are not on your porch so I can avoid the awkwardness of feeling like everything you see me do is cataloged. You know, my neighbor right next to me doesn't do that. If we actually pass on the stairs we might say hi, but she doesn't go out of her way to make comments about my life in my general direction but not directly to me. I guess midnight would've been a better time for me to get my mail tonight, which is utterly ridiculous. Also, I'm on the second floor and you're on the first and as far as I can tell you don't do this to your neighbors directly across from you. Stop emotionally stalking me.

[Food Lady]

^ I'm hearing those really loud ones right now and if I'm correct they are not legal here. I know bottle rockets aren't and there's another kind that looks like a little bomb--totally illegal because they're dangerous.

[Ghel]

I get that there's a national holiday on Tuesday, and people are known to be especially stupid with fireworks, but this pissed me off!

Saturday night, the neighbors on the east side of me were setting off fireworks. It was annoying, but I let it go until a particularly loud one went off about 3 feet from my window (at least, that's what it sounded like). I stormed out the back door and yelled at them, using the excuse that people were trying to sleep (it was around 10:30). At first, they claimed it wasn't them, but almost immediately copped to it.

It's especially stupid to be setting off fireworks in backyards with the houses so close together and trees all around their yard. I'm somewhat surprised they didn't set something on fire.

When I went back inside, my poor cat was running round trying to find somewhere to hide. She eventually hid under the bed. Last night, she was acting scared again, but I'm not sure if it was from farther-off fireworks or the sounds of the neighbors' voices.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Attention, Idiot Neighbor...bad enough I had to take your wet clothes out of the washer yet again so I could have a crack at it, but how stupid are you to have left EIGHTY DOLLARS and assorted change in your pockets?! It's damn lucky for you I'm an honest sort, and tossed the soggy moolah into your basket...said basket still being there after my clothes had finished the washing and drying cycles.

But MJ that $80 was a tip to whoever took out the clothes for them. And that assorted change was for the dryer.

[Monterey Jack]

Attention, Idiot Neighbor...bad enough I had to take your wet clothes out of the washer yet again so I could have a crack at it, but how stupid are you to have left EIGHTY DOLLARS and assorted change in your pockets?! It's damn lucky for you I'm an honest sort, and tossed the soggy moolah into your basket...said basket still being there after my clothes had finished the washing and drying cycles.

[Pixelated]

I hope something comes up for you soon. When you're on a tight budget, that seems to be the toughest time to find someplace to live.

I don't know if it'll help, but is there any way for you to get alerts in your email about rentals? I've got them coming in here (city in southern Ontario) and also in what is likely going to be my next place of residence (Prairie city). It might make it easier for you to see possibilities a little quicker.

Keeping my fingers crossed for you.

[notalwaysright]

Well, not so much sucky neighbors as sucky town. I've been looking, but there is little in my price range. What is available gets snatched up so fast, even though I watch like a hawk. I'm getting super freaked out. I have to be out at the end of July. I should have a place lined up by now. I should have scheduled movers (movers in town are actually not much more expensive then renting a truck and buying all your friends pizza and beer plus professionals tend not to break things) and scheduled the carpet cleaners, since that's my responsibility.

Basically, I'm a ball of nerves. I have been looking for a long time now, and I don't know, maybe I've been too picky because I refuse to live near the college? But even those places go really fast. I mean, they rent out like 3-4 months in advance. In contrast, the places that are low income won't even tell me if there's going to be any openings any farther out then 20 days. I sleep totally fine, but when I wake up in the morning, I immediately feel waves of dread and fear. This sucks.