I am so glad we're moving out of this shithole on Friday.
This place was so nice when we moved in, and because of subsidizing and mismanagement, it has gone completely down the tubes. The few nice families that are here are having their cars and apartments broken into, and are already scared to let their kids play on the playground. This place just started leasing in MAY for Christ Sakes!!
Tonight, the pizza delivery guy got robbed at GUNPOINT right in front of my apartment! JP was already at work...he had to come to WHERE WE LIVE to do the police reports. (Note: It wasn't MY apartment that the pizza man was delivering to, but the one right across the parking spaces...less than 50 feet away.) Last week, 3 cars got broken into. 2 weeks before that, another guy got $1200 stolen when someone broke into his apartment. (He had just moved here from out of state and hadn't set up his bank accounts yet- that was ALL his savings.)
When JP took the security officer position, we were told that this place was NOT going to be government subsidized housing. This was going to be sort of a halfway point for people getting off of government care- like, they're making it enough to get out of the projects, but they're still not on their feet enough to afford an apartment without a little help. It was supposed to be salary capped here. Well, then they made it Section 8, and all the bad people that were previously kept out came in. I mean, really, would you rather deal drugs from a run down house in the projects (where cops come regularly) OR would you rather deal them out of a brand new apartment in a quiet development on a quiet side of town?
Now, please, before someone reads all this and starts giving me the riot act on stereotyping people in the projects or whatever...I'M NOT. There are plenty of good families here who work really hard for what they have. They are grateful for the help they get and are really good people who either fell on hard times or either didn't get or take some opportunities in life that others (myself included) got. They aren't the people that have ruined this apartment complex. The people that my rant pertains to are the people who would rather rob people at gunpoint as they deliver a pizza. The people who break into the car of someone who has worked really hard to afford a decent, working radio and steals it. The person who breaks into people's apartments who don't have much to begin with anyway and takes things that aren't theirs.
It ills me that the apartment manager here is more concerned with dog droppings being on the grass than evicting someone who JP and other officers inform her is a known drug dealer. It ills me that she will undoubtedly come to HIM tomorrow and ask him why HE wasn't here to take charge of the robbery situation (he was at work!)...just like she asked him another time "Well, can't you just go take care of it if that guy is dealing drugs?" (in case you didn't know, no. Civil liberties, people.) Regardless of the government money that this place gets, the manager is allowed to turn down applicants. When the police department alerts her of someone doing illegal activities in her complex, she has every right to evict them. But she doesn't. Instead, she bangs on tennants doors at 8 am, demanding them to pick up cigarette butts, or to clean up after their dogs, or to clean up their breezeway (we've been subjected to and witnessed this MANY times---we clean up our cigarette butts and our dog mess AND we don't even have a welcome mat in the breezeway).
THESE are the things that aggravate me. I'm not aggravated at the government. I'm not saying helping people is bad. I'm not saying all of the people here are bad. I'm just saying it's really sad for the people that can now NOT afford to get out of here because they moved here thinking they were finally getting out of a bad place/situation.
Oh forget it. I'm done for the night. Time to go pack some more.
This place was so nice when we moved in, and because of subsidizing and mismanagement, it has gone completely down the tubes. The few nice families that are here are having their cars and apartments broken into, and are already scared to let their kids play on the playground. This place just started leasing in MAY for Christ Sakes!!
Tonight, the pizza delivery guy got robbed at GUNPOINT right in front of my apartment! JP was already at work...he had to come to WHERE WE LIVE to do the police reports. (Note: It wasn't MY apartment that the pizza man was delivering to, but the one right across the parking spaces...less than 50 feet away.) Last week, 3 cars got broken into. 2 weeks before that, another guy got $1200 stolen when someone broke into his apartment. (He had just moved here from out of state and hadn't set up his bank accounts yet- that was ALL his savings.)
When JP took the security officer position, we were told that this place was NOT going to be government subsidized housing. This was going to be sort of a halfway point for people getting off of government care- like, they're making it enough to get out of the projects, but they're still not on their feet enough to afford an apartment without a little help. It was supposed to be salary capped here. Well, then they made it Section 8, and all the bad people that were previously kept out came in. I mean, really, would you rather deal drugs from a run down house in the projects (where cops come regularly) OR would you rather deal them out of a brand new apartment in a quiet development on a quiet side of town?
Now, please, before someone reads all this and starts giving me the riot act on stereotyping people in the projects or whatever...I'M NOT. There are plenty of good families here who work really hard for what they have. They are grateful for the help they get and are really good people who either fell on hard times or either didn't get or take some opportunities in life that others (myself included) got. They aren't the people that have ruined this apartment complex. The people that my rant pertains to are the people who would rather rob people at gunpoint as they deliver a pizza. The people who break into the car of someone who has worked really hard to afford a decent, working radio and steals it. The person who breaks into people's apartments who don't have much to begin with anyway and takes things that aren't theirs.
It ills me that the apartment manager here is more concerned with dog droppings being on the grass than evicting someone who JP and other officers inform her is a known drug dealer. It ills me that she will undoubtedly come to HIM tomorrow and ask him why HE wasn't here to take charge of the robbery situation (he was at work!)...just like she asked him another time "Well, can't you just go take care of it if that guy is dealing drugs?" (in case you didn't know, no. Civil liberties, people.) Regardless of the government money that this place gets, the manager is allowed to turn down applicants. When the police department alerts her of someone doing illegal activities in her complex, she has every right to evict them. But she doesn't. Instead, she bangs on tennants doors at 8 am, demanding them to pick up cigarette butts, or to clean up after their dogs, or to clean up their breezeway (we've been subjected to and witnessed this MANY times---we clean up our cigarette butts and our dog mess AND we don't even have a welcome mat in the breezeway).
THESE are the things that aggravate me. I'm not aggravated at the government. I'm not saying helping people is bad. I'm not saying all of the people here are bad. I'm just saying it's really sad for the people that can now NOT afford to get out of here because they moved here thinking they were finally getting out of a bad place/situation.
Oh forget it. I'm done for the night. Time to go pack some more.
ps... never did get your gift (walmart gift card)