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combatgoldfish
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Today? A little bit more than today for me. (Stand by for my book)
First, I've been living in an apartment close to the office I work at for almost a year now. I lay down to go to bed around 10PM, I start hearing a noise in the wall like something is dripping. So, I hit the wall a few times to make it shut up and doesn't stop. So, I turn up the TV louder so I can sleep. Three hours later I fall asleep. I wake up around 2AM and hear a load dripping. I look on the floor and notice water dripping from the ceiling thru the smoke detector. At this point, I say f*ck it, I'll deal with this shit later, might as well take a leak since I'm up.
I walk into the bathroom and it's flooded with water and water is dripping from the bathroom fan. Then the smoke detector starts going off, I go to disable it and all the rest of the detectors in the house start going off. So, I scramble to find the 24/7 maintenance number for the complex. It goes to voicemail. I leave a voicemail. An hour later some guy calls who can barely speak any English. He tells me someone will be there shortly to help. 30-45 minutes later two Mexican guys show up that are speaking broken English. They start looking around and say they will be back. They come back 30 minutes later and tell me the guy up stairs left his sink on. His sink.... It was plugged and left it on. They then start drilling holes in the wall, the ceiling then start ripping up my carpet. I tell them I don't have time for this bullshit, I've had an hour of sleep and they can come back to continue. They put a huge fan in my bedroom and a dehumidifier in there. So, no chance of going to sleep now.
I end up going to work earlier, I come home for lunch and there's cut outs in the walls and two ceilings. One hole in the wall in the bedroom, one in the bathroom, then a hole in the ceiling above the kitchen and another one in the bathroom ceiling. Another person who I could barely understand, tells me that it's going to take a week to a week and a half for it to dry and get repaired. That I should call my insurance company and file a claim. That the insurance company would put me up in a hotel and that I should go talk to the office manager.
I go to talk to the office manager, keep in mind, no one from management has reached out to me even though I left them a voicemail at 2AM letting them know what's going on. She had the "Well, I can't do anything for you attitude." She tells me to file an insurance company but they weren't doing anything for me. I asked about the rent that was doing and if they're making any adjustments to it, they tell me they wouldn't. They won't be moving me to another unit or covering hotel costs. I thank her for being so proactive in contacting me and let her know what's going on. She tells me someone talked to me about it. I let her know the people I've spoken with could barely speak English, then she got super defensive and reminded her that I'm the one paying for rent on a place that's been damaged, I've been unable to sleep, she continued with her attitude so I walked out because I was about to lose it.
I try to go back to work, however, at that point I was so mad that I couldn't focus. I end up leaving to figure out where I'm suppose to sleep and get ready for the non profit event. Kirsten (My ex) went with me for support. We get there and she gets a call that her daughter is going to the hospital. She fell down and has a deep cut on her face. I finish the movie (The PTSD Documentary) and Kirsten comes back to bring me to the hospital. I spend 5hrs at the hospital while she gets stitched up. I get home by 2AM, get about 4 hours of sleep and head back to work. Kirsten is now going back and forth with manager trying to get them to make this right and of course they tell her to work with the insurance company and of course with the insurance company they tell us not to file because it's only for property damage. None of my stuff yet has been damaged. I've just had to wash everything in the bathroom and bedroom closet. So, no reason to file a $500 deductible.
We're on day 7, it's still being repaired. Still no apology from management or course of action to make it right. Thankfully my lease is up next month.
First, I've been living in an apartment close to the office I work at for almost a year now. I lay down to go to bed around 10PM, I start hearing a noise in the wall like something is dripping. So, I hit the wall a few times to make it shut up and doesn't stop. So, I turn up the TV louder so I can sleep. Three hours later I fall asleep. I wake up around 2AM and hear a load dripping. I look on the floor and notice water dripping from the ceiling thru the smoke detector. At this point, I say f*ck it, I'll deal with this shit later, might as well take a leak since I'm up.
I walk into the bathroom and it's flooded with water and water is dripping from the bathroom fan. Then the smoke detector starts going off, I go to disable it and all the rest of the detectors in the house start going off. So, I scramble to find the 24/7 maintenance number for the complex. It goes to voicemail. I leave a voicemail. An hour later some guy calls who can barely speak any English. He tells me someone will be there shortly to help. 30-45 minutes later two Mexican guys show up that are speaking broken English. They start looking around and say they will be back. They come back 30 minutes later and tell me the guy up stairs left his sink on. His sink.... It was plugged and left it on. They then start drilling holes in the wall, the ceiling then start ripping up my carpet. I tell them I don't have time for this bullshit, I've had an hour of sleep and they can come back to continue. They put a huge fan in my bedroom and a dehumidifier in there. So, no chance of going to sleep now.
I end up going to work earlier, I come home for lunch and there's cut outs in the walls and two ceilings. One hole in the wall in the bedroom, one in the bathroom, then a hole in the ceiling above the kitchen and another one in the bathroom ceiling. Another person who I could barely understand, tells me that it's going to take a week to a week and a half for it to dry and get repaired. That I should call my insurance company and file a claim. That the insurance company would put me up in a hotel and that I should go talk to the office manager.
I go to talk to the office manager, keep in mind, no one from management has reached out to me even though I left them a voicemail at 2AM letting them know what's going on. She had the "Well, I can't do anything for you attitude." She tells me to file an insurance company but they weren't doing anything for me. I asked about the rent that was doing and if they're making any adjustments to it, they tell me they wouldn't. They won't be moving me to another unit or covering hotel costs. I thank her for being so proactive in contacting me and let her know what's going on. She tells me someone talked to me about it. I let her know the people I've spoken with could barely speak English, then she got super defensive and reminded her that I'm the one paying for rent on a place that's been damaged, I've been unable to sleep, she continued with her attitude so I walked out because I was about to lose it.
I try to go back to work, however, at that point I was so mad that I couldn't focus. I end up leaving to figure out where I'm suppose to sleep and get ready for the non profit event. Kirsten (My ex) went with me for support. We get there and she gets a call that her daughter is going to the hospital. She fell down and has a deep cut on her face. I finish the movie (The PTSD Documentary) and Kirsten comes back to bring me to the hospital. I spend 5hrs at the hospital while she gets stitched up. I get home by 2AM, get about 4 hours of sleep and head back to work. Kirsten is now going back and forth with manager trying to get them to make this right and of course they tell her to work with the insurance company and of course with the insurance company they tell us not to file because it's only for property damage. None of my stuff yet has been damaged. I've just had to wash everything in the bathroom and bedroom closet. So, no reason to file a $500 deductible.
We're on day 7, it's still being repaired. Still no apology from management or course of action to make it right. Thankfully my lease is up next month.
