Thursday, April 9, 2009

Going crazy

So managing apartments definately has ups and downs, probably more downs at this point but who is complaining right....lol. Anyway, as many of you know we have been doing this for 2 years now and will be down in about 2 weeks....yay does not even describe my joy.
We have probably had every thing you can think of happen while we have managed here. I probably have several gray hairs now from all the stress that I have from this job. Just to let you know how crazy this place is, I will just name a few of the things that we have had to deal with. We had to evict a tenant who had overdosed on sleeping pills and a whole bunch of other prescribed medicine and had to go to the emergency room with them. We evicted a tenant for overdosing on Heroine in their bathroom, and a tenant had to break in because he was seizing on the floor, we've had a tenant who threatened to kill his roommate, and the worst one, having to call the police to come to my house because there was a guy who we evicted who wasn't happy about it and came to the office while I was home by myself and like 7 months prego, and he was really mad. He wanted me to give him his deposit back but he hadn't moved out his stuff yet or anything so I couldn't do it. Anyway, he would not leave and just kept harassing me about it, and I called Travis and he came and got him to leave, but he came back and wouldn't leave again, so I tried to call Travis again but he didn't answer, and so I didn't know what to do. I told him he needed to get out of my office please, but he wouldn't and so I told him that it was my house and that he needed to get out right now or I would call the police.
He still didn't leave and so I said I was calling the police. He was like good go ahead I wanted to call them because I wanted to report that you guys stole from me. I was like okay then go call them, and he started yelling at me to call them, so finally I did because I didn't want to deal with his crap and I was scared of him. I really thought he was going to hit me or something.
Travis had come home in the meantime before the police got here, and he tried to get him to leave, but he wouldn't. He tried to go back into our house, but Travis stood in front of him and he got up in Travis face so Travis pushed him away.
5 policemen finally came and they had tazors and everything out because this kid was being aggressive towards them too.
Anyway, that is just some of the stuff we have had to deal with, and this is all BYU approved housing...go figure! I have great stories if you want to hear more, I could go on and on.
So, that is my wonderful saga story and I am just going crazy from all the stuff I have to deal with.
There are so many things that go wrong at apartment complexes and we have probably had to deal with all of them. I really am surprised I am still in one piece and have some sanity left, well maybe I do, I am not sure anymore...
I am counting down the days and trying not to scream when I get calls from college kids parents about stuff that their kids are too chicken to talk to me about themselves, and dealing with people yelling at me and getting mad because they didn't get something fixed that they never submitted a request for in the first place, or telling me this is not fair and that they are reporting us to BYU housing. The list goes on and on, and so am I so I will end it here.
The point is, don't manage single students, they are such whiners, and don't know how to deal with situations in a reasonable manner.

4 comments:

Danielle said...

ugh...sounds miserable! excited for you that you're done soon!!! hang in there until then!

Nathan and Colette said...

hey, I didn't know you guys had a blog!! How exciting, now I can see what you guys are doing!

Jon and Diana said...

yikes double yikes. sounds like you did a great job and now you are done. you deserve a medal!

Angie said...

You should totally start a blog just for traumatic management experiences! I'd read it. :o)