I swear I live in a nice apartment

"E90M3" (e90m3) 01/23/2020 at 08:36 • Filed to: None

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Was walking up the stairs to my apartment yesterday after work and I noticed this on a neighbors door. If you’re fortunate enough to have no idea what this is, it’s an eviction notice. In fact, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . In all my years of apartment living, this is the first apartment complex I’ve seen with eviction notices on doors; not that they didn’t evict people in other complexes I’ve lived at, but I’ve never seen an eviction notice before. This is also my first time living in SC, so it’s possible that has something to do with it. 

Discerning > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 08:47

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C ould be an SC thing like you suggested. I’ve lived in some expensive apartment buildings in Atlanta and people got evicted on occasion. They didn’t get door notices though.

One of my friends at the complex actually got evicted. He was in an expensive roommate suite and his roommate left during the lease and disappeared. He tried to get a new roommate and he tried to foot the rent on his own, but he eventually fell behind and they were quick to remove him. They didn’t give him any leeway or assistance or consideration.

I learned just how awful the office was when I was moving out. They tried to get me on a lot of things and they said one thing and then tried to do something else. They very quickly backed down when they learned my interactions poll ns (phone calls) and my final walkthrough were both recorded.

TysMagic > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 08:53

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Working with state specific laws all day, I’d speculatively say that’s probably some SC requirement thing. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 08:54

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Wait until you see one of these on your neighbor’s door:

Our first neighbor, the one who purchased the house new, presented herself as a well-to-do, single, capable, mother and executive who could definitely afford the finer things in life like a house and a new BMW. After stiffing me for half of the cost of the fence I built between our houses, I wasn’t surprised to discover that she had fallen behind in her payments and was forced to sell.

E90M3 > Discerning 01/23/2020 at 08:54

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Probably is an SC thing. This complex seems reasonable, for example, I didn’t pay rent for a year and they didn’t try and evict me . I did eventually pay all that rent, and they weren’t even talking about eviction, more of a payment plan. 

facw > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 08:58

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I got one of those left at my door! Because their autopay system broke and they apparently decided sending out eviction notices was the way to go (hopefully before they noticed that all their autopay people missed rent). Not fun! And not in keeping with the lease which allows late rent with a fine.

Also after Harvey the entire first floor got eviction notices as their apartments were deemed “unin habitable”, that’s a bit more understandable, but either way it sucks to suddenly get notice that you need to vacate within two days.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 09:01

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That’s why you live in a nice apartment. They keep the riff-raff out.

I’ve only ever lived in an apartment once. I did get evicted due to my roommate not paying her share of the bills. And the apartment complex were complete dicks about it too. I know I didn’t have the full balance when rent was due, but I tried to pay a portion of it to keep the account somewhat current. They would only accept full payment of the balance. They also stiffed me on my security deposit because they never fixed stuff they said they would when I moved in. It was an expensive lesson to learn, but one I did pretty quickly. I’ve never rented an apartment again.

E90M3 > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/23/2020 at 09:03

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Yikes. 

E90M3 > TysMagic 01/23/2020 at 09:04

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That’s what I’m leaning towards. 

Nibby > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 09:06

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when will they put a note on your door saying you don’t have to worry about paying for rent ever aga in ?

E90M3 > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 01/23/2020 at 09:06

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True. The people who got evicted in August had a pathfinder that had blue smoke come out of the exhaust when started, was missing a mirror, and had what sounded like rod knock. 

E90M3 > facw 01/23/2020 at 09:07

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You had mentioned that last time I posted about an eviction notice; still infuriating. 

E90M3 > Nibby 01/23/2020 at 09:08

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That would be the day I decide I can live the apartment live a lot longer than expected. 

Nibby > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 09:08

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MORE MONEY FOR MORE E90s AND E92s

E90M3 > Nibby 01/23/2020 at 09:09

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I mean, why do you think I’m dating a doctor? 

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 09:16

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The way the notice is posted is probably a function of it being a legal process that has to be served. State statue and court rules will dictate exactly how that has to happen. Generally, serving the process by handing it to the person is the gold standard, but in many states posting it the door of the last known residence and then following up with another copy via certified mail will meet the rule if they can’t be found in person.

TheRealBicycleBuck > facw 01/23/2020 at 09:16

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I’m surprised the whole building was n’t condemned after Harvey. When the bottom floor is inundated, the air quality in the entire building can be compromised.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 09:17

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Yuup. I’ve got one before. I think auto-pay didn’t go though (card expired?) or it was before auto-pay and we just forgot. I always thought it was a dick move to jump straight to eviction without even a phone call, but I guess that is corporate policy for you.

Similarly every once in a while my Geico auto-pay wouldn’t go through (problem with my bank) and OH BOY do they let you know. I got 2-3 emails and the same number of snail mail letters. One day after the auto-pay failed. Of course the letters trickled in days and weeks later, so it was a constant stream of annoyance.  It got bad enough I started filing customer complaints every time it happened.  Luckily my bank has figured their shit out and I haven’t had the problem in years.

Ash78, voting early and often > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 09:19

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24 hours?! But how am I supposed to move my stuff out AND trash the place with such short notice?

Ash78, voting early and often > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 09:22

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Meanwhile places like Louisiana and Florida require you to send polite letters for up to 2 years before doing anything, which helps ensure that every piece of copper is stripped out of the building first.

Not even kidding....during the great recession, the bank where I worked had about 30-40% lower ultimate recoveries on foreclosures in those two states because of the supposed “consumer protection laws” that caused legal action to drag out. It literally just gave the residents more time to neglect and/or vandalize everything.

facw > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 09:22

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I thought I had posted about it before... Not fun at all...

E90M3 > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 01/23/2020 at 09:24

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That’s one reason none of my bills are on auto- pay; that and I figured it was easier to not pay and dispute a bill than it would be to try and recoup a large incorrect bill. I’ve only forgotten to pay my electric bill once, I noticed when I logged on and was wondering why my bill was double what it normally was and then I realized I had forgotten to pay. Apparently it’s two missed bills before they shut your electricity off. I know this because a coworker thought he was on auto-pay. 

E90M3 > Ash78, voting early and often 01/23/2020 at 09:25

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Epic rager? 

facw > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/23/2020 at 09:27

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Yeah, my building was good about ripping out the first floor walls/carpets quickly, but it still seems like stuff could come up through the walls. And maybe it did, the reason I left was that I came back after being away for Christmas/New Years and my bathroom was absolutely covered in mold.

Could be worse though, there was a building across the street that stalled for almost two months, relenting only tenants complained to the city and the city threatened to shut the whole place down. Of course by that point the mold there was awful and the cleanup crews needed expensive contractors in full-body PPE.

Thomas Donohue > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 09:27

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Ditto.  Kegger tonight.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 09:28

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That’s kinda shitty. On the one hand I get it for legal reasons, it means there’s lot of people witnessing that it’s been served. But on the other hand it’s kind of humiliating for the party being served. Also, like you said, if it’s a common occurrence it does leave the impression that it’s not a nice place to live. 

Discerning > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 09:31

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That seems like a huge oversight and sort of crazy.

My apartment was run by a large corporation with properties all over the US.  They were awful. I live there for two years and never caused an issue for them. I was late on a payment by two days about half way through my time there and they refused to waive the penalty. Then, when I moved out, you would have thought I had personally wronged them somehow. Their tone and messaging changed and they became genuinely awful.

MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) > Ash78, voting early and often 01/23/2020 at 09:31

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stuff can be two things ( moving out/trashing the place). Maybe some white fish in the vents and a Facebook post about free copper wire at your address? Parting out your apartment? 

Milky > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 09:36

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I lived with a guy who forgot to pay while on vacation, we got one on our door a few days later. You know, a simple email could have worked.

Dont judge the neighbors too hard, shit happens.  

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 09:48

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Haha ok funny story... ish.  Back when we lived in an apartment my patner figured out the late fee on our electricity bill was less than the “pay online” fee, so he just started paying it every other month.  Kinda bit us in the ass when we moved though as the company required something like a $600 deposit haha

TheRealBicycleBuck > facw 01/23/2020 at 10:01

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Exactly! Nobody would allow a building to be built on top of an open sewer, yet that’s exactly what you have when the first floor of the building is inundated during a flood.

I lived in a dorm which was designed to be passively cooled by water storage in the basement. There were open columns from the basement to the roof. Air was supposed to move through grates in the sidewalk, through the basement, through the open columns, and out the roof. They didn’t anticipate someone using the columns for electrical chases and creating perforations through the walls for light fixtures. They also didn’t anticipate individual a/c units being installed in every room.

The end result was a system that didn’t function as designed. Sometimes the seals on the light fixtures would fail and water would enter into the rooms via the fixtures. I’m pretty sure the passive cooling system failed because the cold air-conditioned rooms cooled down the walls of the open columns, thereby reversing the air flow in t he system. What I do know for certain is that the place always smelled moldy.  If  you left the a/c off for an afternoon, you would come back to a room with condensation everywhere. Leave it off for a couple of days and you would come back to a room full of mold.

Tripper > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 10:05

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I thought they came like that.

Nibby > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 10:10

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does she know about us ;)

E90M3 > Tripper 01/23/2020 at 10:26

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Only if you’re the fifth owner! 

E90M3 > Milky 01/23/2020 at 10:28

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I think the apartment has been unoccupied for a little, meaning these people knew they were eventually going to get evicted. No idea what went wrong in their life, the others I think were living above their means. 

E90M3 > Discerning 01/23/2020 at 10:33

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I think the woman thought she was going to lose her job over it, so that might have been why she didn’t try and resort to it. I mean, in the end I did pay in full, so they got their money. 

E90M3 > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 01/23/2020 at 10:34

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I’ve been there almost two years and this is the second time I’ve seen a notice. I assume in both cases the people had already vacated. 

E90M3 > Nibby 01/23/2020 at 10:35

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She’s seen the oppo sticker, and I think she knows about the Lexus road trip. 

Nibby > E90M3 01/23/2020 at 10:40

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no, i mean does she know about you and me 

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 01/23/2020 at 10:47

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I had an issue many years ago with my auto insurer that my payment didn’t go through.  No call or email from them, but I did get a letter three weeks after the fact that they retroactively cancelled my coverage.  So, I had been driving around for 3 weeks without insurance.  Luckily nothing happened during that time.  

Snuze: Needs another Swede > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/23/2020 at 11:57

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If I ever see that I’m calling the bank and scraping up as much money as I can to buy it! I’d love to buy another house in my neighborhood to keep as a rental property (and storage for more cars/ Volvos ).  

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Discerning 01/23/2020 at 12:02

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We lived in an apartment that was independently owned/operated at first, and they were great. A lot of the people working in the office and at the front desk lived in the building, they were kind and helpful. We had an auto pay issue once and it was no big deal. But after a few years the owners sold out to a RIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) and the trust brought in an outside management agency and it all went to hell. Once they ticketed me because cars had to be moved by 7:00 AM for some parking lot work , well I come out at 6:58 AM and I’ve got a ticket. I quick take a picture of my car so I have a picture with a time stamp and show them, and they accused me of doctoring the photo, and refused to budge on the ticket. I eventually had to pay it so we could move out.

Discerning > Snuze: Needs another Swede 01/23/2020 at 12:50

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Th at’s crazy. I once got booted by my apartment building because they decided to boot any car without a current refistration sticker. I get that... but I got ticketed a week into the month after my registration appeared to have not been renewed. Only it had been renewed and my new sticker got lost in the mail. I had to fight with management on several occasions before they removed the boot and the fine.

notsomethingstructural > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 01/23/2020 at 16:31

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I believe this is correct, this isn’t a “past-due” reminder or a potential action (which would be a dick move to post on someone’s door right away) , this is a Magistrate’s order. I am 99% sure in New York if a tenant refuses service of a court notice / order , this is the alternate. It’s called “nail-and-mail” because the location of service is used as their address. Pretty sure y ou can’t nail-and-mail non-tenancy stuff in New York.

M.T. Blake > E90M3 01/24/2020 at 05:22

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The hood is creeping on into the complex. :S