I had some reservations about renting to her.
It was back when I was a “Roving Manager”. Roving managers are building managers that rent units in buildings that are not their own to make some extra bucks. I was making too many enemies of “Rental Agents” who didn’t appreciate me doing it. Rather than having to “Sleep with the fish’s” I stopped doing it and She just happened to be my last rental. I had tried to steer her away from my buildings cause I thought she was a bit… -M-…odd…She was just a bit childlike which would turnout to be as in “Children Of The Corn” childlike!
She was wishy washiy and I had been trying to close the deal on getting her into a building other than mine. She kept changing her mind back to mine. The deal was closed. She would be my problem.
Feeling a little bit worried about her slight social retardation (She was just not a normal human) I invited She and her mother to go out to listen to some music and drink some wine just to ease her mothers mind that I was ok and her “Child” would be fine with me.
Soon the complaints started to come in…Loud music; strange interactions with tenants; general odd behavior.
She would befriend neighbors and eventually wear them out. Kind of a stalker.
She began parking in a driveway where it was made quite clear non-employees were not to park. She was very bold about it and felt quite righteous about parking there. I asked her not to and started getting some very hostile reactions from her, which turned into overblown reports to the office. (The beginning of a real nightmare). She would block workers in who would wait literally hours for her to move. My district manager confronted her. She solicited other problem assholes in the building. Some of what she was saying about me was ludicrous! Her behavior got very out of control. She set up a restaurant on the roof with tables and glasses, took over a storage closet with out permission, started befriending and acquiring keys to peoples apartments and moving freely in and out of their apartments.
One day she called the fire department about a gas leak in an apartment. When the fire department got there they found an ironing board jammed up against the oven gas switch and a rupture (Possibly man made) in the supply line, with burned ignition materials on the stove surface.
Soon after upon regular inspection of the building early one morning I found a 3 page letter taped to every-one’s door.
Basically saying that I was a violent drug addict who had threatened her in a dangerous manner…that “I hated women!”…I love that one! I still get complaints about her and odd behavior, but I’ve given up! There’s nothing I can do. No one is willing to do anything to back me up, so I’ve given up and I just avoid the building the people…screw it!
A very frustrating situation when someone can just get away with that behavior, especially after how hard I tried to accommodate her. In a real world I would have been able to get her thrown out for “life threatening behavior and “slander”…I guess times have changed. I find there are many people with “Mommy and Daddy” issues where I become the focal point of their immature acting out. I’m probably really not a good manager. I put up with and avoid a lot of that kind of stuff. I just hate confrontation…It’s something I really suck at. I’m kind of too much the nice guy and it will usually come back to bite me.
I need a Utopia…Which way to “Burning Man?”
The "Moat"
