22 People Shared Their Nightmare Living Situations

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“I’ve been living the nightmare up until very recently. I have been forced out of my home of more than 10 years due to corporate greed. My apartment complex used to be owned by a smaller property management company, and while it was older, it was well-maintained, and the manager lived on site. Now, the complex is owned by a corporate PM company, and it’s gone all downhill. There’s no one onsite past business hours, so emergencies go ignored until the PM is available. They are so focused on trying to ‘renovate’ the units to look ‘pretty’ so they can turn a bigger profit, that they’ve neglected anything else.”

“We had issues go neglected for months in favor of the renovation — there are construction bins blocking parking spots (and there’s already not enough parking so it’s utter chaos after 5 p.m.), and we had major plumbing issues causing water shutoff for DAYS that they never compensated for. The windows really need replacing, but they’re not touching them because it doesn’t make the apartment ‘look’ better, I guess. The neighborhood is not a quiet or safe one, either. Watching them try to gentrify this complex by slapping a few cheap cosmetic changes on it in order to jack up rents while ignoring the bigger problems is so infuriating. Good riddance!”

—Anonymous, California