Is The Neon Pink Supposed To Make It Look Professional?
Posted By Kristabella on July 14, 2009
Tonight I came home from work, exhausted because I didn’t sleep well last night. Why didn’t I sleep well last night, you ask? Well because I decided that since it was cooler outside last night, I didn’t need to turn the air conditioning on. Which was very green and Earth-conscious of me.
What I realized is that having your windows face the parking lot + living in a building with a bunch of assholes = Waking up 17 times throughout the night due to the jackass blasting his LOUD Indian music as he pulled into his parking spot at 2 AM and the douchebag who has the world’s most sensitive car alarm that goes off all. The. TIME. This from the girl who has slept through four-alarm fires and earthquakes. So sorry Mother Earth, the A/C goes back on tonight.
(I should add that I had not one, but TWO, fans going. That is how loud my fucking rude neighbors are.)
As I was saying, tonight I came home to this sign pasted all over the damn condo complex.
Someone likes to bold, italicize and underline things at my property management office!
I have so many issues with this, the least of all it being neon pink.
1) WHAT are you exterminating? HUMANS? RATS? VAMPIRES?
2)What kind of infestation do we have in this building that I’m not aware of (i.e. it ain’t in MY unit) that we need an exterminator for?* What kind of fucking New-York-and-Company-pants-stealing critters infest this building?
2) Why do you need access to MY HOUSE? The one I OWN? Do you honestly think I’ll leave the house that morning for work and just leave the door UNLOCKED? Like, so anyone and their mother can break in? Like you do realize you put the NEON PINK sign up where the mailman can see? And any other visitors? LET’S ADVERTISE THAT EVERY FUCKING UNIT IN THE BUILDING WILL BE UNLOCKED ON FRIDAY! That should increase the property value!
3) And then I wonder “they don’t have keys do they?” Like this isn’t a fucking apartment complex. The only person with keys to this unit is ME. WHAT IF THEY DO? I come home to exterminated cats?
I am not comfortable with this at all. My door will be triple locked when I leave the house on Friday morning. And I’m leaving a trail of mouse traps along the floor, and maybe a fucking bear trap, so that if you do enter my house, it will be the last time you make that mistake.
Please tell me this is NOT normal for condos.
*On a separate note posted today, regarding our condo board meeting later this month, one of the agenda topics is Early August Extermination. Clearly this is an issue I wasn’t aware of. Until I walked down the stairs to go take a photo of the neon pink sign and stepped on an ant.**
(Also on the agenda – a special assessment for lawyer fees (news to me), repairs to the front doors and Dish Network. The meeting is the Sunday after BlogHer ends, at 6:30 PM. I suppose I should go, only because I have Dish Network and I’m not taking my dish down after I just signed a 2-year contract. Then we’ll be talking special assessments for lawyers when I sue your ass.)
**And now since I’ve been thinking about critters and exterminators, I constantly feel like bugs are crawling on me. WAY TO GO CONDO FUCKERS!
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Well, not good, no, but at least they care enough to bring in an exterminator! In NYC, we had mice VISIBLY CRAWLING ACROSS OUR PLYWOOD FLOORS, no joke, and no number of calls to the landlord or super would get someone into the place to fix the problem. (And our mice, Heather #1, 2 and 3, were too smart for any traps we tried to set for them, too!)
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Well… bugs are better than snakes?
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What are you supposed to do with your pets? Also, please post a sign with a similar design asking where in the hell your package is.
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Exterminators are not necessary for ants. Cinnamon left in the corners will bugger up their scent trails big time. Also? Less toxic, much cheaper, no intrusion.
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Lock it up! You don’t HAVE to grant them access.
Now, I don’t know for sure, but I think that some buildings do preventative extermination, so I wouldn’t worry too much about critters in the building. But clearly, tell them to go to hell about getting into your unit.
And now I’m imagining a giant literally fucking your condo.
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I agree with Dutchess…I think they do preemptive exterminating….like spray around the outside doors, back hallways, stairwells, etc., for whatever bugs might want to think about coming in. No reason to access your unit. A neon pink sign isn’t a pass key. Idiots.
It was normal for me when I was living in the condo I owned in Arlington, VA. We had building wide maintenance and such that you needed to allow them access to do. However we did not leave our places open, they did have a key. It was well run and regulated and I never had an issues. They always gave us notice that they would be entering and left a notice in your place after they had been there so you knew when exactly someone had been in your place. Sounds like there is much room for improvement in the process!
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I think that maintenance probably does have the keys so if you don’t want them to come in, I would definitely let them know. Tell them you have pets and that you don’t want your place exterminated. Put up a big pink sign. But, if they insist, ask if they will change the litter box and feed them while you are there.
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uh, that sounds like a mess. it does beg the question–do they have keys? leave the door unlocked? stay home from work so you can let these people in at ANY time? wtf? and uh, nobody in that building could possibly be out of town for the weekend?
i was so happy for you and your new condo. i am sad that you are having problems.
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I do not know the normal practices for condo’s, although you would think that since you OWN your home it should be completely UP TO YOU who comes in and out. You could always be like Macauley Caulkin in Home Alone.
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As far as I know, you should be the only one with keys. That’s how it works in our building, at least.
We’ve never had anything as silly “Hey leave your unit unlocked all day so we can get in!” just routine turning the water off 8 times in 3 months to try and fix the crappy water pressure. But at least it’s usually during a time when most people are at work.
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If you’re not sure if anyone else has keys to your condo, you could have the locks re-keyed.
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Nic… why did you have to bring up the snakes?
Welcome to Condo Hell.
It is normal.
They don’t usually have keys (mine doesn’t)
At my place the HOA will set up things on Saturdays so you don’t have to take time off work to be there.
And meetings are important for you to go, to see what’s happening with your dues, but they SUCK!
My neighbors are also noisy,However Norm scares them into silence(thanks god for bald tattoo guys)
Ah, yes. One of the CONS in CONdominium living.
One of the nice things about living in a condominium is that you have neighbors. It’s also one of the bad things.
I live in a small condo complex (9 units) which is self managed (my husband is actually the VP), so our circumstances may be different than yours if you live in a larger building . . . but if a (PINK!) sign like that went up in our lobby I would LAUGH IN ITS EFFING FACE.
No way in hell should anyone at the property management office have a KEY to your place and no way in hell should anyone be allowed to ‘scheudle’ an extermination without your input and consent.
My blood is boiling on your behalf.
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OH HEYELLLLL NO. i’d lock my door, then be afraid they’d have a key anyway, and then be afraid they’d go in and spray in my absence and kill the cats, so i’d probably end up calling them to ask WTF the deal was because DO NOT KILL MY CATS KTHX.
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As OWNERS of the condos, aren’t the individuals responsible for exterminating their own properties? That’s kind of odd. Hell yeah, I would lock my door too! Could be some kind of scam…
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If the rest of your building is being exterminated, trust me: YOU WANT YOUR UNIT TREATED. Otherwise when all the bugs/critters/whatever they’re exterminating evacuate your neighbours units, they’re going to run straight into yours. That’s why when a building is treated, you really should treat the whooooole building. My landlord doesn’t bother, so whenever our filthy neighbours wind up with cockroaches and have their apt. sprayed, the bugs try to take up residence in mine instead (no deal — I personally caulked or expanding foamed every crack in my kitchen and bathroom).
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THE HECK???
Someone deserves a flaming bag of poo. And it’s not you.
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Other people having keys to your unit = not normal in a condo complex.
HOAs occasionally needing to get access into every unit = normal, but usually not mandatory.
HOAs needing to get access into every unit for sprinkler inspections at the order of the fire chief = uncommon, but totally mandatory if it happens unless you have $$$ to drop on all sorts of fines and penalties.
I’ve been in my condo for a few years now and know my neighbors pretty well. When stuff like this pops up one of us will usually hold the keys for all our units and let the guys in when they need to.
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You are just lucky they didn’t unleash a highlighter on it
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Thanks for the idea! Heading to the nearest staples to print some hot pink signs and then locating the highest-end condominiums in town : )
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