Place is starting to look like a third world Slum

Bretrick said:
Not in this rental catastrophe that is occurring.
I am currently paying $1420 a month.
The average rental for a 1 bedroom unit is $1935/month.
Competition is fierce with 30 to 40 or more people turning up for homes open viewings.
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Word. I'm looking at moving from upstate New York to Maine where my family has at the end of my lease this spring. It is easier said than done. On top of the cost, there is I need it to be assessible and I admit I am scared to death of landing in a situation like yours and/or pests like roaches, mice and rats. The conditions you're enduring attract pests.
 
Similar to where I live, except they aren't immigrants. They are all born here, white, and inherited the house from their parents or grandparents. May be everything is just going to hell, or is it I'm just getting old?
 
David777 said:
Although most news media that is controlled by Wall Street never explains such per below, a primary reason the government has been letting in so many poor unskilled people into the USA and particularly rich California as I've written several times before, is so there is a massive under supply of affordable residence rentals. So those banks in Australia noticed and decided to play the same game.

Thus immigrant poor often live crammed in above normal numbers in low cost apartments that then jacks up rates and causes many including our citizen poor to move into higher cost middle working class rentals than they want because they have no choice. While pushing many marginally into homelessness. That then in turn puts pressure on middle working class rentals that in turn pushes them into higher cost rentals than they would choose that is the only housing being built. That news media keeps spewing "we need more housing" but then due to construction corps and their bank corporate buddies, only build expensive housing with the lie "its the only way we can make a profit". So yeah we working class citizens are being gamed.

Worse, since the Internet rose that gave them worldwide communication to rich people, they now advertise to the rest of those wealthy of the planet to come to the West Coast and other highly favored places and buy our zillion dollar new homes and you can move in with your extended families, no questions asked! And if that isn't possible mr rich, you can just join our REIT fund.
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On top of that, those of us not of the elite are also facing many landlords have adopted a policy of your rent can't be more than a third of your income. This formula assumes a lot of expenses I don't have, the main one of which is I don't drive. My living expenses other than housing are extremely low. I have a 778 credit score (most only require 600 or 650 that check it) but I can be shut out of a decent apartment I can easily afford because rents are so high they take half my income. It's just not fair.

And it also encourages landlords to get slack and ignore problems like OP's and not do necessary maintenance etc. I've been in my apartment off and on 11 iyears. I first moved in 11 years ago but I bought a house two years in and was in that for two years trying to keep up and finding I could not. I thought I'd get services for the work I couldn't do but found that GD near impossible. Maintaining a house when disabled - well, good luck with that. You're lucky if you can find someone to mow your lawn or plow your driveway. Neighborhood boys no longer do such things.

So I gave up, put my house on the market and since I had left on good terms with my landlord called to see if they had an apartment available. I got my old apartment back. I broke even on the house, with relief, selling it back to the family that I bought it from who had been in it since the 1920s when built. Youngest grandson had just married and was happy to get family home back but I had no equity, of course, and was just lucky I got out without owing anything.

I've now been back in this apartment seven years and have appreciated it all the more but now my landlord probably aware of the housing crisis caused by this nation being flooded with immigrants (basic supply and demand) has adapted an attitude and has become terrible at fixing things. I have had a nonworking dishwasher for the last two years because the old one wore out and they've only one maintenance guy now for half a dozen complexes (when I moved in, there were a couple for each). He "installed" the new one and did not do it right. Obvioiusly doesn't know how to and if I complain, they'll just send him back so I just handwash my dishes now which is not cool because standing hurts me.

What I've endured this past year is unreal. We have an annual infestation of box elder beetles, fortunately, a rather harmless bug that doesn't bite or carry disease or even eat your food but is rather a pest and can colonize in huge numbers.

n past years, I've told them they're back and they sprayed, bugs died and were gone. This year I told them and they just said oh, we've decided not to spray despite that being against New York state law. I brought in code enforcement upset that I had to as I've never had to for this building before. Code enforcement is one guy in this small village. I can only deduce that he's in the landlord's pocket as he did not enforce the law. I could go over his head to county or state but it hardly worth the fight.

On top of that, I happened to have a plumbing problem with the toilet not working during a snowstorm. Because the one maintenance guy was out plowing the lots of all the half dozen complexes, they refused to send someone for six hours. When I pointed out that I was paying for emergency maintenance and I certainly need a pot to p in, they offered the office's restroom down the hall. It was not assessible and heavily perfumed and I am highly allergic to perfume.

When I kept calling and kicking the fuss that hey you know GD well I'm ill and need a working toilet. It's hardly an unreasnable request to not have to wait half a day to have a working toilet, maintence guy callled his millennial son. Son came down in his pajamas mid-afternoon and literally pulled his hair freaking out, I don't know what to do so I swell had someone mental on top of not having a working commode.

It's sadly time to move. Which breaks my heart. My daughter, son-in-law and grandson moved to Maine and I am semi-dependent on my daughter who travels all the way to upstate New York from Maine to assist me every few weeks so it also time to move in that regard to but it is honestly the maintenance issues and finding out my landlord is rather a crook.

There was a write up about a long list of charges brought up against him in the local paper a few years back but he's escaped every one of them by throwing his accomplice, different every time, under the bus; yeah, I'm so not buying that it's always them, not him, and he's an innocent little lamb that didndunuthin. Finding that out (he wasnt caught the first time until after I moved out, I always check their name if I can find it and he doesn't hide his), I no longer want to enrich this POS financially though I doubt my piddling rent makes much difference to him. He's probably using his apartments to launder money but I obviously don't want to be part of that either.

So I didn't follow my family to Maine when they moved there a couple of years ago. I had hoped I'd live out my life in this apartment. But now with all that, I decided to move to where they are and the apartment searching is dismal af based not just on higher rents but assesiblity (what is with all the stairs in front of building entrances in Maine) and many landlords will only let you go to one-third of your income which wouldn't buy anyplace decent no matter how good your credit score or your lack of a driver's license meaning you obviously don't have the major expense of a car.

That and the building code inspector practically sneered at me even when I pointed out that his own website said New York State law said infestations had to be exterminated and said I should be glad I had an ADA compliant apartment at the report that bugs were crawling on me and my guests.

Moving scares me becasue I'm scared to death I'll have what I haven't had here: roaches, mice, rats or bedbugs and/or the problems OP is suffering. Fam reports a lot of homeless encampments in Maine.
 
HermitHogan said:
I'm not sure they're "unvetted," but immigration is definitely a problem, with the largest percentage of them coming from India.
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I don't know about Australia but here in the US many are. They just flood through our southern border unchecked. Many terrorists have come in. Another thing that scares me about moving is that so have their violent gangs. One Brazilian gang has been taking over apartment complexes and forcing the tenants to pay the rent to them instead of landlords. There's something extremely fishy going on in all this moving people around the planet. Not just displacement which don't get me started but that's poltiical so we're not supposed to but also why is law enforcement doing nothing about it and why are landlords not up in arms?
 
Twostep said:
I am sorry to hear that your block is going south. Start looking. It may take a while but occasionally Lady Luck may shine on you.that
Considering the hoops of legal immigration to the US and Australia - where do the poor uneducated masses come from and how did they get in?
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What? You have not heard of the boats and caravans being organized by rich liberal elites who will not have to live with the problem they're purposely creating? They want to displace the majority population. They have stated as much. But when a bunch of their darling undocumented immigrants were shipped to thier elite Martha's Vineyard, boy did they ever kick a fuss and turn them away post haste. They shouldn't have to put up with what they expect folks in Texas to.
 
I remember when the term "melting pot" was no longer politically correct. My mother was an immigrant. Though they shouldn't have let her crazy ass in.

But now that's not the term and people are not expected to assimilate with their new country at all. Just bring and keep their whole culture.
 
Blaze Duskdreamer said:
What? You have not heard of the boats and caravans being organized by rich liberal elites who will not have to live with the problem they're purposely creating? They want to displace the majority population. They have stated as much. But when a bunch of their darling undocumented immigrants were shipped to thier elite Martha's Vineyard, boy did they ever kick a fuss and turn them away post haste. They shouldn't have to put up with what they expect folks in Texas to.
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Please read everything I said. Thank you.
 
Blaze Duskdreamer said:
What? You have not heard of the boats and caravans being organized by rich liberal elites who will not have to live with the problem they're purposely creating? They want to displace the majority population. They have stated as much. But when a bunch of their darling undocumented immigrants were shipped to thier elite Martha's Vineyard, boy did they ever kick a fuss and turn them away post haste. They shouldn't have to put up with what they expect folks in Texas to.
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What is different about Martha's Vinyard from Texas when it comes to illigal immigrations?
 
Bretrick said:
The residents have paid their own way here. At least that is what I can deduce. Mostly Asian, and Africans
I say they have paid their own way purely on seeing their possessions. Many of them have large, late model 4WD vehicles.
One lady became very boisterous when I pointed out how to dispose of rubbish. One man laughed at me when I asked him if he had read the pamphlet I gave him the week before. When I look in the bins, a large number of the "How To" pamphlets were throw out, unopened.
From what I have seen, they will do as they please.
The Estate Agent has a scheme going that if residents recommend a new tenant that is accepted then that person will receive a $200 gift card.
I have not seen a caucasian person being shown a unit here for more than 4 years. All foreign.
There is no need for the Estate Agent to advertise. Obviously she is receiving plenty of recommendations when a place becomes vacant.
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There is no "pay your own way visa" to Australia. It would be intersting to see how your illegals swim in.

Your pamphlets are a waste of time and trees. Time to start actively looking for a change.
 
Bretrick said:
spitting and nose clearing onto the ground
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I remember that from when I was a kid and we'd visit my bachelor great-uncles, the sons of German immigrants to Nebraska. We kids were pretty horrified by them holding and blowing their noses onto the ground. Ugh! Some of the brothers were a little less uncouth. And the brother that had gotten married and lived on the farm next door had a real bathroom (the bachelor great-uncles continued with the outside water pump and outhouse-toilet their whole lives), and seemed much more civilized.

I totally sympathize with your culture-shock, and how it must be extra upsetting because the different culture came into your space. I lived overseas for several years in my twenties, and what seemed interesting and quaint when I first lived there eventually turned into culture-shock, which was a very unhappy feeling.

I'm sorry your community doesn't enforce the rules, that really would make a big difference. Life is so much smoother when rules are enforced without individuals having to try to deal with issues themselves.
 
Blaze Duskdreamer said:
On top of that, those of us not of the elite are also facing many landlords have adopted a policy of your rent can't be more than a third of your income. This formula assumes a lot of expenses I don't have, the main one of which is I don't drive. My living expenses other than housing are extremely low. I have a 778 credit score (most only require 600 or 650 that check it) but I can be shut out of a decent apartment I can easily afford because rents are so high they take half my income. It's just not fair.

And it also encourages landlords to get slack and ignore problems like OP's and not do necessary maintenance etc. I've been in my apartment off and on 11 iyears. I first moved in 11 years ago but I bought a house two years in and was in that for two years trying to keep up and finding I could not. I thought I'd get services for the work I couldn't do but found that GD near impossible. Maintaining a house when disabled - well, good luck with that. You're lucky if you can find someone to mow your lawn or plow your driveway. Neighborhood boys no longer do such things.

So I gave up, put my house on the market and since I had left on good terms with my landlord called to see if they had an apartment available. I got my old apartment back. I broke even on the house, with relief, selling it back to the family that I bought it from who had been in it since the 1920s when built. Youngest grandson had just married and was happy to get family home back but I had no equity, of course, and was just lucky I got out without owing anything.

I've now been back in this apartment seven years and have appreciated it all the more but now my landlord probably aware of the housing crisis caused by this nation being flooded with immigrants (basic supply and demand) has adapted an attitude and has become terrible at fixing things. I have had a nonworking dishwasher for the last two years because the old one wore out and they've only one maintenance guy now for half a dozen complexes (when I moved in, there were a couple for each). He "installed" the new one and did not do it right. Obvioiusly doesn't know how to and if I complain, they'll just send him back so I just handwash my dishes now which is not cool because standing hurts me.

What I've endured this past year is unreal. We have an annual infestation of box elder beetles, fortunately, a rather harmless bug that doesn't bite or carry disease or even eat your food but is rather a pest and can colonize in huge numbers.

n past years, I've told them they're back and they sprayed, bugs died and were gone. This year I told them and they just said oh, we've decided not to spray despite that being against New York state law. I brought in code enforcement upset that I had to as I've never had to for this building before. Code enforcement is one guy in this small village. I can only deduce that he's in the landlord's pocket as he did not enforce the law. I could go over his head to county or state but it hardly worth the fight.

On top of that, I happened to have a plumbing problem with the toilet not working during a snowstorm. Because the one maintenance guy was out plowing the lots of all the half dozen complexes, they refused to send someone for six hours. When I pointed out that I was paying for emergency maintenance and I certainly need a pot to p in, they offered the office's restroom down the hall. It was not assessible and heavily perfumed and I am highly allergic to perfume.

When I kept calling and kicking the fuss that hey you know GD well I'm ill and need a working toilet. It's hardly an unreasnable request to not have to wait half a day to have a working toilet, maintence guy callled his millennial son. Son came down in his pajamas mid-afternoon and literally pulled his hair freaking out, I don't know what to do so I swell had someone mental on top of not having a working commode.

It's sadly time to move. Which breaks my heart. My daughter, son-in-law and grandson moved to Maine and I am semi-dependent on my daughter who travels all the way to upstate New York from Maine to assist me every few weeks so it also time to move in that regard to but it is honestly the maintenance issues and finding out my landlord is rather a crook.

There was a write up about a long list of charges brought up against him in the local paper a few years back but he's escaped every one of them by throwing his accomplice, different every time, under the bus; yeah, I'm so not buying that it's always them, not him, and he's an innocent little lamb that didndunuthin. Finding that out (he wasnt caught the first time until after I moved out, I always check their name if I can find it and he doesn't hide his), I no longer want to enrich this POS financially though I doubt my piddling rent makes much difference to him. He's probably using his apartments to launder money but I obviously don't want to be part of that either.

So I didn't follow my family to Maine when they moved there a couple of years ago. I had hoped I'd live out my life in this apartment. But now with all that, I decided to move to where they are and the apartment searching is dismal af based not just on higher rents but assesiblity (what is with all the stairs in front of building entrances in Maine) and many landlords will only let you go to one-third of your income which wouldn't buy anyplace decent no matter how good your credit score or your lack of a driver's license meaning you obviously don't have the major expense of a car.

That and the building code inspector practically sneered at me even when I pointed out that his own website said New York State law said infestations had to be exterminated and said I should be glad I had an ADA compliant apartment at the report that bugs were crawling on me and my guests.

Moving scares me becasue I'm scared to death I'll have what I haven't had here: roaches, mice, rats or bedbugs and/or the problems OP is suffering. Fam reports a lot of homeless encampments in Maine.
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Such a sad story. I hope you eventually get the accommodation you need and deserve.
 
@Bretrick, do you know how much these other tenants are paying. Is it subsidized by the government? He must be getting considerably more to give out those $200 gift cards and allow his building to deteriorate.
 
Lilac said:
Your offering the same excuses for what they are doing :(.

As far as the "misunderstanding instructions issue", the OP passed out pamphlets to the tenants so they had the information on the rules. He was laughed at when he asked if the info was read & then treated badly by another when he tried to help her by explaining where garbage goes. Then the pamphlets were found unopened in the trash. Help was offered & refused ... these aren't actions by people who want to fit in or even have an intention to do so or to do the right thing.

If these issues occur at the apartments in their country of origin, that is their home countries problem for not correcting it & allowing such filthy conditions to exist. This is not an excuse to move to another country & turn the new country into a cesspool just like where they came from.

Not hanging laundry in the proper areas is laziness & saying it's not safe to do so is just another excuse for refusing to follow the rules.
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I suggested the possiblity of misunderstanding bin instructions before Bretrick stated he handed out pamphlets - which of course people may or may not understand.
obviously I can only post on what I know at the time

These issues occur in mismanaged rented apartments everywhere - it isnt a 'their country of origin' thing - I'm not even sure how many are non Australian now, just that they are mostly not white
Australians come in all colours and nearly all of us are migrants or generation or 2 migrant descended.

The laundry issue really wouldnt bother me and not wanting to leave laundry hanging on an unattended clothesline or lug it downstairs seems understandable to me. That isnt a 'filthy conditions' thing. so, yes, I can excuse that.
 
@January, this is post #1:

Bretrick said:
My block of units, 30 in all, 25 of them occupied by new immigrants.
Hanging washing from the balconies when clothes lines are supplied, Raw meat being hung to dry on said balconies, spitting and nose clearing onto the ground, rubbish/cigarette butts throw onto the ground, Incorrect disposal into recycling bins, unwrapped raw meat being placed in rubbish bins.
If I could I would move away from this disrespectful rabble
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I consider the the highlighted items as filthy living conditions that are happening at THIS apartment complex. All of these actions are unsanitary & create a breeding ground for mold, bacteria & diseases to be spread by flies, roaches & rats.

What they are doing was acceptable in the countries they came from, but it isn't acceptable to the citizens of Australia who shouldn't have to change the way they live if it's going to create a health hazard.
 
Received an email from the estate agent today.

Good afternoon Residents...

Happy New Year to you all. Please see below reminders for the following:

RUBBISH & DUMPING

I have attended today and wanted to remind you all of Rubbish Etiquette and Dumping in the bin areas. Please find attached a photo of the rubbish bin area and illegal dumping that is continuing.

Please DO NOT DUMP RUBBISH that does not go into the bins at Bin area. If any of you need to get rid of Mattress, TV’s, white goods etc, please let us know, we can organise on demand waste collections. Either verge collection or skip bins from City of Stirling on your behalf. You will, be required to place your own items on the verge or in the skip as instructed. Please visit their website.

A skip bin has been organised for 22/01/25.

If you do see other residents dumping items or misusing the Rubbish bins, please report to us.

Also noted cardboard to the pathway of No:19 that requires to be placed folded/crushed and placed into the yellow bins. All cardboard to be placed in the bins needs to be folded/crushed to allow enough space for other tenants recycling.

SECURITY

Whilst attending a few routine inspections, it has been noted that some properties are still not secure when no one is home. A reminder to you all to please ensure windows, doors and patio doors even on balcony’s require to be locked as will attract opportunist thieves if properties are not secured.

FIRE RISKS

Although we respect tenants that have a shrine area within their homes, it is a fire risk to have lit candles unattended. Please ensure these are distinguished when not at home to prevent any fire risks.

We do hope that you all would prefer a to live in a cleaner complex, please be respectful to your neighbours and surrounding areas.

Any queries, please just ask

Nothing more will happen with this. These emails keep coming and things remain the same.

 
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Kadee said:
WelL it sounds like they have had complaints and at least trying step one to solve the issues first hand
by supplying a skip, bin ..Hope it’s a big skip bin @Bretrick
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Yes, they are trying, this is the umpteenth skip bin supplied. The rules state, if large items need to be disposed of then it is up to the tenant to ring the council and request a skip bin. No one does it. Everything is simply dumped for other people to deal with.
 

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