However, this notice was a warning to "clean up" my balcony or receive a $25.00 penalty. I was dumbfounded to say the least and my first thought was, 'they must have the wrong apartment.' All I had on my balcony were two lawn chairs and four storage totes stacked on top of each other in the corner.
I took the notice in to management who confirmed they did indeed have the right apartment and that the storage totes must go citing the resident handbook which states that balconies are not to be used as storage. I understand why they wouldn't want someone to throw all their junk out there or have loads of boxes or junk out there but we are talking about four clean, totes stacked in a corner taking up about 4 square inches of the balcony!
I set aside yesterday to find a place for the offending totes. Anyway, the only way I had room in the storage closet was to take the Christmas tree out. Then I decided if I was in process of moving storage containers around, I may as well just get all my Christmas stuff out and put away all my fall stuff. That way, instead of chucking around boxes in two weeks again, I would be set for a couple months.
So yesterday, two weeks earlier than I planned, I put up our Christmas tree and decked out our apartment with my Christmas decorations.. All this while I still have my air conditioning on 24/7.
And now, I have a 6ft Christmas tree box on my bedroom floor. But, hey, at least my balcony is clean. Maybe I should just sleep out there.
And lest you think I'm gonna go down quietly, I have penned a letter to management:
To Management,
I
apologize for having four storage totes out on my balcony! I want you to know that I have rectified the
situation by removing my Christmas tree from the storage closet and replacing
it with said totes. I now have a 6ft
Christmas tree box on the floor in my bedroom – but at least my balcony is
clean now. Every time I look at the box I will be
reminded of how I have paid $1200.00 a month to rent this space and now have a huge
box on my bedroom floor because I cannot even keep four storage totes on my balcony! I’m not talking about boxes or junk…I mean
nice, clean storage totes stacked on top of each other in the corner of my
balcony taking up about 4 square inches. Either way, they are now out of sight because they replaced the 6ft
Christmas tree box which is on my bedroom floor. Thank you.
I guess
your reasoning behind this is for aesthetic beauty. In that case I would like you to know that it
is not aesthetically beautiful for
me to open my door and see a pool with cracks on the bottom that has a huge
chain around the gate and a pool closed sign hanging from it…for over FIVE
months now! I know it is difficult to
repair but that is not my problem.
I
really did not want to be like this.
After waiting what I considered to be a sufficient amount of time, I
expected the pool to be fixed. It was
not. I still did not say anything
because I don’t like to make waves. But since I was issued a warning for having
FOUR storage totes on my balcony and now have been forced to live with a
Christmas tree box on my bedroom floor…waves have already been made. Please advise what steps you are taking to
fix the pool issue or we can get together to discuss a rent reimbursement for
having my beautiful view ruined by the look of a damaged pool I am unable to
use.
Sincerely,
Judy Koeck
K202
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