I currently live in a "historical building" in Midtown Memphis. From the pictures I saw online last year when I was apartment hunting, it looked great. It had great looking atmosphere and I really dug that it was built in the 1920s. I moved in and things seemed okay. My apartment was a loft (one room) and didn't have much in the way of amenities, but the price was right and I needed a place to hang my hat asap.
I'm not going to go into the bulk of the problems I had at this building (that's for a different post later on, after I move). The focus of this posting is the change of residency in the year and a half I've been living there.
When I first moved in at the end of February 2011, the apartments were filled ranging from people in the late 20s to their 40s and up. I even saw a family with a kid.
A couple weeks after I moved in I noticed a moving truck. Someone was moving out. A couple days later another truck was there moving someone else in. It became a pattern. It almost felt like the apartment building was a giant revolving door, tenants who had lived there for years were moving out and new, younger residents were taking their places.
Most of the people moving out had the same complaint: the new management was severely lacking. The new managers took over the building in January 2011 and shortly thereafter the quality of life in the apartments nose dived.
As a result of the influx of younger people the apartments gained an air of a college dormitory. There started to be a different sort of people hanging around. It was very reminiscent of being in college. You know, you had the stoners, the hipsters, the crazy party animals and so on.
It wasn't until recently that it started to become bothersome. About a month or so ago a couple had a huge argument. In the hallway. In front of my apartment. This is something that children and young adults do. It's okay to bicker and argue, but keep it in your house. Don't put it out for everyone to see. That's just rude.
It wasn't the first or only time either. This couple (and a couple others) have a fight, which is public, at least once every other week or so. I have seen or heard at least 5 five fights in the last month and a half.
Another pet peeve of mine is the disregard in parking. I'm pretty sure residents allow their friends to park in the gated lot behind the apartments. This lot is for residents only. Having non-resident cars in the already small lot makes it to where the actual residents cannot park there. I pay to park there, non-residents don't and have no business parking there. Also, people have ignored the handicapped signs in the parking lot. Last year, someone actually moved the sign so that they wouldn't be parking in a "handicapped" spot. That really pissed me off. The two spots that are reserved are for people in wheel chairs and they need those spots so they can get out of their vans. If their spots are filled they end up taking up two normal spots.
Basically, I just want people to be more conscientious when living in an apartment building. You are not the only one living here. Keep your business private and be respectful of the other residents.
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