REVISED - Letter to Bad Building Managers (or Case to buy a Condo)

PAULIE'S NOTE: Sarah's mom made her re-write this. Apparently it was too mean. Since we're all about the love here at FatPaulie, I'm replacing the original with this one. *sigh*

And Sarah, where's the Word Doc with "Track Changes" enabled? I want to know what's different!

Letter to Bad Building Managers
*Based on a True Story and Actual Letter*
by Sarah B.

Okay… you are lucky that I had to revise this blog because my mom said it was too mean.

I got something to say to you… You suck! I talked to the Rentalsman. They are on to you… oh yes, they are on to you. You know exactly why I am mad. Section 1 of the Residential Lease agreement states: The tenant shall have quiet enjoyment of the residential premises. To translate to Building Managers terms so you understand: no loud sounds.

Since I have been up as of 4 AM this morning with the rest of the Roosters from the incessant buzzing sound piercing through my apartment, I have had a lot of time to formulate my thoughts into a letter. Basically, I have had a lot of time to become very pissed off and rant like a crazy woman. I actually attempted to call you at 5 AM so that, you too, could enjoy the sweet melodic sound of BUZZING and prematurely risen from your slumber. However, conveniently for you, the phone line was turned off to receive incoming calls so that you did not have to be disturbed from your sleep as I WAS.

I really really appreciate what a great job you have been doing of ignoring me. I would like to think that if a tenant experienced a LOUD BUZZING SOUND 24/7 it would be addressed and responded to in a timely manner. I think it reasonable to assume the problem would be fixed in less than a week (in a perfect world, perhaps a day or two) especially if disturbing a tenants’ ability to sleep and work, or at the very least addressed in a timely manner. However, it has been over a month now since the problem has begun and yet, nothing on your part has suggested that this problem is going away; only that it is in the “thousands” of dollars to fix. I don’t @#*(& CARE. Just fix it! Do I complain to you about my job? No, I didn’t think so. Don’t tell me how stressed or busy you are. Welcome to the real world. I guess Apartment Building Management wasn’t the dream career you thought it would be?

For the record, I have been phoning and emailing for a month now. I do hope you know how to work the email contraption.

I want you to try to imagine the sound of a fire alarm underneath your bedroom which grows louder during the sleeping hours. Try to imagine what it would be like to sleep under these conditions and know you have to work in the morning with such minimal sleep. Imagine how it would feel to have this constant buzzing growing louder as each day passes and the problem is not addressed. Try to imagine the feeling of desperation and hopelessness as your apartment building, to which the problem belongs, ignores your requests to have this problem fixed. I have tried many arrangements to lessen effects of this problem (not that I should have to) such as sleeping with earplugs with toques with bunny hugs over the toques. Sounds fun right? It is not. YOU try waking up with an earplug stuck to your face.

Perhaps, I am not important enough to you as a tenant because I am young and female and therefore, disrespected. That is very unfortunate, as I would like to think that a young professional with a University degree would be exactly the type of tenant that you would want living in your building. Perhaps if I was an old, complaining geezer like the rest of the people in the building, this problem would be already fixed. Well I guess I will just have to join the Building Seniors’ Association and make some influential granny friends with connections.

As you can tell from this letter and the tone of this letter, I am right pissed off. I have been a good tenant, I pay my rent on time, I don’t stink up the apartment with Bengay vapors and I do not deserve to have to live in these conditions and be ignored by the very building in which I pay to live. I hope that you take my request seriously as this is a very serious problem. For the first time in four years, I bought a paper this morning to look at the apartments for rent (probably much cheaper than I pay you too). This is very unfortunate for you that is has come this far.

Signed,

A Pissed Off Tenant & Crazy Woman who Needs SLEEP