[wi] Accused Of Stealing By Leasing Office And Had Maintenance Unlock My Door Without Letting Us Know They Were Coming. All In Less Than 72h.
Just to clear possible misunderstandings, these 2 situations are unrelated to each other, but I’m starting to get really, really pissed, specifically because I didn’t even have time to get over the first one, and they throw the next one at me in under 72h.
Last Friday, I was with my husband at the lobby of our apartment building, and I told my husband that he could go up, because I was going to wait for my Fedex package (it was his Christmas gift, and it showed on the tracking that’d arrive in under 20 minutes. Dude that works at the leasing office was there at the entire time, sitting down at the reception. Every single interaction with him since we moved has been as unhelpful as possible. He always seems incredibly annoyed when anyone talks to him, or asks him any question. While I was waiting for my package, I witnessed him also being rude to an old lady trying to ask him something, but he was incredibly dismissive, and the lady got really upset.
Either way, Fedex guy arrives carrying a bunch of packages, I open the glass door and say “Hello! I was just waiting for you!” in a friendly tone. He laughed and asked if we had a mail room, I said yes and took him here. He put the packages on the floor, and left. I go through the pile, see mine, get it and go through hallway, elevator and to our apartment. In the elevator, I ripped the label of the package, because I didn’t want my husband to know where it was from, so he wouldn’t know what I got him for Christmas. I opened the box, went to one of the rooms and started wrapping the gift, while my husband is working on the living room. He gets a call from the dude, but was busy with work and it went to voicemail, which said with these exact words “Your guest took packages that weren’t hers” and that they wanted me to go downstairs. My husband immediately told me, and I didn’t even have time to go through the door, before the dude and the Fedex guy were knocking on the door. I told them I didn’t get my package, and the Fedex guy said he went back to the truck to get more packages, and that he hadn’t scanned any of the packages yet, and that I wasn’t supposed to have gotten mine. And then also proceeded to ask if I didn’t hide (?) packages on the mail room shelves, because there are 2 packages missing. I said I didn’t get any other packages and didn’t put any in the shelves, and then brought my package and the stickers that I have tossed in the trash so my husband wouldn’t see. He wasn’t able to scan in, so they made me sign a document saying I have received that package. At this point, the dude from office already left, so I went downstairs, with my phone recording in my pocket and I told him, in a calm and collected way, that I did not appreciate that he left a voicemail in my husband’s phone saying I took packages that weren’t mine. He said he never said that. I told him we have the voicemail and that if he wanted, he could just look any of the camera footage, and he’d know I only got my package. He said in a threatening tone that yes, he was going to check the footage. I said great, and he said “I’m sorry you got sooo offended”. At this point, any conversation was unfruitful. I told him that was passive aggressive and left the leasing office.
Dude goes back to sitting in the reception and this other woman comes to hug him and says in a mocking way “Don’t worry, we will look in the surveillance cameras”, and he said “I have seen things”. SEEN WHAT MY DUDE???? ME GETTING MY PACKAGE? Of course I didn’t say anything, because at this point no conversation will lead to anything and went back to my apartment.
Now to the other problem, we have shitty maintenance. I brought up an issue when we moved in 4 months ago, because I wanted them to know that it was there when we moved, cause we didn’t want them to say it was us and make us pay. They said they’d fix it. 3 months later, they show up unannounced (they always do), open the hole in the cabinet, say they’ll come on the next day to fix it. We hear nothing from them for almost a month. Today, I’m home busy with work and I hear them knocking on the door. I didn’t want to interrupt what I was doing, so I thought they’d be back later. No. They decided to go ahead and unlock and open my door. I went to the door, and said “Absolutely not”. They said “No??!!!” like they were shocked, and I repeated “Absolutely not. You are supposed to let us know you are coming.” and closed the door. I heard them saying they didn’t think anyone would be here (?????) and left.
I’m tired of living here, but unfortunately we can’t move until middle of next year. Is there any way I can protect myself and avoid future situations of them coming inside our apartment without any call, email, telepathy, smoke sign, etc.? It’s not like I have anything to hide, but I’m a woman and the thought that just any dude can come in here any time they feel like creeps me out.
Is there anything I can do to protect myself legally from being accused of theft again? I have never stolen anything in my life, but I’m terrified of going there to get any of our packages and being accused again. That asshole is down there all day, and God knows what kind of rumor he is spreading around about me. I don’t feel safe living here anymore.
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