Hennepin Country Minneapolis: Stolen Package Concerns Turned Into "having Someone In Your Apartment Alone Is A Liability"

For about 2 years my partner has had a bunch of his packages stolen from the package drop off at his apartment complex. (costing a load of money in losses) from the lobby of his building despite all efforts he could not obtain them immediately, but a mfer needs to go to work you know? The front of the building has straight up clear as daylight glass you can see though at any time day or night.

He has had most items shipped to a very local CVS that has a postal service inside. They're closed now for good and won't be a safe place for him to send or receive. All other places to receive packages at other places are so far away it's stupid. It would cost least $13 there and another back. We live in south Minneapolis where gang shoot outs are a reg kinda thing and it's very very low income at my boyfriends apartment (same as mine. we haven't got a lot of options with my disability though) He ain't got that kind of money to travel back and forth for all the shit he needs to (medication, cat food, litter, other essentials.

He has no car, no bike, just a bus system to use where he's multiple times had his life threatened in a serious way and saw others stabbed bloody and assaulted. Fuck them busses, but wtf can you do when your poor as hell. Anyway, wtf am I on about.

Today my very only Christmas (Solstice) gift was delayed but delivered today, which is why I came over to his place to wait. I was here to get the package but because I'm sick as hell and took some cold and cough med I slept til' 2 hours after the damn thing on the USPS alerted me that it had arrived. I sat on them stairs waitin' til' I'd figured it'd it came, but it was too late. Some fucker stole it before I could wake and rattle myself up to run down a few flights of stairs.

He received a tenant memo from another person living in the building yesterday that highlighted concern about missing packages that happen on a regular basis. He suggested anyone with concerns should reach out to management to report theft when it occurs, Also, with the suggestion that making the front windows opaquer and harder to see through so any thief cannot see inside. The logic is, you cannot steal what you cannot see.

I called the property management yesterday (mostly because my boyfriend has a hard time expressing his concerns while "under pressure". My honey has mega anxiety and gets flustered easy when put the spot.). and the gal I spoke to was stupid as all get out. She said they can't do nothin about the package stealin because they even put out cameras. I said Well darlin I have been visiting me bf for years now and ain't ever see no camera. If there were I'd have hoped they caught all the gang shoot outs in front of our building and reported it to the police. She said "oh well we took them down because of the expense and it didn't solve the problem". I asked if they ever tried blocking view through the window. She said, "It won't solve anything" so I asked, "have you tried it?" she said "no, but it won't work" I said "I have a friend just a few blocks away under your management and you covered their front windows. That helped significantly"

They ain't never ever had no cameras. What a liar she was. I said I was out front and didn't see no cameras and that concerned my boyfriend quite a bit.. She said oh well we took them down because they didn't solve the problem. I said "I feel it would be less expensive and perhaps easier to use some kind of way to block sight from the inside of the lobby rather than the expense of cameras." She said no it won't work. I asked kindly if they've tried it before. She said no not as far as she's concerned. I said well perhaps it may be worth givin' a go since it won't cost more then $25. I just wanted to help them find a simple solution to a problem my bf and many (pretty dang much every) tenant he and I knows.

Turns out they don't give a fuck about stolen packages! Only that a tenants gf called on his behalf to report theft. They later called my bf and said that I'm "a liability by being left alone in his apartment". Please tell me if I'm wrong but this sounds like retaliation BS. What should he do? Should he do nothing or...? He doesn't have the option of moving just yet because he's part time at a well-paying union job til' he works his way up to full time. He and every other tenant just wants it to be harder for them thieves to see into the building and break the lock yet again. it would even be rad if they made the lock less easy to pry open. the front door is usually broke open when I come visit.

They scarcely replace expensive locks but won't fog windows so none of these asshats can see though to see what they can steal. I feel, and others in his apartment complex feel, that if you cannot see it then you cannot be inspired to steal it. Seems simple to me and him and thems.

Anyway, hope them fuckers enjoy my giant brown cicada plushie my partner bought me for Solstice because I'm bed bound and in near constant pain. He got it for me so I could snuggle it when he couldn't be with me. Also I just love cicadas. Been a comfort of mine since I grown on the northern Appalachia. I'm genuinely sad because he AND i cannot to buy another. I hate being so poor. Christmas was supposed to be happy. I wanted just one gift. But someone stole my giant cicada plushie. FUCKERS. I ain't want for much but that damn plushie was a reminder of my homeland on the Appalachia.

Anyway, it doesn't say anything in the lease agreement about how long a friend can stay or if they can be left alone in the apartment while the renting tenant is gone for a few hours, even to have someone try to secure a package in their absence. Is this illegal in Hennepin County Minneapolis and can they evict over this? Am I considered a liability for staying at his place to secure a package? Nowhere in the lease agreement does it say he has to use a separate address to receive packages. Is this a scare tactic? I fucking hate landlords. he just wants to be able to receive packages at his home here, and I don't believe for a second that his property managers give one single fuck.

Annnnywhoozlwoozles, Any input is excellent unless you're a shit eating rat bastard.