She Found Out That A Guy Was Coming Into Her Apartment, Sometimes When She Was Home Too, And She Has No Idea How Many Times This Creep Did This

Moving into a new apartment is always a thrilling experience. Of course, it’s great when there is friendly staff in the apartment building to help make your time there comfortable. But sometimes, tenants get stuck with some not-so-great people in their building.
One woman recently shared a story about a sketchy set of apartment staff that makes us want to purchase a backup lock for our doors.
As soon as she could live on her own, she rented an apartment at a complex called “Paradise Apartments.”
It was in her price range, and she had her eye on the building for some time. Sadly, once she moved in, she realized the apartment wasn’t as great as she had hoped it would be.
Some of the issues included plumbing problems and thin walls. Little did she know that those things would be the least of her worries with her new apartment.
When she lived in Paradise Apartments, she was a college student who primarily took classes online.
She described herself as a homebody and would only leave her apartment for one in-person class to go shopping and visit her boyfriend.
“My apartment was a bit of a Bermuda Triangle,” she explains. “Even though it was only 600 square feet and I lived alone, things had a way of growing legs and walking away.”
She had two kittens at the time, which she would often blame for moving little things around her apartment, but there was one particular item that would have been impossible for a kitten to move.

racool_studio – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
On days when she would come home from her in-person class, she often noticed that the box she kept her underwear in would be sitting in the middle of her bedroom floor.
“I always could have sworn I’d put the underwear box away after getting ready for class, but I chalked it up to me forgetting as a result of having to get up early and being focused on getting to class on time,” she recalls.
However, things continued to get even stranger in her apartment. Articles of clothing would go missing entirely.
One day, when she went to her boyfriend’s apartment to quickly help him with something, she had intentionally left all of her lights on.
When she returned, every single light had been turned off. Even the heat lamp she kept above her pet lizard’s habitat was turned off, which she kept on 24/7. Her laptop that she left open had also been turned off and shut.
At first, she thought something had happened with her apartment’s electricity, but when she flipped the switch for the main light in the apartment, it turned on. It then became clear to her that someone had been in her apartment.
When she called her building’s emergency maintenance number to tell them that someone with a key to her apartment had been inside without her permission, the building manager accused her of “imagining things.”
They even suggested that someone she had given her keys to was playing a prank on her. However, the only other people who had her key were her boyfriend and mother, who she knows certainly did not enter her apartment at that time.
Her manager finally agreed to change her front door locks to give her “peace of mind.”Although he tried to assure her that the staff’s keys to every apartment were locked in a safe space surrounded by security cameras, she was still skeptical.
Then, after thinking about who in the building may have a key to her apartment, she remembered one maintenance man who had a bad habit of entering her place at bad times.
“One day, I was sitting in my living room, and this scruffy maintenance guy walked in without knocking or announcing himself,” she remembers. “I hadn’t received a notice to expect him.”
Another time he tried coming in was right after she had gotten out of the shower. Once he knocked, she asked him to wait a moment while she changed into some clothes. Yet he claimed he didn’t hear her, so he let himself in any way.
After those incidents, she told her building manager that she needed a 24-hour notice before any maintenance people entered her apartment and wanted to be present for every entry.
“Now that I knew without a shadow of a doubt that someone was coming in secretly, it all made sense,” she explains. “It hadn’t been long after the surprise maintenance visits stopped that things had started moving around in my apartment.”
How freaky is that?
Thankfully, she purchased a condo after subleasing that sketchy apartment and moved out. Her mom came into town to help her move her things into her new place. One day, while her mom was in the apartment by herself, she caught the creepy maintenance man trying to get his key into her new lock. There was no 24-hour notice and no valid reason for him to enter her apartment. It was the perfect indicator that she needed to get out of there as soon as possible!
After moving away from Paradise Apartments, she went on to become a leasing agent. She learned through her experience that most apartment building owners will not automatically change apartment locks between tenants to save money and that keys were often handed out to random employees and vendors.
So for those getting ready to sign a lease on an apartment, remember to make sure you’re paying attention to safety!
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