What to do when new neighbor leaves weird stain in front of my apartment, & throws trash downstairs? (apartments, poor)

[pacman23]

My new neighbor moved in like a couple weeks ago. Our apartments are opposite each other. We live on the 2nd floor. This afternoon, I see a huge, gross-looking, damp stain, on the concrete hallway, in front of my door extending all the way to his.

There was some disgusting looking wet trash right in front of his door like brown, wet lumps of thick cloth or paper. Ugh.

Then I go out and come back after a couple of hours. I see that same yucky trash lump, now in front of the first floor neighbor's apartment. It was dried out by now. This told me that my neighbor had thrown it over the railing down to the 1st floor soon after I left.

So: do you guys have any suggestions? I don't want to create any weird drama between me and new neighbor. I don't want to get into some ugly dispute. But I am really grossed out and angered by this stain. And I want this kind of disgusting behavior to get nipped in the bud before the guy gets comfortable with repeating it.

Any thoughts?

[ShaneSA]

Take pictures and show them to the management. Do not give the pictures to the management. Keep the pictures but show them and keep them yourself. Your phone or camera should date stamp them. keep taking pictures and show them to managment until the behavior stops. that keeps you anonymous and keeping the pictures will help prove your point.

[tilli]

If you don't want to "create any weird drama" with your neighbor, don't start petty disputes with them over minor issues like a damp spot on the concrete with a few lumps of wet paper.

[pacman23]

Originally Posted by tilli

If you don't want to "create any weird drama" with your neighbor, don't start petty disputes with them over minor issues like a damp spot on the concrete with a few lumps of wet paper.

Uh this is no damp spot. That's why I'm so PO'ed. This is a long, wide, brown stain, from some huge garbage spill that stretches all across the hallway from their door to mine. And it is exactly the same as yesterday. The concrete is now permanently marked with whatever it was. This is not plain water: it's something else entirely.

And what I thought was wet paper last night under poor light could be something else entirely. Whatever it is, it's brown, thick, heavy, lumpy and completely unrecognizable. And the neighbors found it so gross that they simply swept it over the second floor edge down to the first floor hallway, instead of picking it up and putting it in a trash can.

[pacman23]

Originally Posted by ShaneSA

Take pictures and show them to the management. Do not give the pictures to the management. Keep the pictures but show them and keep them yourself. Your phone or camera should date stamp them. keep taking pictures and show them to managment until the behavior stops. that keeps you anonymous and keeping the pictures will help prove your point.

Hmm, that's interesting. Yeah I do want to take pics. A little call to management about all this might be in order.

[WannaliveinGreenville]

It could be remnants of a dead body or he is cooking drugs in his apartment ?

Okay ! A little far stretched but keep an eye out and take pics that you keep yourself....

[Kim in FL]

why not grab a bottle of lysol spray and some paper towels and clean it up?

I clean my walkway every couple of weeks..I can't stand my front door area to look dirty and unkept. It takes about 10 mins to spray, wipe and move on. Not a biggie.