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These apartments have horrible ventilation.
The only venting to the outside is bathroom air fans and windows/patio doors.
So you can imagine how things could linger and not be allowed to "air out" or not properly attending to things that disperse things in to the air.
As for ac I have cleaned everything myself to make sure it was done properly with bleach and water to rule out anything on our end. We have large "window style" units so their is no duct work to speak of, just drip pans and coils. Their was no water or moister or dampness present in wall cavity where they rest. The units in our space where just dusty from usage, not dirty in any way that would be a health concern.
Another possibility we had thought of was the ac units downstairs being dirty and smelling up the air enough to travel through the walls, but I do not think that could be the case since whoever would be in the environment would be breathing that in everywhere in their living space at a level I'm not sure anyone could manage and besides the units themsleves are off on times we have this coming in to our area.
As I was leaving this morning I caught the office staff posting warnings in our building hallways reminding people these are non smoking buildings. It could just actually be traces of someone's built up smoke finding its way to us from the other side of the building.
If their was notices posted it means their has been complaints by others in our building.
In any event we have someone coming to test for mold in the walls where this issue is present. Our leasing office was hesitant but agreed to allow it when I told them I would pay for it
New tenant was caught allowing friends to use apartment as their own.
Friends where using apartment however and whenever they liked
Friends where smoking inside, burning incense and using vapes for weed smoking.
Tenant has beem given a 3 day eviction, I was not the only one complaining from the looks of it.
I have been away form the apartment for a week but this is the information i came home to from our leasing office
For starters I'll try my best to describe the smell.
Musty and "vapor-like"
I have my theories on what it is but cannot confirm anything (obviously)
The timeline of it starting lines up with a new tenant living below pretty much to the day.
At first it was just a "what the heck smells" issue, but now it has gone to this smell is making me get headaches and have sinus issues as time has progressed onwards and it has persisted.
I have gone to my management office and explained this is more of a health concern for everyone living in our apartment and that its appearance seems to line up with the new tenant below. I also detailed what walls are affected since it is only ever happening in the same areas/outtlets
They more or less handwaved it as nothing and offered to clean our ac units (yah...I have no idea how that related) proceeded to talk around the issue and proceeded to tell me that it was my responcibilty to find the source in the way of "unless you know who is doing it we cant do anything"
I "more or less" told them to treat it seriously and stop talking around the issue I am presenting to them and told them their building was nkt my issue to handle.
It's obvious they do not want to do anything.
Again, I have no idea what this is it could be mold or leaking pipes starting to smell in the summer heat for all i know. I am concerned about the health issues more so than anything. The only reason the new tenant was brought in to this was the timeline matched the issue.
My issue now seems to be an unmotivated leasing office who doesnt want to get involved but is great at offering apologies.
Any suggestions?
I have contimplated contacting the management company who they are under to voice my concerns to
IS THIS SOMETHING THAT COULD BE REPORTED TO EPA? Is it prevelant all the time where law enforcement, fire dept could check it? Do other tenents smell the same odor? Maybe with bedbug problem many cities are having could be the remaining odor left for several days. Keep us posted if you find out.
Basically the horrible smell was just a combination of many different things happening all at once....which is why it was so damn hard to figure out what it may be. We where just getting what could actually find us through the walls.
I never go to the bottom level of our building where they where located so I never noticed the people coming and going.
In talking to someone who lives below on the same floor today they have said their must have been 10 or more people coming and going from that one apartment at all times but they where never noisy or caused issues otherwise.
They complained about the smell along with the others on that floor which is why the notices where posted all over out building at one point.
The leasing office says they where aware of the issue but couldn't talk about it due to the "nature of the eviction"
....why they couldn't tell me not to pay to have mold testing done and avoid the specifics of their tenants is beyond me. I'm a little miffed on how they handled our complaint
Oh well...as long as it stops and stays stopped that's all I really care about
If you're healthy and happy, ignore the smell. They're not going to start tearing open walls to find out what it is.
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