The upstairs apartment has been converted into 2 single rooms, sharing a bathroom and kitchen.
The landlord thought that this would be the best way to make more money: renting to what he thought would be students from VCC. Unfortunately, very few people want to share a bathroom and kitchen with someone who isn't a roommate, unless they are quite poor and desperate. Thus, our new neighbours.
One is a 50-yr old woman who has confessed to having post-traumatic stress disorder. This causes her to pound on the floor and walls at all hours of the day, yelling "Oh no, Oh no, help me help me, not again, not again!" The first time I heard this, I figured she was being raped and/or attacked so I pounded on her door. She informed me that, in fact, she was simply
reliving being raped and/or attacked and that this happens to her often. I was urged to simply ignore the outbursts.
The other woman is in her teens, probably a runaway, who has already decided to move out because she can't handle living across the hall from a screaming woman. The landlord has already interviewed a new tenant: a sketchy looking dude in his 40s who didn't look like he bathed much. I called the landlord afterwards and suggested that this man may rape and/or attack the woman and that it maybe best to rent to women only. He agreed.
What to do? Our rent is good and we are so close to everything. But the occasional gunshot in the park, the upstairs neighbours and the bizarre landlord has made us re-consider living here. Oh well.
