My dad works at an apartment complex, and people are always complaining and making lies about the nicest people there.  It might just be teenagers, trying to stir up anger.  Just remember you have a life and they dont.

I haven't lived in anything BUT apartments for the last... uh... *counts* ... 13 years! LOL!

Our current one, we've lived in for just about 10 years... Aug 1 will mark it. We're going to begin house-hunting in February.

We have 8 apartments in the building, and one washer and dryer... thus far, I haven't had a problem. I am starting to wonder if anyone but me actually does laundry. LOL! We did have a tenant a few years ago that would get distracted by shiny things... she once left the washer full of dry, DIRTY clothes. That was a head-scratcher. I removed the clothes with a pair of gloves, put my stuff in, and washed my gloves with my stuff. She was really the only one that was bad about retrieving her stuff.

I sometimes forget for a bit... and if someone needs to take out my stuff to do their stuff, that's fine. I can't imagine running in and screaming at someone who had to handle my things because of my own lack of being able to watch a clock! LOL!

If anything, I'm a note-leaver. One day I came back from the gym, and saw cigarette butts all over the grass in front of our building. Someone recently moved in with a small boy, and she doesn't like to smoke around him, so she sits outside. Honestly, I am fine with it, as long as I don't have to smell it, and there aren't butts everywhere. Well, as soon as I saw those butts all over the grass, I got out my screaming green Post-It and put up a note on the inside of the front door: "Respect Your Neighbors - Clean up the cigarette BUTTS!" About a week later, I went down to do laundry, and saw a big piece of white paper on the inside of the BACK door - "Respect Your Neighbors - Don't Smoke Outside Our Windows!"  It wasn't me!

I'm sure because of the wording, the intended message receiver thinks it WAS me, because she doesn't even LOOK at me, much less talk to me. LOL! I don't care, honestly, because we're moving out sometime in the next year, and she seems like kind of a witch.

So, anyway... about two weeks later, every resident of the building got a letter from the apartment complex, informing us that smoking must be done at least 20 feet from the building, and that cigarette butts are not to be left on the ground outside the building. I'm sure she thinks I am the one that called, too, but it wasn't me!  I'm glad to have a kindred spirit in the building with me, though. I think I know who it was, too, though I never see them.

It's amazing that a building can have 8 apartments, but you never see your neighbors. LOL!

As I said before, I could totally understand and it would be justified if I had left it there, but it was only about a minute after the dryers had stopped!

People just amaze me!

At least I know I'm not alone in the world of rude neighbors.

BTW people, having a house does not mean you will not have issues with the neighbors.  No, the issues will not be over a shared washer and dryer, but they will be over something equally as silly.

aah the days of having to use the coin laundries...i so do not miss those days. my roommate and i would take turns "watching the laundry". i'm not kidding, one of use would sit in the laundry room and read a book or watch the tv while our laundry was going. you had to, if you left your load there, someone would take your washer or dryer. they would just dump your stuff out and put their stuff in. there was even a couple times when someone did that while we were sitting right there. they would open the washer mid spin and start taking our stuff out. i'd yell at them "what are you doing? thats my load! leave it!" and they'd storm off. usually it would be a kid. the parents would send their kids to do the laundry. we lived in a poor ghetto apt complex. we stayed there a year and counted down the days until our lease was up.
we also had two HUGE dogs, a pit mix and a rhodesian ridgeback. our neighbors were terrified of our dogs and would complain all the time to the landlady about them. when we walked them our neighbors would scatter to their apts. which was great because we didn't like them hanging out on the front walk smoking dope anyway.  we took care of the dogs, cleaned up after them and they only barked when some fool would try and break into our apt. the landlady would leave us notes about cleaning up after our dogs when we walked them and all...i told her we do, and we've paid our pet fee and they're staying or we go. she left us alone about it after that. she wanted her rent.
and oh yeah, it doesnt get much better when you get a house...unless your neighbors live REALLY far away...our one neighbor complains about a bush we have in our front yard. we let it grow freely without pruning it much. its a beautiful butterfly bush. and this time of year it's covered in butterflies and hummingbirds. you'd think she'd complain about all our pets, but no, she has it out for this harmless bush.

I was always nervous about leaving laundry in the laundry room when I lived in Tempe.  Some shady people seemed to live in my apartment complex.

In my apartment here in WI......I took my laundry over to my parents' house  

Now that I'm out of apartment living and into mobile home living, I've had good luck with my neighbors so far.  All very friendly and into Friday evening cocktails on the patios 

Why would someone steal an entire load of laundry?

So true... but, at least they're not rifling through my underwear, smoking on my front steps, or yelling in my hallways. LOL! Good fences make good neighbors.

Or... RIDING MY BIKE! We came home from a trip once to find the kids in our building riding MY bike around the parking lot, because theirs had all been stolen or broken from their own carelessness. The boiler room downstairs is for bikes, and we never had a problem before -- but, we also never had tweens living in the building before. You can bet we locked our bikes together after that incident.

You're definitely not weird -- that's pretty much why I'm peeved too!  People I don't know putting their grubby hands all over my underwear. Not to mention, I paid for that 45 minutes of drying time, and I expect my 45 minutes. You don't just take stuff out early. You're essentially stealing their money when you do that.

We've been living here over a year and a half, and have only had one other problem like this (with the same two girls) about a year ago. We were in the same situation, but we caught them doing it and my boyfriend told them to leave our stuff alone. Haven't heard or seen them until now!

The complex we're in (and moving out of at the end of the month!) has probably 200 units.  Their on-site "laundry room" has two washers and two dryers.  They're even the smaller "apartment-sized" ones, not the big ones.  They are constantly full of wet laundry that will sit in the washer for hours since the people don't come back for it when they should.  We go to the laundromat instead.  It is annoying to have to haul the stuff that far, but otherwise it would never get washed.  I take a book and stay with it the whole time it is washing and drying.  The guy who owns the place does laundry (he weighs it and you pay by the pound), but I can't handle the thought of somebody else touching my underwear. 

Gosh, you people make it sound like the others are fondly your undies.  I am guessing they grab all the clothes in one big glob and toss them on the table, no real under garment playing with involved.


Suebee, house neighbor problems can far outweigh those listed.  Partially because when you own your own house you feel a certain right to being to enjoy all of your own property, it is not quite that easy though.