A rock and a hard place...

It's 4:30 AM. I can't sleep due to an adrenaline high. Why? Some half-naked chick was breaking stuff and running around the building screaming like a demon. My husband got to deal with it while I called the police. A friend of the problem tenant downstairs. Both of them were on shrooms. I know that we have to evict her, but I feel bad. She's a nice girl who makes very bad decisions. It's hard to have hope for her. I don't foresee a good future. Are we making things better, worse or no different by kicking her out? I think we would be enabling her if we let her stay. Aside from that, I don't think the other tenants would feel secure AND there may be liability issues if we don't evict her and something serious happens. Well, I am no longer shaking. I need to go entertain her kitten (who is running around my house). She's off at her former foster mom's coming down. I felt really bad putting the kitty back downstairs with all the broken glass. And he's pretty cute. Is that enabling? Or just compassion for the cat?

The Laundry Nazi

That would be me. I am feeling torn right now. It is midnight. The laundry room hours are 8 AM - 11 PM. I heard somebody tiptoe down to the laundry room and then loudly turn on the and machine run! This whole caretaker thing is frustrating. I'm not about to repeal the laundry room hours(since it IS right below our bedroom). I am tempted to just go and shut it off. A consequence of their breaking the rules. Except it doesn't really happen often. And the laundry machines WERE busy all day today. But still, they're like children (tenants). It's all about discipline. Plus, we just gave one of the tenants a warning telling her she was going to be evicted if she broke the no noise after 11 PM rule again. It's one of those things, once in a while is OK... 5 days a week is not!(We didn't even get to the unspoken don't-repackage-illegal-drugs-in-the-building rule with her). How can I enforce those rules, but not the laundry room ones? I don't know, but here I sit, typing away, debating. Wow, they are in the room right now, I can hear them below me. As I type this, do I dare go? I can think of thousand good reasons not to let people run the machines past 12. Especially the ones involving flooding and fire. *SIGH* What's a girl to do? Pretend she never heard it, I suppose.

Shady past...

I never thought I'd say this but, thank God (yes literally), for my hubby's "shady" (lol) past. I bring him suspicious looking paraphernalia that I found on the lawn and he informs me that someone in the building is "manufacturing". Don't think I can go into any more detail. This should be fun to deal with... I'm OK with "dealing" with it. There's something about being woken up at 4 AM (today being an excellent example) that makes me rather grouchy and unforgiving.