Not quite sure where to put this, so if it gets moved, I understand.

Please beware, this could be triggering!!!!

I’m having a very difficult time holding my tongue with my landlords at the moment. Let me give you a bit of the issue I’m having and then please feel free to comment on your thoughts. Maybe I’m looking at things the wrong way.

I found out 2 weeks ago that the man that moved in with my upstairs neighbor in January is a convicted sex offender. He is listed on the sex offender website with the address where I live. There are 2 apartments here. It does not state what apartment he lives in.

I am in the human service business and I work with developmentally disabled people. I was a home provider to an individual last year and was in the process of having another individual move in. I was even thinking of taking in a child. There is NO WAY on God’s green earth that I could ever put anyone in harms way, especially those folks who cannot protect themselves. That also goes for my grandchild. I can’t even have him here for fear of trouble.

As soon as I found out about this person being a sex offender, I informed my landlord of this. He was absolutely bull**** about this, as the woman upstairs was not forthcoming with that information to him and his wife. He told me when I first spoke to him that he would demand this man (I can think of other names to call him but I won’t) to be out of the apartment that day. He also told me he would call me back after he spoke with the neighbor and let me know how it went. I didn’t hear back until the next day. At that time the landlord said he would be out “this weekend”.

I was not real happy with having him here for another 5 days, but I shut up and dealt with it. So, the weekend comes and goes, and the jerk is STILL HERE!!!! My skin crawls to think of him up there. I hate how I feel. I don’t feel safe in my own home (of which I pay a lot of money to rent).

So, I called the landlord again yesterday. I got no call back. I called again this morning, still I received no call back. Finally I called his wife this afternoon and she told me that he will be out by THIS Friday. I was totally beside myself. I said to her, “Oh, so when the neighbor whines and snivels that he has no place to go, you give him more time???” She was kind of taken aback by that comment and said “Umm, no”.

So, now, I get the impression that my feelings mean absolutely ZILCH when it comes to this situation. He does not pay rent, he is NOT listed on the lease, he doesn’t work, he sits home all day playing video games and stomping all over the apartment to the point of my pictures rattling on the walls and my windows rattling from him stomping. Don’t the landlords have the responsibility of making sure their tenants are safe in their surroundings?? Where is the common sense???

Now, I have to wait another 5 days to see if he actually leaves or not. I’m not impressed, I’m totally ticked off and I feel like a prisoner in my own home. I feel him watching me when I go outside to my car, or when I drive in from work or whenever I’ve been out. He comes out to smoke and stands right by my back door and he can see into my kitchen. It makes my skin crawl and my stomach turn…literally.
So what do you folks think? Am I overreacting? What do I do when Friday comes and he is still here???