Getting management on your side is the other factor. It's not easy to evict in California. California law tends to side with the tenant and building owners must build a case, which takes time and effort. In my situation, I think the amount of time and effort already expended by the manager is less than what it would take to evict. The scale has finally tipped in my favor. We're all tired of dealing with these people.
I think it's promising that your management is keeping written complaints. Have others lodged complaints, too? Do you know if noise is the only issue or if they're often late in their rent? Your management may not really care, unfortunately, whether you're happy or not, but I bet they care greatly whether they get their money.
I think Arizona law sides with the landlord. My previous apartment, the one where I suffered the burglary, was awful in every way. The landlords were a couple in their 80s and they were like having meddling in-laws.
The apartment complex where I now live is pretty good, not great. It's the old saying that you get what you pay for. It's what I can afford. Yes, they do get testy with tenants if they don't pay by the 4
th of the month.
The main problem I see, and this is what I've deduced from observation and talks with the main front office person, the tenant and whoever this girlfriend he has and whether she is legally on their lease agreement, he is not really the lease holder. He is an undergraduate at the University of Arizona. He has a part time job as a server in a restaurant, as does his girlfriend. There is no way that he could afford rent, etc. on that salary and have a brand new Nissan and all brand new furnishings. My belief is that he has been a spoiled brat all of his life, and somehow his family thought it better he not live at home due to his behavior. He is so pampered that his girlfriend cleans the apartment. He doesn't even wash his own clothes. There is a laundry just across from my building that is offered by the building management for those apartments that do not have their own washer/dryer, as mine does not. His does not either as it is a Xerox copy of my apartment. His family must live close by and it appears that he takes his clothes home to have them washed. There's much more that I've deduced and I could go on. In sum, he's a spoiled kid and needs to be knocked down a notch or three. One of my biggest pet peeves is people who are arrogant and have no right to assume that status. To put this in the street vernacular, this kid doesn't think his [bleep] stinks.
