Comment on I have an apartment where the dumpster is a car's drive away, and taking trash down involves 4 staircases. What is the best way to ameliorate this situation?

• m_r_butts@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You don't. That's wholly at the discretion of whatever investment firm owns your apartment complex. I've never lived in an apartment that worked any other way.

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  • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh wow, that sucks. I’m pretty sure an apartment union is a requirement here and I have never had a different experience either. Like we have a general trash area in front of the apartment building, like 4 trashcans for different kind of trash with a tiny building around it that’s maintained by the union and the trash there gets emptied once a week.

    I guess it’s good to say where you are if asking for advice.

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  • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They might be under the impression that people are buying these apartments instead of renting them, and then there’s some sort of HOA that covers those things.

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    • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It doesn’t matter if you buy or rent. At least here you always have an apartment union that all residents are a part of, it’s required. Like if you want a water filter installed to the general water intake or want a bike rack in front of the building you ask the union and they bring it up during a meeting so if the budget allows for it they’ll put it on a vote. Like how else would you get like a bike rack or a garden for your building?

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      • mark3748@geddit.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Like how else would you get like a bike rack or a garden for your building?

        You ask the owner, and then accept it will never happen.

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      • FelipeFelop@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think they are in the US. It operates without the sort of protections that most of the world has.

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      • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There is no such standard or organization in the US for people who rent. People are free to form their own groups, but they would hold no legal power.

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    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s a condo, not an apartment.

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  • FelipeFelop@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Must be in the US then.

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• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You don’t. All of that is at the sole discretion of the management company that owns your complex. You have very little say in what the actual complex looks like, or what kinds of amenities it has. Your only real recourse is to break your lease (which can often cost 3-5x your monthly rent) and move to a different complex with the amenities you want.

  Welcome to America. Where tenant rights are nearly non-existent and everyone is anti-union because of literal generations of propaganda.

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