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?

• 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.

  source
• 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.

  source

  • 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?

    source

    • 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.

      source

      • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Wow, that’s wild to me. Though why not just organize anyways? Like if everyone living in a building got together and for example collectively decided to set up a garbage collection area and everyone who lives there pays like a pittance to rent a punch of garbage cans. Having an organizational like that would be pretty useful even if it has no legal authority it can still do things.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
    • 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.

      source
    • 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.

      source
  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s a condo, not an apartment.

    source
• FelipeFelop@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Must be in the US then.

  source