Hobo Hotel

Back in September, Tim picked me up from work and said, "Do you want to move next week??" He had found us a resident managing job and we would be moving into an apartment building just off 16th ave and across from SAIT. Resident managing is just living in an apartment building and you are expected to mow the lawn, shovel the walk, vacuum the hallways, call the plumber if he is needed, etc. and the best part is FREE RENT. So we moved to this lovely new building. Things started out well. We met some nice tenants and we thought.. How bad could this be but as everyone knows there is ALWAYS a catch! When taking the job they told us that the tenants in the building are part of the Calgary homeless foundation. They ensured us that the tenants had to go through a screening process and most of them would be women. Naive Tim and I thought, "OK, we can do this." Little did we know we had many surprises in store.
Although many tenants gave us a headache some were just so pleasant and I am glad the good tenants were able to be helped in getting back on their feet.
A list of our encounters include:
- People buzzing tenants until they were let in and then would sleep in the laundry room or hallways
- Knife fight (we missed it! We were in Utah while that went down.)
- Multiple occurences of drunk and disorderly conduct
- Drug deals
- Tenants fighting amongst eachother and then smashing the other persons phone into pieces!
- And lastly and best of all- Finding a dead lady! Please ask me about it next time we are together. It is a gooder.
All in all, we tried! But we were calling the cops bi-weekly and tim was having a hard time writing a test or midterms the next day after dealing with issues all night.
We learned a lot and have a new appreciation for pretty much everything. We love our new place and are really enjoying the luxury of two bedrooms!! We also really appreciate all of our friends for helping us one more time and if I become ambitious I will post some pictures of the place, after I get it cleaned up and hopefully a post will be up soon about the vegas!