On 2/4/2021 7:18 AM, Gary wrote:
> Taxed and Spent wrote:
>> But how long will that neighborhood remain decent?
>
> Even many bad neighborhoods can appear nice and friendly during the
> daytime. Best to take a drive through there in the evening or at night.
>
> The trouble makers tend to sleep all day, then stay out all night.
>
>
That is so true. I leased an apartment in an area of Memphis that
started out just fine. I'd been living there about five years when one
Saturday I noticed the woman who lived across the hall with her teenage
son had backed up a truck and they moved out very quickly. The next day
(I remember because it was Easter) I heard a commotion outside. Looked
through the peep-hole in the kitchen door and there were three teens
banging on the door and then they kicked the door in! I made sure my
door was locked and chained then went to my bedroom and called the
police. They arrived quickly and arrested the youths. From what the
police told me afterwards, the woman's teenage son had gotten involved
with some drug dealers and owed them money; these thugs had come to collect.

Things went downhill from there. Management didn't seem to care who
they were renting to anymore. The next people who moved in across the
hall WERE drug dealers. People coming and going at all hours of the day
and night. One evening I was sitting on the balcony after work,
reading, when the one of the new 20-somethings across the hall came
outside to sit on their balcony. He was very proud of his gun.

I called the cops about that, too. I was told by a detective in the
Narcotics squad they were already keeping an eye on those new neighbors.

I immediately started looking for another apartment far away from that
neighborhood and moved as soon as my lease was up.

Jill