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Tenant Meeting April 25, 2012

The main topic today was bedbugs the Super had a presentation all set up about these nasty creatures and I could tell most of the tenants felt uncomfortable. I feel this is an issue that needed to be told, education and providing information is the only way to win the war over these creepy crawly bugs and another tenant complained ants are attacking her unit.
 I attended the meeting because I had a few issues to address one is "inspection overkill" especially mine. When I asked the Super the response was “to cut down on work order requests I’m doing seasonal inspections” the funny thing is I've never handed in a work order since I've been here. :P  I can understand one annual inspection for all units but for fuck sakes! do we really need one for fire, A/C, pest control and heating and other all at different dates. I value my privacy and it seems to me UNH’s doesn’t give a shit that we tenants are being inconvenienced by having to move our furniture and belongings to accommodate these blasted inspections.  Perhaps we should just open our doors permanently and let staff walk in whenever they want to.:P  You know there was a time when UHN's entered units without proper 24 hour advanced notice, thanks to this blog they don't dare do that anymore...at least not in my unit. 
Little Debbie came up with a wonderful suggestion in honoring the tenants who passed on and wouldn’t you know it Ingrid N. came up with opposition. 
Where there any surprises at the meeting!...yep I found out the driver guy is more then a chauffeur he's also Big Brother. ;)

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