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grandlewis t1_iywqe6b wrote

10K apartment dwellers to feel safe again now that random new strangers aren’t staying next door to them 365 days a year.

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DeathPercept10n t1_iyx2ggw wrote

Seriously though. A few years ago our neighbours at the time used to do this all the time. One night my gf comes home late and I'm already asleep. She wakes me up cuz she smells a strong gas smell in the hallway. We tried banging on the door but no answer. We called Con Ed and they sent the fire department immediately. They busted down the door and these idiots were passed out drunk with the stove on but no flame. If there was any spark before they came we'd all have died. Thank God those idiot neighbours moved away and now there's been no more random people jeopardizing our home.

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JustHereToLurk247 t1_iyxcg2u wrote

A similar thing happened to us! We smelled gas really strongly, my husband ran downstairs to the airbnb unit, banged on the door and helped the guests turn off the gas. They didn’t know they left it on. It could have been bad.

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ambiensmachete t1_iyxnvmf wrote

Me as well!! Do people staying in airbnbs just not know how gas stoves work???

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grandlewis t1_iyy67xg wrote

Yes. Many of them are from different countries, and different cultures, and they have no idea what they are doing. Many of them can barely read English and don’t fully understand the instructions from their “hosts”. Hotels are completely set up to deal with this, apartments in the middle of a residential building, in the middle of a residential block, are not.

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keepmoving2 t1_iyyq4x1 wrote

My landlord used to rent out his downstairs unit but tourists kept coming upstairs to our door and trying to unlock it for some reason. I think it has to do with how Europeans have the 2nd floor as Floor 1.

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manticorpse t1_iz0r22u wrote

God, that would give me such bad anxiety.

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ChicNoir t1_iz9en38 wrote

OMG same. Would make me ultra paranoid to leave my home as well.

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