Reflecting on Those Days as a Community Manager

The memories never go away as long as there are apartment buildings.  The thoughts come to mind every now and then when as a leasing professional or community manager you helped this resident and that one with a lock out issue, another with a rent concern, and others with work orders, noisy neighbors and more.  I will never forget the young man who took a bad drug that left him stark-naked running around our faux plants in the lobby area.  He ran and screamed while the police officer chased him.  The following week an older man strolled down the hallway in his underwear after taking the same drug as well.  Along with roaches, we had to exterminate a drug dealer on the property.  Oh, those were the days.

Nicholl McGuire is the author of When Mothers Cry, Laboring to Love Myself, Tell Me Mother You're Sorry as well as other books.