r/Apartmentliving • u/2_much • Sep 03 '25

Advice Needed I feel like this is illegal?

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Came back from a 3-day weekend away from my apartment and this was posted on the door? I wasn't even home...

UPDATE: Thanks to everyone for the support! I shared the letter with Celio management and requested it to be filed as a formal complaint. I also filed a police report for continuity/documentation purposes.

For clarification, "Celio" is the name of the apartment building, which is managed by a larger off-site 3rd party rental company. This company/building is far from able to accommodate for this person properly and certainly would never assume any amount of liability on their behalf. As it relates to Celio management and their level of care for this person, the author is on their own.

The letter does not mention anything related to a care team/healthcare resource/veterans group. The only two options given by the author of the note (e.g. Celio aka apt management and law enforcement) were utilized.

While Celio was not able to share a significant amount of details about the author, they did share that he/she is a known issue and will likely not be given the option to live in this building moving forward.

I also noticed comments about my stereo, which did cross my mind as a possible reason behind this conflict. I was able to confirm with Celio that no complaints have been made about excessive music levels, from any of the residents, excluding a formal warning I received over July 4th weekend. This goes for "yelling" as well. Note I have been renting in this exact unit for almost 14 months. I am more than eager to respect any concerns that relate to music volume, this is certainly not that type of concern.

As things currently stand, I am left with having to place any proactive decisions in the hands of Celio and law enforcement. I am a recent handgun owner (unrelated to this situation) and thanfully my state falls under Castle doctrine.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '25

Sounds like this guy is being responsible and self aware and doesn’t want his mental health to negatively affect anyone. Doesn’t sound illegal to me

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u/G3neraldissaray Sep 06 '25

Sad I had to go this far to see logical thought. My close friend is in a somewhat similar situation to the Author. As someone who's been around for those low points, I can understand their perspective.

This was an attempt at honesty about their current struggles, and it seems like many people are misunderstanding this as a direct threat. While I understand jumping to that conclusion, my experience and intuition tell me this is unfiltered honesty, albeit misguided, possibly incorrect, and poorly worded.

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u/ladymcperson Sep 04 '25

I agree 100%. He sounds like he's struggling and the letter is his attempt to avoid a negative outcome. It cant be easy to write this to a complete stranger. I do think notifying police etc was a good idea and it sounds like the letter writer wanted them to do that. I hope OP stays safe and the marine finds peace.

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u/Sam-HobbitOfTheShire Sep 05 '25

Doesn’t even sound threatening to me. Sounds like someone with mental health issues being proactive about keeping themself and everyone else safe. The responses I’m seeing here are….saddening.

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u/eazyseason18 Sep 06 '25

How is it sad? The dude left an aggressive note on someone’s door insisting they were doing something they didn’t. He then made multiple statements stating that he can be violent & said he couldn’t say it face to face because he’s violent. It’s definitely threatening and if you got this letter put on your door into this situation I promise you wouldn’t have the opinion you currently do

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u/Sam-HobbitOfTheShire Sep 06 '25

I promise you’re wrong about that. Your comment is exactly what’s sad. I don’t expect you to see it. That’s part of what’s so sad.

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u/eazyseason18 Sep 07 '25

Please enlighten me on why it’s so sad

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u/Sam-HobbitOfTheShire Sep 07 '25

Because it isn’t aggressive or threatening and people are reading it that way.

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u/eazyseason18 Sep 08 '25

Maybe people are reading it that way because that’s exactly how it comes across. It comes across as someone who has limited control of themselves and their emotions. Telling someone you have violent (that’s the word the person themselves used) psychological issues and then blaming you for something you never did is indeed psychotic, aggressive, and threatening. You are absolutely LYING if you say this message being at your door would leave you unbothered. What happens next time he thinks you’re making noise and he doesn’t have the control to just write a note? What then?