Apartment Manager Adventures

Recently, I was woken up on a Saturday morning at 5:00 AM to someone using the door buzzer in the entryway. The buzzer is very loud and whenever I am woken by it, it always makes my heart race. I jumped out of bed and quickly turned on the TV to check the security camera. No one was there..

My first thought was, oh well, no one is there, go back to bed. I condisdered it for a moment, but then decided that I better go check the building to make sure everything is okay.

I got dressed, grabbed my trusty maglight flashlight (always a good thing in case you need to use it for protection) and started checking the building to see if someone was hanging around in the common areas.

First place I checked was the basement. Its usually always the first place I check. Nothing there. So I started making my way up the different floors of the building. And when I reached the third floor, I found the person that had buzzed my apartment.

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One day, while my wife and I were on our way out the door to go shopping, I heard a faint high pitch noise coming from inside the building. I didn’t think much of the noise at the time, but after a few hours of shopping, I noticed the noise was still there when we returned home. 

After unpacking our groceries, I walked through the building to investigate the noise. After a few brief minutes, I discovered which apartment the noise was coming from. Our apartment is on the first floor, and the one making the noise was all the way up on the third floor. I listened at the door and could hear the high pitch noise ringing loud. I could also hear a strange popping noise.

I knocked on the door… - No answer. I knocked louder… -Again, no answer. I then pounded the door so hard it felt like I was going to knock it off its hinges. I heard someone stirring inside. Now I’ve seen a lot of weird and unexpected things being an apartment manager, but I could not have guessed what I was about to see.

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One of the interesting parts of having your own website is having the opportunity to figure out how people are finding your website. There are a number of tools you can use to try to better understand the people that are reading your site and by better understanding your audience, you can improve your website and make it more valuable to the people that read it.

One of the tools I use is a search engine report. This basically shows me what words or phrases people are using in search engines when they find this website. Sometimes the queries make complete sense (”Funny Apartment Stories”), and sometimes I have no idea how a particular search term could be associated with my site (”Flaming bag of poop”)

So, I thought it might be kind of funny and interesting for you to see the last several months search terms that people have used to find the site. Who knows, maybe you will see the very phrase you used to find the site listed below.

Hit the link below to see the list, and leave us a comment telling us how you found http://www.apartmentmanageradventures.com


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