Governor Lee, are you doing anything actively or have a plan in place right now to bring down the crime that is ever increasing in our state of TN, especially the Middle TN area? While you are pursuing the grand plans of building your new stadium in Nashville crime is getting way out of hand here. This is pathetic. While shopping at Dillard's yesterday I happened to hear this from the salesperson helping me about a shooting that took place around 3:00AM down the street from Dillard's in the community in which I reside in. What are you doing about this? Your radio ads talk everything about family and quite frankly I find myself saying to myself when I hear your commercials that you are not being truthful. Families of these shooting victims are being contacted about a child being a victim of a shooting or even worse their child was killed in a violent shooting. Instead of promoting an arena how about promoting a plan to bring safety and order back to our communities in TN.
I keep searching for another community hopefully to move to because crime is ever increasing where I reside now. Are you aware that I called the non-emergency police phone number 2 Saturday nights in a row because of out-of-control noise problem by the community grilling area. Apparently, the Venezuelan's like to gather there and have their own party. Loud music and loud speaking that disturbs the residents in the surrounding buildings. We pay a high premium to live here and still have to put up with rudeness and non-speaking English parties. See, if they do not speak English then how do we English speaking residents even know what they are talking about. Are you doing anything about illegals busting through our borders and then resettling to TN neighborhoods? I was on the phone last night with my niece and was telling her about their parties. I walked out on my patio to let her hear what I am talking about. She heard the noise from my patio when I held my phone up. This nonsense needs to stop. We should not have to be calling the non-emergency police number to break up loud parties when they are dealing with much more serious crime overtaking our community. This uptick in crime dear Sir is under your watch as Governor of TN. What have you done to prevent any of this crime increase the 4 years you were governor? Looks like it kept increasing under your watchful eyes as governor.
How do I know they are from Venezuela? I got bold last weekend and asked one of the neighbors living right behind my unit how many people are living in their apartment? This younger in aged man spoke broken English so I was able to carry on a conversation with him. He responded 4 people, and I said no there are always different people coming and going from that apartment all the time and I asked him if each one of them are getting background checks on them like the rest of us have to do? I don't think he understood that question I asked. At one time there were 2 male adults, a woman and 2 male maybe middle school aged people living in that apartment. TN law allows 2 people per number of bedrooms. 5 does not equal 4 allotted for a 2-bedroom apartment. I got even bolder and just came out and asked if they came illegally across our southern borders into our country. He told me no that they flew here and began to show me his ID card and said he had papers if I wanted to see them. I declined that offer. And then shared how 3 of my grandparents immigrated here from Eastern Europe and came in on a boat. If they were sick or had criminal records, they would have been sent back on the boat to where the originating country they came from. I inquired about hearing Venezuela has a bad government and he said it is bad. He said his father leased the apartment and they were moving last weekend to a home the father found for them. I felt a little bad then judging them and welcomed them to America. This young man shared how he is learning electrical as a trade and will soon become an apprentice in that trade. I mentioned the IBEW and if he was familiar with that he was not. That is the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
There is more to this story, I actually baked brownies that early evening to give to them the next day and was going to give them a holy family Christmas scene on wood plaque for their new home until ... that night the people associated with that very apartment had their loud, unruly grilling area party and the police were called well after 10:00PM to get them to settle down with the noise. The police did come just like they came last night to break up their revelry. If you are going to come to America, then assimilate to our ways and not try to force your ways on us. Once again, Governor Bill Lee what are you doing about all of this? Oh 1 more thing, I thought I was told they were moving out of the apartment to a house, right? Friday night someone was back in the apartment and apparently filled a big mattress box with garbage and left it at our compactor. I saw one of the maintenance workers yesterday morning bringing that very box and placing it right back by their door with a written note on the box that you have to break down the box and then place in the compactor. I guess the residents took it back to the compactor not following the printed explicit instructions and once again I found maintenance bringing it back to their apartment. The leasing office was not aware of the tenants moving out when I shared that with them and was told it is here say with me telling them what one of the residents said. They have to receive the moving out notice from the tenant. So, a father rents a unit but does not live in the unit. I am telling you something is not kosher here with this story.
I actually went into the leasing office to inquire again where is my current water bill. The company we pay our water bill is a 3rd party and they only generate water bills from the information given to them from the property owner. So, as far as I can see we will now be 2 actual months of water bills behind because no bills are being generated. I like paying my bills on time and I budget to make sure I have the funds to cover the water bill. I'm probably looking at some time a cumulative bill of about 2 months' worth of water consumption. I contacted the water utility to see if I could pay them and that is not an option. They read the individual apartment meters as a building then bill the owners and then in turn bill the residents. There is a definite disconnect somewhere in this situation do you agree. I then asked if it was ok for me too just let family members move into my apartment and they don't have to have background checks done on them, but they could help pay rent and people could just come and go all the time. I was trying to make a point in my inquiry to see if it is allowed for some residents and not for others. I was told the background checks are only done initially to the people moving in on the lease and it is basically checked to see if there were any assault records showing. You would think that today an extensive background check would be done to know that the residents of a community are potentially safe. Let me tell you this, if I was to oversee and run this leasing office it would take about a week or month or so for me to clean up the messes being made by this leasing office. Taking a beautiful piece of property and running it into the ground so to speak because they are only concerned with filling apartments and collecting rent.
I did a little research because I tend to be a problem solver. This is what I found out. Contacting the local BBB (Better Business Bureau) and file a complaint in regard to not receiving our water bills. The website says if it meets the complaint criteria a complaint will be sent to the business within approximately 2 business days. The business is asked to respond within 14 calendar days. The person filing the complaint will be notified of the business' response or even if they do not respond at all. Complaints are closed within 30 days.
One more thought Governor Bill Lee. Since TN has surplus in our budget then why are you not giving residents of TN some sort of stimulus money like other states in the USA are doing? Just a woman expressing her concerns and thinking out loud again. Gee, I wonder if other residents of TN are thinking along these same lines too?
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