Woman was alarmed by neighbor's unsettling note about cameras facing her apartment — who they were actually watching stopped her cold
It isn’t always the things we see that scare us, but sometimes, it’s the warnings we don’t expect. Something very similar happened with a woman who had recently moved into a new apartment with her boyfriend. She noticed her neighbor had installed a camera facing her home, which left her creeped out. Sharing the incident on Reddit under the handle u/Alixxonx, the woman explained that days after moving into their new apartment, her boyfriend found a note outside their home, warning them about a maintenance guy. It also informed them about a camera facing their window. The post has received over 16 thousand upvotes.
The user recalled that on the day she moved in, she had parked in a reserved spot unknowingly. A neighbor stopped by her apartment and politely asked her to move her car to vacate it for the person who had paid for the spot. After a few days, they discovered the note that made her feel unsettled. It read: “I have my camera in my window, not to creep you out. We’ve been having ongoing problems with the maintenance guy. Keep your girl away from him!” Initially, they assumed it was from the nice neighbor who had talked to them about the parking. The user wrote, “I am not at all worried about the camera that they have in their window, since I wouldn’t be indecent when walking outside. But, I’m more weirded out by the ‘we’ve had ongoing problems with the maintenance guy. Keep your girl away from him.'"
She clarified that she was more concerned about "the lack of detail on what I should look out for." She and her partner have taken precautions, she further added, saying, "If there is any work that needs to be done, I want at least one of us home when the work is being done." She also mentioned that she had bought a camera to put in their bedroom window since it would “be able to see the back door that leads to the parking lot.” Hearing her story, several people on Reddit resonated with her experience, with many suggesting she stay cautious.
u/CaraAsha recounted, “I've had a maintenance guy who was notorious for 'haunting' apartments with attractive women.” Another person, u/JewelJellyParfait, expressed, “That was how I interpreted the note, too. She wanted to mention the camera so the original poster knows it’s not there for malicious reasons.” u/boredcamp revealed that she, too, got a camera installed because of her maintenance guy, and said, “I submitted a ticket for my smoke detector battery. He entered my apartment, left the door unlocked, came back an hour later, then closed my ticket without doing anything."
In the same post, the woman updated that both of them are familiar with handling firearms as they come from a military background. She is also confident that her intimidating personality might help her scare the creepy maintenance man away if he finds her alone in the apartment.