I remember that happening. If memory serves, a father lost his whole family because he went out to grab something from the store for a birthday. when he came back everyone was crushed.
an investigation took place on all the buildings that the property management company owned and it was found half of their properties were in disrepair. one even had a rooftop pool that was leaking down in the parking garage basement. the cracks so big your finger could fit.
personal opinion has no room in the jurisprudence of the law. if laws were broken then then a guilty party must be held culpable.
in a perfect world Bryan Thompson would have been charged and tried for his crimes. unfortunately someone took the law into their own hands because they (rightfully) felt the law was inadequately responding to blatant corruption.
Bryan would be alive today had the laws been enforced as designed.
I lived in a 300sqft apartment in a bad neighborhood. eight women were raped in my parking lot over the span of a year.
along the baseboard of the entire apartment was cat litter from the previous tenant.
the kitchen was painted flat black. the cabinets, the floor, the ceiling, the sink, the counter tops, the walls, the stove. everything. there was a window but it did nothing.
there was one door in the whole apartment, the front door. no door on the bathroom, no door on the bedroom, hell there wasn't even a wall for the bedroom.
the bathroom was 5' 8" tall. I know this because I'm over 6' tall.
the HVAC system never had a filter in it. I know this because to cool my 300sqft it cost me $700 one month and I thought, "no fucking way!" I pulled the side of the blower off and looked up into the a-coil. it was so matted with hair, fur, dust, dirt, it looked like cardboard. it took me four hours and two bottles of bleach spray to clean it with a toilet brush in 100°+ weather.
so to recap on what I did
cleaned the litter up
steamed the carpets twice (probably for the first time ever)
freshly painted the kitchen
refurbished the kitchen cabinets, stove, and sink and made them look brand new
cleaned the HVAC system
installed new insulation in the bathroom so it wasn't 13° in the winter and trimmed it up
installed plug plates because half of them were missing
replaced some of the plugs because they were so worn out they stopped working
now, some of you might say, "you're an idiot because you did all that free work!" and normally you'd be right, but this landlord never answered their phone unless you missed rent.
when I left that fat fuck tried to keep my deposit because I didn't have proof that the carpets were cleaned. Told him they were cleaned, personally by myself with my own equipment. then said there was trash left behind, then explained the furniture left behind was there I moved in. bastard kept half still.
worst apartment I've ever had. I was burned so bad the next place I took pictures of EVERYTHING before a box was moved in. that's a story for another time though.
not all of us enjoy ball torture, but be proud bro.