Why the serial litterbug in your building may cost you money
Problematic tenants will become a nuisance to their neighbors
Ginormous Walmart box addressed to someone on the next block. Four face masks buried in the dirt near a dental office. A party platter of cupcakes and brownies that birds surrounded in a front lawn. A restaurant takeout container near a curb, with an empty bottle rolling back and forth next to it. A big chunk of weave bouncing around like tumbleweed. And the RCN postcard torn to pieces and spread out all over another lawn like confetti.
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I have never paid more attention to litter than I have since becoming a dog owner. While I nodded my head appreciatively at the $1,000 littering sign that I saw in Maui and can still hear my mother’s nagging about litterbugs in my head at all times, I could still walk by litter without paying much attention to it. But when you become a dog owner or homeowner (or both), people who couldn’t care less about the way your home looks become more annoying than they already are. And your puppy is trying to eat everything in sight, including near my own home.
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After putting a random garbage bag in the dumpster for two weeks straight after finding them on the ground, I finally checked our building’s surveillance cameras. I shook my head at the new tenant in my condo who took her garbage bag all the way down three flights of stairs to just drop it next to the dumpster. She made no move to even attempt to lift the lid or put her garbage inside. And she simply walked away. Never mind Chicago’s problem with rats and that this bag could easily be torn with garbage flying everywhere; she simply did not care.