An elderly friend in Michigan recently moved into an apartment block.
He reports of his neighbours:

"... a Russian couple who feign understanding of English when they're
charged with violations. The other opposite them, is a dense hag of a
woman who sneers at anyone not to her liking. Which is everyone, but
flip-flops on 'cordiality' with the Russians when it suits her agenda.
And the two Ruskies fall for it.

The hag, by the way, is up for major Code violations, fire hazards in
the basement personal storage closet, and flooding hazard by leaving
her rug over the floor drain, because it's comfortable to
stand on fronting her washer / dryer. Abject stupidity. The Ruskies
are up for an electrical hazard, and fire, for triple cording three
washer/ dryer/ other heavy appliances into a triple non-grounded
extension plug, coming from a one line code-violated ceiling box cord
coming out of the side of the box. And worse, the dumb Rusky wound the
three electric cords around the dryer exhaust hose. Quite stupid. And
it's not a language barrier issue to see what's been done."

The Housing Association, which owns the building and is the landlord,
would do nothing about the violations, so he reported them all to the
local Fire Department, and they are getting results.

A combination of bad tenants and a useless landlord.

--
Davey.