WHAT A WAY TO COME HOME FROM WORK...NO WATER!!!

I come home from work this afternoon, and guess what? The water connection to the apartment complex we live in --- over 100 units --- has been shut off, aparrantly because the owners forgot to pay the bill! And this is not the first time this has happened, either. A similar situation occured about two months ago, but Lakeland Electric and Water Services reconnected a few hours later after a payment was made.

This time, the shutdown occured before 9:00 this morning. According to one of our neighbours, the office manager --- when stopped as she was hauling ass out of the complex --- said she was on her way to make a payment and grumbled something about this being her last day working here.

As of now, there is a Lakeland Electric truck in the area, but we're still waiting impatiently for the water to start flowing again.

UPDATE: The water is back on as of about 8:00 PM. My understanding is that the payment was made around 9:30 this morning. I guess Lakeland Electric and Water wanted to insure the check wasn't going to bounce before they agreed to restore the service.

It definately left a lot of pissed-off people today. I wonder if the office manager will be back tomorrow. That would make the loss of three property managers in two years. And the name of the complex is about to be changed AGAIN...for the second time in as many years. Another owner, maybe, to treat the complex as simply an investment? Make a few cosmetic improvements to get people interested in leasing, jack up the rents for those already in place, eventually making way to brand it as an "upscale apartment community" where it would take advantage of location (blocks off I-4 and near U.S. 98 and Lakeland Square Mall) to get around $700 - 800/month???