Man Suspects That He Is The Only Person Living In His Apartment, Investigates And Shares Proof On TikTok
Do you remember the movie “I Am Legend”? Yes, the one in which the hero played by Will Smith, for a long time, had no one to slap in the face, and just wandered around the deserted New York. Creepy feeling, right? Now imagine something similar happening in real life.
That is, you move into a large apartment building, and then gradually begin to notice something strange. That there are no neighbors around you, cars in the parking garage look abandoned, and for several days, you do not meet a single living soul… Post-apocalyptic New York? No, Atlanta, our days!
The TikToker @atlcody, as you can guess from his nickname, is called Cody and he lives in Atlanta. The man recorded a series of videos, which in total scored more than 6M views. And, as usual in the good old creepy stories, it all started on the eve of Halloween…
More info: TikTok (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)
The Original Poster lives in Atlanta, in an overcrowded apartment building… or not so overcrowded?
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So, the Original Poster suspected that he was actually living alone in the apartment building, even though the official website indicated that the apartment building was almost full. What was the reason? It’s very simple – on Friday, the courier inserted Chinese menu leaflets into the door cracks – and on Sunday, walking along his floor, Cody suddenly noticed that all the leaflets remained in their places.
@atlcody #sketchy #sketchytiktok #scary #mistery #atlcody #apartment #lies #MMKx007 ♬ original sound – Cody
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The leaflets remained in their places in the door cracks of many apartments, while several days passed
It’s really weird that for two days, absolutely no one exited or entered the apartments. The man thought about it and decided to conduct his own investigation. On the fifth day, it turned out that half of the menu leaflets remained in their places. But perhaps, the OP suggested, the apartment complex just removed them?
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It should be clarified that, according to Cody himself, he lives in a nice part of the city, and the building itself is also good, especially considering the price. How, then, are so many apartments free? Or did many tenants just simultaneously go on an extended vacation?
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The OP even thought about some conspiracy theories while investigating the leaflet mystery
Cody even supposed that the staff of the complex simply saw his video and deliberately took away some of the leaflets in order to create the illusion that people do live in the apartments. The blogger decided to go to the parking garage to see if there were cars there.
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Some cars in the parking garage seemed to look really abandoned
There were more cars than apartments on the floor where the OP lives, and some cars didn’t look like they’d moved for a while. The TikToker decided to explore other floors and found out that there were plenty of empty spaces – especially considering how many people are expected to live in the entire building.
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At the same time, the building’s official website claimed that only four apartments were free to rent
Cody decided to check how many apartments are officially available for rent, and went to the building’s official website. It turned out that only four apartments were free for rent – and there were many more leaflets with menus at the doors! And, of course, many more abandoned cars. Where did all these people go, then?
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There were not so many windows lit when Cody walked around the building in the evening
Finally, towards evening, at eight pm, the man decided to go around the building and see how many windows were lit. It turned out that if you do not take into account the porch lights, then in fact, the windows in many apartments remained dark. A mystical story far from over…
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People in the comments were mostly ironic and offered lots of various explanations
We must also say that the people in the comments to the video were not really mystified, stating that the fewer neighbors, the better. For example, one of the commenters noted that she would just be happy if there were no neighbors in the apartment above who were constantly “stoning” around.
Someone advised Cody to set off the fire alarm and see how many people run out of the building. And another person suggested that this is just an apartment for introverts. However, it is more likely, according to another commenter, that the complex management is simply claiming that it is almost full just to pretend it’s competitive and raise prices for the new tenants. Though… conspiracy theories look more thrilling and exciting.
We’re interested, what do you think about the explanation of this story? Are you inclined to the version about the administration tricks, or is there still some kind of a creepy mystery here? We will always welcome your comments.
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Twist: his alternate personality killed them all over a parking dispute and his main personality doesn't remember it.
I'm curious as to why this guy didn't just go knocking on the doors at 6 or 7pm, where the menus were still up after three/four days. Sure you might get just as many nonresponses as doing nothing, but if someone answered or at least spoke from inside, just say "Hey I'm your neighbor just wanted to say Hi." or even be honest w/ "Hey just wanted to make sure everything is okay, you've had a menu on your door for three days", yeah he might look a little crazy but it might answer some questions. Also 12 o'clock on a Wednesday, is that noon or midnight ? I'm guessing midnight since few cars at noon would be very expected.
I think the flyers in the doors says it all. No need for knocking.
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I think the management probably just puts a smaller number of available apartments on the website than there actually are. 1) Too many empty apartments could make potential renters wonder what's wrong with the building. 2) The idea that there's only a couple available creates an illusion of scarcity that could make the apartments more psychologically tempting. What are you more likely to want: the candy from a full bowl, or the candy that somebody tells you is "the very last one"?
as someone who grew up with a Mom in corporate and private real estate world, this explanation actually makes the most sense, IMHO. The rest might be out-of-town landlords, covid moves, and some individual unique circumstances - put it all together and it can start to look "vacant"
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This is probably a situation of properties owned by investors who don’t ever intend to live there or rent or visit or anything. It is a pure investment and will be sold for a profit in a few years. It is very common and is why people can’t find places to live or reasonable rent in desirable areas. It is absolutely common and not new.
In an apartment building though? I would think it would either be trying to be totally empty or trying to be fairly full. Also, why keep a car there if it's never going to be occupied?
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Rich foreigners and corporations buy up real estate as an investment commodity only… they are not interested in “landlording” as long as the real estate market goes up and up. Their refusal to rent out also serves a purpose in that it drives the cost of real estate up by creating living space scarcity. Humans looking for homes are simply pawns in their market manipulation scheme. Does your government care about you or are they reluctant to act due to “political donations” to keep this farce going? In Vancouver Canada there is a moratorium on foreign (mostly Chinese) investment on properties, thank goodness.
Awww, man, we could use that - bring some of that legislative sanity down here to the US, please!!!
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Probably a set of gov't (think gov't abbreviations) "group leased" apartments for agents who aren't in-country all that often.
It's an FBI safehouse and you've just given away the location. It's a shelter for aliens from Mars. It's inhabited by zombies and you should RUNNN!!!!!!
Lololol - yes!!! but the second you become aware of the scheme you are TOAST - so ruuuuun!!!
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Isn't this from a few years back? I'm rather sure it is, this is not resent and was all over social media a year or 2 ago.
Nope, he posts a lot of tiktoks on legal issues, and he just posted an update today.
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I dont know why he hss so much time to worry if people live there. Some neighbors are not worth knowing. And its good to have a quiet building.
He's curious and I would be too. There's a big mystery here her wants to solve.
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Easy answer, ask your mail carrier. They will know how many units get mail.
I still get mail at my house occasionally for the previous owners and I've lived here for over 10 years...
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My wild guess is that there is something illegal going on. Marijuana grow operations, meth labs, human trafficking, anything like that.
This guy is basically copying that European dude that made almost the exact same claim, but it expanded from his building to the entire city.
What I kept wondering is: has he run into anyone in the hallway? Laundry room? I would find it weird not seeing anyone walking around the building ever. This is just good clean fun curiosity
My hot take: the Tiktoker is making it all up. It's very easy to control the narrative in a series of 30 second videos. He could have shot that video of the apartment lights from outside at any time of the night, or shot it again and again until he got one where there was no people. 100% a hoax.
Maybe it's mostly used for money laundering or asset hiding. Like they can say that the money coming in is from renters but they don't want to deal with actual tenants or the problems they cause
Sounds like you should stop asking questions before you get answers that you weren’t looking for…
Sometimes, it's just better to stop before things get a little "spooky"...
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Atlanta recently passed strict laws against short term rentals. The apartments were probably being sublet, but now the tenants, who never lived there, can't legally do that anymore.
Are we being trolled? Some people don't leave their homes or drive their cars for days, weeks, or longer. More cars than apts? Obvious explanation. Many empty spots:? More obvious explanations. Some lights are on, some lights are off? Come on, do I have to explain that? He said "There should be more cars," AND he said "There should be fewer cars." Ok, Goldilocks! If he's literally seen NO tenants, and if ALL menus remained for two days, then OK, I'll give him that. That's weird. Could be a lot of airline employees or rentals or a few Airbnb.
Either it's nothing... or he's part of some strange experiment or might be noticing some weird type of crime? Hope he has security. Be safe, OP!
Or many of the rentals are to companies for visiting professionals. There are a lot of corporate HQs in the Atlanta area.
I could see a dozen apartments for this but several floors? That's called a Hotel.
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Our dad rented an apartment for business in a building that rented mostly for business so we the kids had access we just had to tell dad when we’d be there. It went on for a while before I saw anyone who wasn’t with us those stays because of the whole most of the apartments are business apartments
If the rent is rather low then maybe some people are renting it to have an official address but in reality living somewhere else with someone they should not be living with. E.g. other person’s losing benefits or child support if they are not by themselves anymore.
Probably mostly bought up by Chinese. They are probably investment apartments, long story short the quickest way to make money 💰 in the mainland is to buy housing and resell, since the government clamps down in the mainland they use foreign housing. Also a way to "store" money offshore in as investment housing.
Looks like it's a building full of short term rentals (aka Airbnb, with a possible money laundering angle, since no one seems to ever be there, living in Miami, I've seen a lot of places where money laundering was pretty obviously taking place and this is a good candidate), they probably have to take in a certain number of real tenants to comply with city ordinances. They may also rent the parking spaces out to people in the surrounding area so the parking lot always looks fullish.
Rent prices are rising everyday. Maybe the owners are hesitant to sign lease agreements and lock someone into the current rate for 12 months when the rate would be much higher in a few more months.
Fun fact; best way to clean some money is to buy property in another country. Canada has a LOT of vacant buildings like this. The investors do not live in Canada. This building looks like it may be one of those. Is it illegal for Chinese/middleEastern/European rich jackasses to launder money using property in other countries? Nope, not technically. But thanks to them, theres less affordable housing than there should be.
All rented by the DNC to give legit addresses to "voters" who dont actually exist.
Someone is using that place as a front. They're probably laundering money.
Reminded me of my old town. We'd drive around in the winter and literally dozens of places hadn't shovelled even when it hadn't snowed for weeks. As far as I can tell it was foreign investors buying real estate to keep their money from their government.
Maybe the apartment building has some kind of portal to another dimension (with no people) that the OP is unaware of and he is just traveling between dimensions. My house has some sort of time warp where i can leave my house at a certain time and enter my car before i ever left my house... spooky stuff
Here's a crazy idea, go knock on peoples doors. If there's an answer you can just say that you wanted to introduce yourself to your neighbors. Then you can count how many people answer their door (occupied apartment) vs how many have no answer (not occupied (
"Silent Hill" ... in this instance... "Silent Apartments" .... he is living in an alternate reality/dimension... hope I got the movie name correct....... He runs down the corridor as his alternate runs in the opposite direction
Why not go floor to floor knocking on doors and just introduce yourself and say you want to meet your neighbors?
This is a Chinese owned building. This is what they do in China and why their economy is currently collapsing and they have military sitting in tanks outside their banks. They buy land, then sell or rent out housing units, and use the money from the rented unts to buy more land and do the same. It's a stupid process that can only end in disaster because it would have to expand indefinitely. Chinese banks are defaulting all over the place and have put limits on withdrawals because they have no money. They already spent their clients money on property and housing that doesn't even exist so they have nothing to take from bank members when they refuse to pay.
How is this story good journalism? Even including the direct quotes and repeating them in the main story. While the topic is interesting there is no conclusion of the journalist. What is his opinion??
Sounds like a front for stolen vehicles, as well as a money laundering business. Gotta have a few legit tenants to point curious cops at.
People in his building are very eco-concious and walk, bus, or bike around town. They also turn off all unnecessary lights to save electricity. They replace the menus in the doors when they leave in the hope that whoever put them there will come back and see them and get the message that nobody is interested.
Ask the mailman. I used to deliver mail in san francisco and there was a huge building there mostly occupied by Asians and the majority didn't even live there, just once in a while when they came over for a few weeks for vacation or work. And where my mom lives a lot of her neighbors were Canadian and because of covid couldnt leave the country.
Maybe they are all single people getting lucky and spending their nights at boyfriend or girlfriend house.
The only creepy thing here is the dude wandering around filming his neighbors doors and cars. I work from home and I'm an introvert. I don't leave my apartment for days sometimes. I would be calling my landlord for damn sure if I saw this dude filming like this in my building. Maybe your neighbors just don't like you, creeper! 😂
Maybe they're all hiding from the weird guy wandering around the hallway.
The building may be owned by overseas investors and speculators who are just hanging onto it until they can sell it for a profit. They have to have at least one actual tenant to make it look legit. This has happened so much in Vancouver the city has raised property taxes on empty buildings and houses.
My initial idea about this reminds me of New York City where individuals rent up entire buildings just to list them out for airbnb. So if this was during the covid shutdown or something near there it could easily explain the drop off of anyone using them for airbnb. Also if just one person is renting all of them they very well could have paid the entire year's rent up front and themselves have died and is therefore no longer renting these out on Airbnb. The cars are quite interesting and my thought for that is perhaps the management or owners know what the building is being used for as airbnbs and are parking excess vehicles there.
For those who don't know, the guy calls himself Cody, and answers legal questions regarding property law, especially rental law on TikTok. I don't know if he is a lawyer, but his advice seems to be on point, legally. His TikTok hndle is: https://www.tiktok.com/@atlcody
We have a house and there's almost never any lights to see from the street because we mostly spend our time in our office and that's in the basement. The rest of the house is dark and if we walk around, like go to the kitchen for example, our lights along the way are on timers, like 30 seconds, so they lit up a bit then go dark. Also, if someone would put a menu at my door, I don't rush to go and get it. We go out once every 10 days or so and I take my mail in maybe every 3-4 days. The neighbors never know if we're there or not. Last year we spent 9 weeks in BC helping with the fires and no one questioned our absence.
Maybe he wondered onto an abandoned movie set, then got amnesia? Or some weird social experiment?
The cars and menus are easily explained by having a high percentage of people doing work-from-home. He said it's a good building and a nice part of town, so that would make sense. Not sure about the lights thing, but then, if you're in a room further into the building nobody would be able to tell. Some tenants might be retired and do the early-to-bed/early-to-rise thing that seems common among retirees. I dunno, it just seems like we want it to be a conspiracy because that would be interesting, but it's probably nothing.
Okay, I clicked into his channel and watched a few to see if there were updates (this was November 2021) and now I'm hooked too. Dozens of generated wifi connections and weird trash-day antics. A notice about vandalized cars but nobody seems to be checking on their cars. Could be people with multiple homes as someone working in realty suggested, but honestly this guy is fun to watch and sells it really well. I will keep watching. If I don't post again that means he hasn't solved it.
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If they are truly empty then you know this complex is a big part of the high rent issues
Place a crumple pice of paper under a tire. It get squashed then someone drove it. Write a note an slide under doors introducing yourself an asking if they want to join a laundry room party with your number to text their apt number back. Say you just want to be able to know if someone is there in case of emergencies to help get people out ok.
Are we being trolled? Some people don't leave their homes or drive their cars for days, weeks, or longer. More cars than apts? Obvious explanation. Many empty spots:? More obvious explanations. Some lights are on, some lights are off? Come on, do I have to explain that? He said "There should be more cars," AND he said "There should be fewer cars." Ok, Goldilocks. If he's literally seen NO tenants, and if ALL menus remained for two days, then OK, I'll give him that. That's weird. Could be a lot of airline employees, or rentals, or a few Airbnb.
Twist: his alternate personality killed them all over a parking dispute and his main personality doesn't remember it.
I'm curious as to why this guy didn't just go knocking on the doors at 6 or 7pm, where the menus were still up after three/four days. Sure you might get just as many nonresponses as doing nothing, but if someone answered or at least spoke from inside, just say "Hey I'm your neighbor just wanted to say Hi." or even be honest w/ "Hey just wanted to make sure everything is okay, you've had a menu on your door for three days", yeah he might look a little crazy but it might answer some questions. Also 12 o'clock on a Wednesday, is that noon or midnight ? I'm guessing midnight since few cars at noon would be very expected.
I think the flyers in the doors says it all. No need for knocking.
Load More Replies... I think the management probably just puts a smaller number of available apartments on the website than there actually are. 1) Too many empty apartments could make potential renters wonder what's wrong with the building. 2) The idea that there's only a couple available creates an illusion of scarcity that could make the apartments more psychologically tempting. What are you more likely to want: the candy from a full bowl, or the candy that somebody tells you is "the very last one"?
as someone who grew up with a Mom in corporate and private real estate world, this explanation actually makes the most sense, IMHO. The rest might be out-of-town landlords, covid moves, and some individual unique circumstances - put it all together and it can start to look "vacant"
Load More Replies... This is probably a situation of properties owned by investors who don’t ever intend to live there or rent or visit or anything. It is a pure investment and will be sold for a profit in a few years. It is very common and is why people can’t find places to live or reasonable rent in desirable areas. It is absolutely common and not new.
In an apartment building though? I would think it would either be trying to be totally empty or trying to be fairly full. Also, why keep a car there if it's never going to be occupied?
Load More Replies... Rich foreigners and corporations buy up real estate as an investment commodity only… they are not interested in “landlording” as long as the real estate market goes up and up. Their refusal to rent out also serves a purpose in that it drives the cost of real estate up by creating living space scarcity. Humans looking for homes are simply pawns in their market manipulation scheme. Does your government care about you or are they reluctant to act due to “political donations” to keep this farce going? In Vancouver Canada there is a moratorium on foreign (mostly Chinese) investment on properties, thank goodness.
Awww, man, we could use that - bring some of that legislative sanity down here to the US, please!!!
Load More Replies... Probably a set of gov't (think gov't abbreviations) "group leased" apartments for agents who aren't in-country all that often.
It's an FBI safehouse and you've just given away the location. It's a shelter for aliens from Mars. It's inhabited by zombies and you should RUNNN!!!!!!
Lololol - yes!!! but the second you become aware of the scheme you are TOAST - so ruuuuun!!!
Load More Replies... Isn't this from a few years back? I'm rather sure it is, this is not resent and was all over social media a year or 2 ago.
Nope, he posts a lot of tiktoks on legal issues, and he just posted an update today.
Load More Replies... I dont know why he hss so much time to worry if people live there. Some neighbors are not worth knowing. And its good to have a quiet building.
He's curious and I would be too. There's a big mystery here her wants to solve.
Load More Replies... Easy answer, ask your mail carrier. They will know how many units get mail.
I still get mail at my house occasionally for the previous owners and I've lived here for over 10 years...
Load More Replies... My wild guess is that there is something illegal going on. Marijuana grow operations, meth labs, human trafficking, anything like that.
This guy is basically copying that European dude that made almost the exact same claim, but it expanded from his building to the entire city.
What I kept wondering is: has he run into anyone in the hallway? Laundry room? I would find it weird not seeing anyone walking around the building ever. This is just good clean fun curiosity
My hot take: the Tiktoker is making it all up. It's very easy to control the narrative in a series of 30 second videos. He could have shot that video of the apartment lights from outside at any time of the night, or shot it again and again until he got one where there was no people. 100% a hoax.
Maybe it's mostly used for money laundering or asset hiding. Like they can say that the money coming in is from renters but they don't want to deal with actual tenants or the problems they cause
Sounds like you should stop asking questions before you get answers that you weren’t looking for…
Sometimes, it's just better to stop before things get a little "spooky"...
Load More Replies... Atlanta recently passed strict laws against short term rentals. The apartments were probably being sublet, but now the tenants, who never lived there, can't legally do that anymore.
Are we being trolled? Some people don't leave their homes or drive their cars for days, weeks, or longer. More cars than apts? Obvious explanation. Many empty spots:? More obvious explanations. Some lights are on, some lights are off? Come on, do I have to explain that? He said "There should be more cars," AND he said "There should be fewer cars." Ok, Goldilocks! If he's literally seen NO tenants, and if ALL menus remained for two days, then OK, I'll give him that. That's weird. Could be a lot of airline employees or rentals or a few Airbnb.
Either it's nothing... or he's part of some strange experiment or might be noticing some weird type of crime? Hope he has security. Be safe, OP!
Or many of the rentals are to companies for visiting professionals. There are a lot of corporate HQs in the Atlanta area.
I could see a dozen apartments for this but several floors? That's called a Hotel.
Load More Replies... Our dad rented an apartment for business in a building that rented mostly for business so we the kids had access we just had to tell dad when we’d be there. It went on for a while before I saw anyone who wasn’t with us those stays because of the whole most of the apartments are business apartments
If the rent is rather low then maybe some people are renting it to have an official address but in reality living somewhere else with someone they should not be living with. E.g. other person’s losing benefits or child support if they are not by themselves anymore.
Probably mostly bought up by Chinese. They are probably investment apartments, long story short the quickest way to make money 💰 in the mainland is to buy housing and resell, since the government clamps down in the mainland they use foreign housing. Also a way to "store" money offshore in as investment housing.
Looks like it's a building full of short term rentals (aka Airbnb, with a possible money laundering angle, since no one seems to ever be there, living in Miami, I've seen a lot of places where money laundering was pretty obviously taking place and this is a good candidate), they probably have to take in a certain number of real tenants to comply with city ordinances. They may also rent the parking spaces out to people in the surrounding area so the parking lot always looks fullish.
Rent prices are rising everyday. Maybe the owners are hesitant to sign lease agreements and lock someone into the current rate for 12 months when the rate would be much higher in a few more months.
Fun fact; best way to clean some money is to buy property in another country. Canada has a LOT of vacant buildings like this. The investors do not live in Canada. This building looks like it may be one of those. Is it illegal for Chinese/middleEastern/European rich jackasses to launder money using property in other countries? Nope, not technically. But thanks to them, theres less affordable housing than there should be.
All rented by the DNC to give legit addresses to "voters" who dont actually exist.
Someone is using that place as a front. They're probably laundering money.
Reminded me of my old town. We'd drive around in the winter and literally dozens of places hadn't shovelled even when it hadn't snowed for weeks. As far as I can tell it was foreign investors buying real estate to keep their money from their government.
Maybe the apartment building has some kind of portal to another dimension (with no people) that the OP is unaware of and he is just traveling between dimensions. My house has some sort of time warp where i can leave my house at a certain time and enter my car before i ever left my house... spooky stuff
Here's a crazy idea, go knock on peoples doors. If there's an answer you can just say that you wanted to introduce yourself to your neighbors. Then you can count how many people answer their door (occupied apartment) vs how many have no answer (not occupied (
"Silent Hill" ... in this instance... "Silent Apartments" .... he is living in an alternate reality/dimension... hope I got the movie name correct....... He runs down the corridor as his alternate runs in the opposite direction
Why not go floor to floor knocking on doors and just introduce yourself and say you want to meet your neighbors?
This is a Chinese owned building. This is what they do in China and why their economy is currently collapsing and they have military sitting in tanks outside their banks. They buy land, then sell or rent out housing units, and use the money from the rented unts to buy more land and do the same. It's a stupid process that can only end in disaster because it would have to expand indefinitely. Chinese banks are defaulting all over the place and have put limits on withdrawals because they have no money. They already spent their clients money on property and housing that doesn't even exist so they have nothing to take from bank members when they refuse to pay.
How is this story good journalism? Even including the direct quotes and repeating them in the main story. While the topic is interesting there is no conclusion of the journalist. What is his opinion??
Sounds like a front for stolen vehicles, as well as a money laundering business. Gotta have a few legit tenants to point curious cops at.
People in his building are very eco-concious and walk, bus, or bike around town. They also turn off all unnecessary lights to save electricity. They replace the menus in the doors when they leave in the hope that whoever put them there will come back and see them and get the message that nobody is interested.
Ask the mailman. I used to deliver mail in san francisco and there was a huge building there mostly occupied by Asians and the majority didn't even live there, just once in a while when they came over for a few weeks for vacation or work. And where my mom lives a lot of her neighbors were Canadian and because of covid couldnt leave the country.
Maybe they are all single people getting lucky and spending their nights at boyfriend or girlfriend house.
The only creepy thing here is the dude wandering around filming his neighbors doors and cars. I work from home and I'm an introvert. I don't leave my apartment for days sometimes. I would be calling my landlord for damn sure if I saw this dude filming like this in my building. Maybe your neighbors just don't like you, creeper! 😂
Maybe they're all hiding from the weird guy wandering around the hallway.
The building may be owned by overseas investors and speculators who are just hanging onto it until they can sell it for a profit. They have to have at least one actual tenant to make it look legit. This has happened so much in Vancouver the city has raised property taxes on empty buildings and houses.
My initial idea about this reminds me of New York City where individuals rent up entire buildings just to list them out for airbnb. So if this was during the covid shutdown or something near there it could easily explain the drop off of anyone using them for airbnb. Also if just one person is renting all of them they very well could have paid the entire year's rent up front and themselves have died and is therefore no longer renting these out on Airbnb. The cars are quite interesting and my thought for that is perhaps the management or owners know what the building is being used for as airbnbs and are parking excess vehicles there.
For those who don't know, the guy calls himself Cody, and answers legal questions regarding property law, especially rental law on TikTok. I don't know if he is a lawyer, but his advice seems to be on point, legally. His TikTok hndle is: https://www.tiktok.com/@atlcody
We have a house and there's almost never any lights to see from the street because we mostly spend our time in our office and that's in the basement. The rest of the house is dark and if we walk around, like go to the kitchen for example, our lights along the way are on timers, like 30 seconds, so they lit up a bit then go dark. Also, if someone would put a menu at my door, I don't rush to go and get it. We go out once every 10 days or so and I take my mail in maybe every 3-4 days. The neighbors never know if we're there or not. Last year we spent 9 weeks in BC helping with the fires and no one questioned our absence.
Maybe he wondered onto an abandoned movie set, then got amnesia? Or some weird social experiment?
The cars and menus are easily explained by having a high percentage of people doing work-from-home. He said it's a good building and a nice part of town, so that would make sense. Not sure about the lights thing, but then, if you're in a room further into the building nobody would be able to tell. Some tenants might be retired and do the early-to-bed/early-to-rise thing that seems common among retirees. I dunno, it just seems like we want it to be a conspiracy because that would be interesting, but it's probably nothing.
Okay, I clicked into his channel and watched a few to see if there were updates (this was November 2021) and now I'm hooked too. Dozens of generated wifi connections and weird trash-day antics. A notice about vandalized cars but nobody seems to be checking on their cars. Could be people with multiple homes as someone working in realty suggested, but honestly this guy is fun to watch and sells it really well. I will keep watching. If I don't post again that means he hasn't solved it.
Load More Replies... If they are truly empty then you know this complex is a big part of the high rent issues
Place a crumple pice of paper under a tire. It get squashed then someone drove it. Write a note an slide under doors introducing yourself an asking if they want to join a laundry room party with your number to text their apt number back. Say you just want to be able to know if someone is there in case of emergencies to help get people out ok.
Are we being trolled? Some people don't leave their homes or drive their cars for days, weeks, or longer. More cars than apts? Obvious explanation. Many empty spots:? More obvious explanations. Some lights are on, some lights are off? Come on, do I have to explain that? He said "There should be more cars," AND he said "There should be fewer cars." Ok, Goldilocks. If he's literally seen NO tenants, and if ALL menus remained for two days, then OK, I'll give him that. That's weird. Could be a lot of airline employees, or rentals, or a few Airbnb.
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