Any advice as to wording? It currently reads:
(name), I’ve been meaning to talk to you for a while, but I’ve never seemed to be able to catch you at a time when we could both talk.
Put simply, the situation with dogs in (building) has gotten out of control.
I’m not talking about the violations of (management company)’s rules, but the fact that too many people have pets that they refuse to clean up after.
At least once a month I can expect to have to get by a pool of urine that’s been left in one of the public areas – hall, lobby, elevator – that is left until one of the building staff cleans it up. Every so often I’ll see a pile of feces – inside the building – that’s left until the hall’s cleaned. I’ve seen occasional vomit in the hallway and lobby.
And a number of people make no attempt to clean up after their dogs outside the building. I’ve seen – repeatedly – people come out of (building)’s front door, walk their dog to the little half-circle of ground between the drive and the sidewalk and then, after the dog’s defecated, walk off leaving the pile for someone else to clean up. Or, as the case may be, walk through. (I spend a fair amount of time waiting across the street for the bus, which is why I have the time and opportunity to watch.)
Back when the snow was so bad I saw a woman walk out of the building with three dogs (two fairly large, one small) in tow. One of the dogs squatted in the middle of the driveway – which was, if you remember, the only cleared path to the sidewalk and street – and left a pile of feces. She didn’t make any attempt to clean up after the dog. Later, as I was waiting for the bus, she came walking by and one of the other dogs did the same thing, and again she left it.
I like dogs, but I’m not willing to have to deal with wading through urine or cleaning feces off my shoes. Aside from the fact that it’s nasty, it’s unhygienic. I imagine that the people who have to clean up the messes left are pretty tired of it as well. And while Borger is usually willing to ignore complaints from tenants and employees, they might find that prospective renters are unwilling to live with the situation.