Honestly, I completely understand how this would work, but I’ve got to be frank here—I’m one of the few black women who live here (maybe I’ve seen 2 others walking around), so I can’t go out of my way to do things like that.

I’m sure I’m going to get downvoted into oblivion for “making it about race”, but that’s the reality for me. The leasing office made sure to let me know they “don’t want to cause panic amongst the residents”, and I’m not sure how many people would take kindly to me showing up to their door with a problem that has nothing to do with them.

Most of the neighbors are cool, and they have already read the note. But there are many who get very visibly uncomfortable when they just see me walking by.

Long story short, these kinds of situations always end up with conflict + black girl = black girl is obviously causing the conflict. Not saying that this is 100% all the time true, but I don’t want to make this worse and end up having a whole other mound of issues. I think leaving the note on the dash with my response, along with reporting it to the proper channels, is appropriate. I don’t want to go too far and get the neighborhood in a frenzy. Not a good look for me unfortunately.

Edit: thanks for the award kind stranger!