How often do your windows get washed?

I have lived on the top (third) floor of my apartment building for a year. The windows haven't been washed since I've been here, and they were already quite dirty when I moved in. My manager seems utterly unconcerned, and I'm not sure how to contact the property management company. But I'm very annoyed. There is absolutely no safe way for me to do it myself. My view is really nice in the winter, and I want to be able to enjoy it with the windows closed (WINTER!!!), dammit.

What I'm wondering is, is this normal, or just my ghetto-ass building?

i wouldn't even DREAM of asking my building management to wash the outsides of my windows.

unless you can figure out a creative way to do it yourself, you're most likely out of luck.

you'ld have to check your lease, Hereto...it might read that the lessee is responsible for maintaining the apartment, which can be construed to mean/include the windows. If your building has a maintenance guy, you might be able to slip him/her a couple of bucks to do it.

I've lived in my apartment for over ten years now. The windows NEVER got washed. But the problem was solved when the landlords simply replaced all the windows in the building a few years ago.

Did I mention that my parents own the building? If anybody's windows would have gotten washed, it would have been mine, right?

sextonseven said:

and you live in nyc? i hate you now...



where do you live?

cborgman said:

Queens actually. Not quite as urban as Manhattan, but I still felt that I could answer the question.

sextonseven said:

I live in Seattle. Queens is adequately urban to answer my question.

Aaaannnnddd, I guess I'm gonna have to stop being a whiney betch, then. At least I know I'm not alone.

It's weird, 'cause I don't remember this being a problem with my previous apartments. I guess I just never had any desire to be able to see out of them before.

sextonseven said:

still... not to seem rude, but you know how it is in nyc, real estate is a blood sport. how many bedrooms, how much you pay?

HereToRockYourWorld said:

To the best of my knowledge, they've done it once since I moved in (July 2005). The managers are pretty good about giving us written advance notice about stuff like that.



Have you looked through your lease? Often the property management company is named as the agent of the owner(s). Also, if you have to mail your rent checks somewhere, or if the lease provides that you can pay your rent at some offsite location, that's probably their office.

inside: every two weeks, my cleaning-lady does that!

outside: every two months I guess.....it's included in building-maintainance (I live on the 7th, top, floor)

i saw someone take a long stick and cloth and wash the outside window herself.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

I originally read that as "How often do your windows get smashed?"...

Justin1972UK said:

When I lived a few blocks away from a not-so-nice part of Indianapolis, it seemed as if somebody in our building would have his or her car window smashed about once per month. Never happened to me, though... I think the culprits were crackheads looking for something to pawn or sell, and I never left anything inside my car (except a cheap ballpoint pen and a small pad of paper).

i've lived in my apartment for 5 years now, and they've never been washed. i suppose the realty company expects us to wash our own raggedy-assed windows.

just break your window

tell them a comet crashed through them, lol



they'll get you new ones, well you better hope they will

abierman said:

Is that common in Europe? Every two months?

sextonseven said:

sextonseven said:

yes.

we use the leftover bathwater from our bi-monthly bath

IstenSzek said:

You aren't giving yourself enough credit. The stereotype Americans have of Europeans is more like once a week.

sextonseven said:

yeah, i gave up completely. i just rub myself with
tuna and let the neighbourhood cats lick me clean.

IstenSzek said:

...now that i think of it...i've lived in apartments for pretty much my whole life, and the caretakers never washed the windows in any of 'em. the most the realty company has done is replaced all the windows on one side of the building that i currently live in. the ones on my side have yet to be replaced.

slow bastids. i sure as fuck have been paying enough to keep this place from falling apart, why can't they hook a sista up with some windows that don't let cold drafts n'rain through?

IstenSzek said:

You too?

minneapolisgenius said:

ah, so you're the one who trained them

i wondered why they were so compliant!

IstenSzek said:

I have a lot of spare time.

minneapolisgenius said:

and spare tuna apparently

cborgman said:

A whole bomb shelter full.

minneapolisgenius said:

marry me?

cborgman said:

I already have 7 husbands, but what the hell.