My apartment is 150 square feet and my bed is 2 feet from my "kitchen" cabinets, which are filled mostly with things like towels and other non-food items that I have nowhere else to put. I don't even use my stove, because it is 2 feet from my bed. It's a 3rd floor apartment that has never had a pest problem, but they just fined me $50 because I didn't let them put bug poison right next to my bed. Meanwhile, there is an apartment in the building that was rented as a commercial kitchen, and the person received a PPP loan to run their catering business out of their apartment, which is a matter of public record. They have set off the fire alarm numerous times, but MCM Management doesn't care that they are endangering the building. My next door neighbors smoke heroin, which seeps into my apartment, but MCM Management doesn't care. There is a tenant who blocks the fire exit with their trash every day, but MCM Management doesn't care (they know who it is, because the person leaves shipping labels on their boxes). They had a fake fire inspection 2 years in a row, where the fire inspector refused to check smoke detectors (the catering business doesn't even have one), they ignored the blocked fire exit, and the lack of lighting on the fire stairs (which is intentional - I've watched maintenance unscrew the bulbs, so that tenants can't just turn the light back on). MCM Management was issued a notice of violation for the fake fire inspection, which is probably why they're retaliating against me. They didn't care about any non-existent bugs before I reported the fake fire inspection. They did, of course care very much that everyone's mailboxes were jammed with a week's worth of mail, after the post office was unable to get in for a week, because MCM Management won't give them the door code. They blamed the tenants for "not emptying mailboxes each day" and put nasty notes through everyone's door. All they care about is pleasing a renter's rights group that made demands about a different property in another part of the city, which had a different set of problems. If your problem isn't on their list (fire safety is not), you're out of luck. read more