Apartment Living

I have grown to love my apartment…but that’s not to say that I dont long for the day when I can own my own home.  Whether its having a dog, a nice backyard or entertaining larger groups of people I cannot wait for that day. 

One of the things I struggle with living in an apartment is when to confront your neighbor with something they are doing that negatively impacts you.  My natural instinct is to say nothing…which is mostly out of fear of creating a negative relationship with them and further negative issues.  I feel I’ve been blessed with pretty good neighbors over the years…haven’t run into many huge issues.  Some examples of things I’ve struggled with whether or not to say something are; someone parking in my assigned parking spot, loud music and people parking close to my car.  The worst and something I want to ask for your advice on is people smoking in the hallway outside my window.  My next door neighbor and her friends smoke in the hallway instead of on her deck late at night, I assume because she has younger children who are sleeping.  This becomes problematic during the warmer monthes when I open my window…the smoke comes right into my living room (the window is only a couple feet from where they smoke)…and is really bad when I put a fan in my bedroom window to cool my room down to sleep.  Imagine sleeping in a bowling alley. So yeah this happened for the first time this season last night…should I say something? I know the lady who lives there’s name…we have said “Hello” a couple of times but now she has a live in boyfriend who is usually with her and I havent ever talked with him. What do you think?