We're back to trucks and ladders and workers swarming over the building. They're finishing (one hopes) the painting on this side of the building today.

I mean--one hopes they're finishing, since there are now four colors on the building, creating a weird and not particularly attractive effect.

This management company means well, but they never get it quite right. They installed carports and instead of the kind supported with posts placed in front and back of the roof, they chose the kind with posts in the middle of the structure--right where the car door is when you park. Makes it tricky to get in or out of your car.

They installed concrete bumpers a couple of feet from the sidewalk, which is nice because now people can't pull so far into the parking spaces that they block the sidewalk (a thing that will also, I assume, be much appreciated by the snow-removal crews this winter). However, as (one assumes) a cost-saving measure, they installed one bumper for every two parking spaces. This means that for every other car, the driver has to step over the bumper to reach the sidewalk--a thing that's not a big problem today but, again, is going to be problematic when the snow comes and you can't quite tell what's concrete and what's a pile of snow.

And? For the carport people? They now have to navigate a virtual minefield of obstacles, since the bumpers were installed at a distance that virtually forces drivers to park right where the carport supports are guaranteed to block their doors. The alternative is to park with your car's tail sticking out into the driving lane of the parking lot (and where you lose half the advantage of using a carport).

They mean well, I'm sure. They just never quite get it right.