Soi-disant city inspector?

Hey there,

Sorry I've been away--have a new freelance assignment where I don't want to fritter away my time online.

Let's see, description. The guy was not terribly tall for a guy (5'7 or 8?), had short dark hair and somewhat dopey looking '80s glasses. He was wearing a short, plain, brown leather jacket. He had medium-dark skin--I'd say he was Hispanic or South Asian, not black or white.

(This is sort of making him sound like a real inspector. The reasons I was suspicious were that when I asked him what I wanted, there was this pregnant pause, like "Why am I here? Hmmm, um um um, I'm here to inspect something because of ... um, some complaints by tenants" and because he didn't seem to know what apartment(s) he needed to see at all. You'd think he'd have a list or something, and would have buzzed those apartments specifically. Presumably my husband, whose term as board president recently expired, wasn't one of the "tenants" complaining to the city without me knowing about it...)

The car was one of those smallish SUVs...looks like an SUV, more like the size of a car. AMC-1139. The back was really dirty from the snow but it looked dark blue.

If it turns out that this guy really was a city inspector and just really inept, I'll delete the description.

apollonia, I've mentioned it to the neighbors I ran into, and I think the management company is going to put up some signs about not just buzzing people in. I think sometimes people just do it when they don't want to get bothered by people ringing again and again.