"They'll stop you coming out of the building or the lobby and you could tell them, 'Y'all could take me upstairs right now to the apartment I came from' and they'll lie and say 'we went upstairs and checked, '" he said.

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We waved when the car pulled away, then went back upstairs.

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He recommended we thump the taps, so while my husband and I went upstairs to try this, my three-year-old son ran for a pee into the marble-clad bathroom whose door opens directly onto the shower floor.

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