A young woman moved into a new apartment block with her boyfriend, but days later found an unsettling note taped to their front door.
The eerie note read: 'I have my cameras in my window not to creep you out. 'We've been having ongoing problems with the maintenance guy. Keep your girl away from him!'
The woman explained that the note appeared on her front door a few days after she and her boyfriend had moved into the new unit.
Explaining the lead-up events to the note's arrival on Reddit, she said that on moving day, she chose a parking spot in the building as close as possible to the apartment so she could easily unload her own boxes.
Soon afterwards, her new next-door neighbour knocked on the door to politely let her know she would need to move the car as the person who paid for the spot would be back soon.
'She was super nice and I let her know I would move within the next few minutes after I brought my stuff in,' she explained.
A few days later, things took a strange turn.
A woman who'd recently moved into an apartment with her boyfriend came home to find this anonymous and eerie note taped to the front doo
She says when she arrived home her boyfriend mentioned that he had found 'a note left on our door'.
'We both assume it was our female neighbour that we've spoken to a few times, [but] we're unsure though since we have nothing to go off of.'
The anonymous note - which was written on a small torn piece of paper and not signed by anyone - sparked curiosity and worry in the woman.
Although she hadn't initially noticed the recording devices in her neighbour's window, she said she was 'not at all worried about the camera'.
However, she was 'weirded out' by the warning about the building maintenance worker.
'Does anyone know what I should do, or if there's anything to even be done about this? I just don't like how unsettling this note is,' she added in a post shared to an "Apartment Living" Reddit forum.
The post sparked lively discussion among commenters, the majority of whom believed the woman should absolutely heed the warning about the building worker - despite the mystery around who sent the note.
'It's a warning, heed it cautiously... the neighbour may not have meant to be ominous; they are looking out for you and yours, which might come across as unusual, but just keep an eye out.'
The note taped to the apartment door sparked online discussion, with many replies suggesting that despite the unusual wording and lack of sign-off, its cautionary message should be heeded.
Another reply agreed: 'The note sounds like it's saying "we have a camera because of issues with maintenance, NOT to try and spy on you".'
'That was how I interpreted the note too,' chimed in another person.
'She wanted to mention the camera so you know it's not there for malicious reasons. And maybe the maintenance guy has tried flirting or acted inappropriately with other women living there.'
One person simply stated: 'She's looking out for you. Believe her.'
The vast majority speculated that the same neighbour she had previously spoken to about the car space was most likely the same person who sent the note - but additionally recommended she seek her out to confirm.
'I'd ask her about the story with the maintenance guy so you know how worried you should be,' suggested one person.
'Check with your neighbour directly so you're not left guessing,' added another.
'At a decent hour, go knock on her door and say "Hey, I got your note... can I get the tea on the maintenance person?"'
However, while many praised the note as simply the act of a kind neighbour, the unusual wording and lack of sign off did strike some as odd.
There were multiple suggestions advising the new tenant to install security cameras at the front door and consider other precautionary measures.
'Notes like this always freak me out. It's very eerie to come home and find a message scrawled on a piece of paper like this. Why couldn't the neighbour just bring it up in person?'
'I think really the only unsettling thing for me would be that it was a note on the door and not an in-person conversation - this just feels like something that you don't write a note about,' one person mused.
A number of replies recommended taking immediate safety precautions, including installing their own security camera, door stoppers, changing the locks or installing motion-detecting sensor alarms.
'I'd get a camera too, just to be able to record things that are happening to save videos for evidence. Your neighbours must have had something happen to them or someone else in the apartment,' one person suggested.
An update message from the tenant confirmed that she and her partner had indeed since installed their own security camera and implemented some other personal protection measures.
However, the entire conversation also inspired others to share their own horror stories of incidents involving inappropriate behaviour of apartment maintenance workers.
'I've had a maintenance guy who was notorious for "haunting" apartments with attractive women. He'd knock and open the door within seconds hoping to catch them in PJs etc. He would also try and get into their bedrooms whenever he could,' one woman claimed.
'I have had maintenance "accidentally" enter my apartment several times,' another woman claimed. 'I have a chain and the instances where they have entered, they were blocked from getting inside because I was inside and had the chain latched. This happened at least three times in the last year.'