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.Somebody is breaking in to my apartment.

Here's what has been happening

1)
The day after I got the key to the apartment when I was moving in my furniture with the help of a friend I noticed that somebody had forced the doorknob and the area around it was a bunch of shredded wooden splinters like somebody had pulled real hard on the side of it and pulled it into the wood. There is now a centimeter gap in my door where anybody can bend down and gaze into my bedroom.

The apartment smelled bad and we found a discolored puddle in the kitchen that might have been HUMAN URINE. My friend was convinced it was some sort of leak but to this day it has not returned and a leak would have kept leaking.

2)
I come home from work and sometimes find that my belongings have been rummaged through. Bills are in different places, paperwork has been disorganized. My DVDs and CDs have been moved or are occassionally missing. I have noticed this about four times since I have moved in here six months ago.

3))
One day I found my social security card on my bedroom floor. I keep this in a portfolio of important documents and I almost never take it out. Everything else was moved around too. All my mail and bills were opened. Somebody is probably stealing my identity and I will probably get screwed by it six months down the road.

4))
My kitchen floor is now torn up by somebody's kleated shoes. I don't own any shoes like that and there was no damage to the floor when I moved in.

I am pretty sure it is the maintenance guy. I get really bad vibes when I am around him. He always gives me these really shifty eyed looks and smirks and shouts stuff like "what's up!!!!" at me when he sees me around the complex.

This guy entered my apartment one day when I was home. He said he was checking for leaks and then left really quick. I don't think he expected me to be home because I work nights and people are normally at work during the day.

He spends an awfully large amont of time hanging out in the hallway outside of my apartment, sometimes with a dude who looks homeless. Whenever I leave he will wave or say hi to me while smirking. I think he is messing with me. He is acknowledging the fact that I am leaving and will not be home to stop him from trespassing. He's waiting out there to watch me leave.

I know this guy lives in my apartment complex somewhere but there is absolutely no reason for him to be chillin outside my door at 11 at night. It totally creeps me out.

One night somebody was pounding on my door and pulling really hard at the doorknob. It was the burnt out hippy dude the maintenance giuy chills with outside of my apartment. When I opened the door he was very surprised and took off. I have talked to the manager about this and he says the man is not a tenant. The old woman who lives next door to me approached me three days later and told me he tried to break into her apartment as well.

I don't know what to do. This guy is the apartment manager's friend. He is shady too. I've asked to install my own locks but have been told they "need to be able access the apartment at any time, in case of an emergency" My doorknob hasn't been fixed. It would have to be fixed by the same guy I think is messing with my stuff.

I feel totally violated.
I want to get the hell out of here but can't because I am in a lease.
Its horrible.
and I don't know what to do.