I live in a San Francisco apartment with fewer than 10 units and know all my neighbors at least conversationally.

My roommate, my girlfriend and I believe our downstairs neighbor has begun dealing drugs in the past year. While the evidence is somewhat circumstantial (lots of late night visitors, mostly on weekends, usually drunk, only staying for between 5-10 minutes), I've lived in a similar situation some years back, and know the signs.

This relatively new vocation of our neighbor's is creating real security and quality of life issues for our building.  In the past nine months, we've had two thefts, compared to none in the previous 20 years. Ours is a very secure building, and in both incidents, the perpetrator had access to areas only available to residents and their guests.  

Other issues include being regularly woken up in the wee hours, as our neighbor's visitor rings every doorbell to get in, or because drunk people in search of drugs are not good at being quiet.  Generally, his clientele seems to fall into the "really sketchy" category.  

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