DeKalb Police responded to calls of disorderly subjects Wednesday but made no arrests of a group of people picketing a local apartment complex.

Three picketers protested alleged management harrassment and deteriorating conditions at Amber Manor Apartments, 807 Ridge Dr.

Complex Manager Olivia Wilson said she called police because the protestors were not picketing on the sidewalk and were harrassing people.

One protestor, resident Dave Munday, formed a tenant union which holds weekly meetings because he said he was “so sick of the conditions” of his apartment and the complex.

Munday said he was promised repairs to his apartment by Amber Manor management which have not occurred. “This is a last resort,” he said of the picket.

It took a DeKalb city code violation to prompt apartment management to have the drywall and broken window seals fixed in his apartment, Munday said.

Wilson called Munday’s claim “sheer nonsense. That means the city of DeKalb is the head of maintenance.”

Lights in entranceways are out and not being replaced, Munday said. “If they had any sincerity” about making repairs, management would have had the light bulbs replaced, he said.

Munday said the management tried to break the ten-member tenant union by terminating his lease.

Resident picketer Esneda Manohar said “it takes them (Amber Manor management) forever” to make repairs in her apartment. She said the management told her if she wanted a new garbage disposal, she would have to buy one after her’s breaks down and cannot be fixed.

Wilson said it is the policy of the complex to try to fix broken garbage disposals, but not to replace them because previous residents constantly broke them. If disposals are not repairable, maintenance workers will remove them and replace them with a straight pipe, she said.

Humidity in Sheryl Springs’ apartment caused mold to grow in two bedrooms in her apartment, she said. In her shower stall, the apartment’s moisture has caused tiles to fall off. “More and more keep falling off,” Springs said.

Spring said spiders and bugs come in through a gaping hole by the shower knobs. She said she was promised the hole would be fixed by the time she moved in in February.

Wilson denied anyone had made the promise to Spring. “We don’t make idle promises or idle threats, either,” she said.

Spring said maintenance workers told her Amber Manor does not have enough money to repair the hole. However, Wilson said Springs’ bathroom is on a waiting list for repairs. “A number of bathrooms at Amber Manor need repairs,” she said.