flat-block woes

there are six flats in my building.  all of them owned by a different person.  some of them lived in by the owners, many of them just rented.  this makes it very, very hard to get anything done at the 'communal' level. 

like our front door. it's old and filthy and doesn't lock/unlock very well. 

and our intercom system.  it's never worked since i've been here.  so if you buzz me, i can either just let you in and hope you are someone who is supposed to be here... or i ignore you and don't let you in.  because i can't call down to see who it is.  either i can hear you and you can't hear me, or you can hear me and i can't hear you, or (nearly all the time) neither one of us can hear anything.  so if i'm not expecting anyone, don't bother buzzing. 

besides, the buzzer often doesn't even sound up here.  or it gets stuck and just keeps buzzing.  so really, you're better off just texting me to let you in, if you are an actual person i know and like. 

then there's the back garden.  oh my life, this is travesty.  i've been here for nearly six years, and it has never once been tended.  i went down to try and get it sorted so we can hit the pinata tomorrow at my party, but noooo.  it's thigh high in most places, and not with just weeds and grass but with reeds and small trees.  it'll take a bushhog to get it sorted.  and the parts that are just weeds and might be able to be mowed (if the mower i only just found out we have actualy works, which is debatable since it's been sitting in the cupboard in the stairwell for more than five years) is all covered with piles of bracken and branches and vines that were trimmed at some point and just left there.  why bother to cut stuff if you aren't going to move it out of the way?!  and i don't have a car or any way to get rid of it.  i want to be able to use my garden this year... but noooo.  that seems like a losing battle.  hmph. 

maybe i just need to take the initiative and figure out a way to sort some of these.  except the intercom.  that's too dang expensive.  the garden, at least.  and maybe cleaning the front door and the stairway.  am i nice enough to do that?  we'll see, i suppose.