Dumpster on my parking lot; Neighbor calling city

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I received a phone call from a neighbor complaining about a dumpster leaning on his garage and trash overflowing into his yard. Long story short and after numerous phone call to my property management company,  advanced disposal (garbage company) and the city of Milwaukee the unlabeled dumpster  belongs to the city of Milwaukee but no one wants to take responsibility for it and move it off my property. Meanwhile the neighbor text me at least once a week to complain about the dumpster.   

Whats my next move?

[Frank Chin]

I'm in NYC and once encountered a similar problem, a construction project, but involving dumpsters, overflowing, garbage getting onto the streets. I was coming home from work and encountered a group of angry neighbors describing the frustration of calling dumpster companies, the mayors office, fire department, building department, sanitation department etc. I walked up to the group, they looked at me and asked "did you call anyone?"

Well, I haven't, but said I would call the councilman. Someone said, "who is that?" I then led the group to the corner of the street next to the dumpster where his reelection banner hung. The group went silent and someone said the me "Frank, since it's your idea, why don't you call."

The next morning, I called the councilman's office the first thing at work. His office asked me "how do you know he's your councilman?" I said "why else would he hang a re-election banner on my corner". Then they told me "we'll look into it right away"

The following day, I was on the way home from work again, the same bunch of neighbors were there, this times smiling, told me folks from the city, fire, building, and sanitation was all there, issued summons and ordered the owner and contractor to clean up and they showed up later in the day. I was thinking, they spent all these years leaving messages for the wrong people, in some cases, message boxes are full and all I have to do is call the right guy at the right time. Yeh, election time helps.

It's good to feel like a big shot for a day.