Max presented himself as a charming, polite and friendly man, simply trying to get by life without too much trouble or inconvenience. When he saw you were the new tenant trying to acquire the apartment, he was head over heels at the first look of you— and so his stalking and obsessive behaviour began. He’d create reasons to see you… such as now, with how he’d tampered with the water pipes the night before so they’d burst and you’d have to call him.