ATLANTA -- Residents worry about rodents and scavengers at a local apartment complex that is covered in trash and overgrown weeds.

The water will soon be shut off at a northwest Atlanta apartment complex now in foreclosure. But people still live there and say their home has now become a trash-filled mess and a haven for thieves.

Mary Robinson watches as her once proud apartment complex falls apart around her in piles and piles of trash. The Maple Creek Apartments on Bolton Road are being slowly dismantled by scavengers. The scavengers are so bold Channel 2 caught them on tape driving away with stolen water heaters still full of water.

VIDEO: Apartment Complex Covered In Trash

“They just up and left us down here. Just like we’re wild animals in the forest,” said Robinson.

“They” are the investors who once owned Maple Creek Apartments. Residents said about 8 or 9 months ago they vanished. No one knows what happened to them.

Robinson told Channel 2’s Richard Elliot it’s the work of the devil. “The devil is gone because they’re the ones who put us in this predicament. They’re not here any more. They’re gone. They left us,” she said.

While that means the people that live there haven’t had to pay rent to anyone, it also means no one is picking up the trash, mowing the yards, paying the water bills or keeping the scavengers away.

The scavenging has gotten so bad they actually come into vacant apartments and rip out everything including the kitchen sink.

Some residents are gone but there are also plenty still living there. Some told Channel 2 they didn’t have the money to leave. Robinson is lucky because she’s leaving Friday.

“Like I said, I’m not young anymore. I’m an old lady and can just barely walk so I’ve just got to move on,” she said.

The City of Atlanta confirmed the complex owners owe them more than $80,000 so the water will have to be cut off soon. Residents who said they have no way to leave told Channel 2 they didn’t know what they would do when that happened.