Comments on: Well, that’s one way to get your landlord’s attention. (If you’re lucky.)

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:43:25 +0000

The point not gotten.

By: non

non — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:23:43 +0000

oh no people ignored you, and had a discussion besides your joke, the world is truly ending now that you’re not the center of attention. Well at least this should help

By: kimmy78

kimmy78 — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:01:39 +0000

Moxie, it looks like CB made a good joke of you! He has the hang of pulling suckers like you in nearly every time. You all just keep falling for it!!

Luv ya CB, keep at it Champ!

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 02:27:56 +0000

See? I told you!

By: Moxie

Moxie — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 01:17:01 +0000

Perhaps it’s your inability to deliver a good joke that is the problem. You seem to be the common denominator after all. Oh, and you throw a hissy fit when people response genuinely to your posts.

Keep at it, champ. You’ll get the hang of it.

By: Who passed out the Haterade?

Who passed out the Haterade? — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:13:41 +0000

Chris and Distraught: It’s all relative – people rarely realize how good they’ve got it until they experience worse. I used to think it was horrible living in an apartment overlooking a bar that decided it would be fun to hold outdoor mechanical-bull-riding contests until 2 am, with drunks whooping it up. Now I live in a studio where I can hear loud breathing without being anywhere near the wall. (Literally. I’m currently hearing my neighbor snore – not the loud kind that sounds like serial explosive farts, the kind that sounds like a painful hum.)

And yet, someone who lives in third-world housing on ten cents an hour making $1000 designer shoes would probably find any of our places to be paradise.

By: VZG

VZG — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:58:24 +0000

My brother had a similar situation — they were still remodeling the place when he and his roommates had to move in or, at that point, start missing their classes. Not only was the space they were working on not functional (including the bathroom), the workers were loud, messy, and smoked in the apartment (which, as tenants, my brother and his roommates were not allowed to do).

He wound up moving out for other reasons, but I’m guessing he’s not too sad about leaving that landlord behind.

By: VZG

VZG — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:45:32 +0000

I’m guessing it’s less about the landlord’s inactivity re: the roaches and more about being lied to about them. I could be wrong, of course, but I know for me there’s a “no roach infestation” rule, given that they’re my biggest fear, and if someone lied about it that alone would be enough to hate him forever. If he didn’t lie and I was in a rough spot and had to take an infested apartment, I wouldn’t expect the problem to disappear, whether he tried to fix it or not.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:27:24 +0000

My landlord wouldn’t even fix the dead light in our stairwell until I told him I’d fallen down the stairs in the dark.

When the last guy moved out, they renovated the kitchen, and told me it would be done when I moved in. That was at the end of September, and I didn’t even get the stove into the kitchen until December (it sat in my living room, which wouldn’t have been awful if it had been electric, but it’s a gas stove). They never finished plastering and painting the walls. There’s pretty extensive water damage on my living room ceiling, and I didn’t get smoke detectors until January – and these are also great because they are RIGHT next to the stove, which doesn’t have a vent. Turn that baby above 400 and those alarms are going off.

By: Chesire cat

Chesire cat — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:25:08 +0000

Oh man that sucks and yeah I totally know how that is. With my friend some horses came with the property when they bought it so she was expected to take care of the horses so that the other family members could ride them. She also was expected to be okay with her family coming over whenever they wanted and being pests. She was also expected to pick up her siblings from school all the time because their Stay at home mother was too busy having lunch with friends or shopping to actually be bothered with picking up her own kids from school. It was a ridiculous living arrangement.

When she got married to a man they did not handpick for her, her dad informed her “Oh congrats on getting married. In that case your rent just went up.” Lovely people. You would think of all people family would treat you the best but unfortunately many people treat their own family the worst just because they can get away with it.

I am very curious what the rental agreement is with the old ladies like if he makes them take care of the horses or if they mind when they come over and ride 4 wheelers on the property or come ride the horses. Sure hope those old ladies are not having lung problems….

By: clumber

clumber — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:29:11 +0000

Sure, I’ll 2nd the motion.

By: clumber

clumber — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:28:13 +0000

CHcat… perhaps with some subtle lighter fluid and a Zippo wrapped in the anonymous letter… just as a *suggestion* of course.

Have lived renting one of the Inlaws’ rental property. You’d think they would be quite responsive to trouble, especially safety ones, from their own flesh & blood right? No, it seemed to mean to them that they didn’t have to do any of the upkeep anymore on the place. Yeah, the impetus for our deciding to buy our own place was the night the garage door pretty much folded up into itself and would not close. It was winter, around 15 degrees (F). When we called them because we had stealable crap in our garage, they suggested one of us just sleep in the open garage to guard the stuff and they’d see if they could come out and check it sometime during the week.
>:(

Our mortgage loves us much more predictably.

By: Chesire cat

Chesire cat — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:41:42 +0000

Wanted to add this story has a happy ending. The little boy is healthy now since they moved away from there.

The landlord/stepdad/grandaddy is one of the greediest, stuck up, assholes I have ever met in my entire life. Just an all around douchenozzle. Slumlords don’t mind screwing over their own family so I guess they definitely don’t mind screwing over strangers. The mold thing was not his only offense just the most sickening.

I asked my friend what happened with that house and she said he moved 3 old ladies into it. I bet anything he didn’t tell them about the mold. Maybe I should leave them an anonymous letter………

By: DistraughtTenant

DistraughtTenant — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:56:50 +0000

@Chris

I moved in right when the complex was brand new. The Biergarten wasn’t even built yet.

I live in a studio. I should’ve stated that I hear bass clearly through the wall instead of a dishwasher…

No, I don’t own a dog.

I’m entitled to be an uptight bitch living here.