Ashleigh says her apartment complex in Gainesville, Florida is “notoriously slow” when it comes to repairs. Apparently, some of her neighbors got tired of waiting.
related: Love, the Landlord
Ashleigh says her apartment complex in Gainesville, Florida is “notoriously slow” when it comes to repairs. Apparently, some of her neighbors got tired of waiting.
related: Love, the Landlord
FILED UNDER: Florida · landlords and property managers · stove
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#1
Layla
I really want to know what that second “sentence” is talking about.
Oct 8, 2012 at 3:53 pm rating: 90
#2
KH
My stove doesn’t have any money either.
Oct 8, 2012 at 3:54 pm rating: 90
#3
Polly
Them’s some strong tenants.
Oct 8, 2012 at 4:00 pm rating: 90
#4
Stephanie
It’s “broke”. Is it sitting there panhandling for spare change?
Oct 8, 2012 at 4:03 pm rating: 90
#5
Jareth
Hey, look, appropriate quotation marks!
Oct 8, 2012 at 4:57 pm rating: 90
#6
Karen
I couldn’t figure that out either. Where I live (Ontario) the laws aren’t very tenant-friendly and you aren’t allowed to withhold rent without applying to the tenant board to do so.
Oct 8, 2012 at 8:51 pm rating: 90
#7
Lossy
I hate to see what they would do if the toilet was out……
Oct 8, 2012 at 8:56 pm rating: 90
#8
Ely North
You KNOW they’ve had enough when they actually go through the effort to move the stove outside.
Oct 8, 2012 at 8:58 pm rating: 90
#9
Grammar Popo
Maybe the stove should get a job!
Oct 8, 2012 at 11:23 pm rating: 90
#10
lana
Wait… using the stove or going out to eat are the only two options available? I often go several days without using the stove or oven to prepare meals and still manage to feed myself at home. Microwave, crockpot, BBQ, Foreman grill, SANDWICH, just off the top of my head.
Oct 8, 2012 at 11:55 pm rating: 90
#11
Poltergeist
Yeah, this is a pretty dumb thing to do, but at the same time I know what it’s like to have a landlord who thinks that owning and renting out apartments simply means “People give me money while I don’t do shit.”
Oct 9, 2012 at 12:57 am rating: 90
#12
Karen C
What part of the stove is broken? One burner? All the burners? The oven? The oven timer? I think I would have said what was wrong with the stove. I just ordered parts for mine. Sometimes it is cheaper to just go buy a scratch n dent stove! Looks like a decent stove if it had new parts put in. Good thing my hubby wasn’t there, he’d load it up, fix it and sell it to someone.
Oct 9, 2012 at 7:10 am rating: 90
#13
Adriana
A few years ago, I was living in an apartment when my stove broke. The burners still worked, but the oven released a ‘poof’ and a weird nose, then just turned off. I notified the landlord and he took about 4-5 days just to address the problem, but his genius plan was giving us an old, dirty oven from the vacant upstairs apartment and then moving our clean, but broken oven into our side yard – where it sat for several months, I BELIEVE until we moved out. Every time I looked out my bedroom window, I saw that oven and got angry all over again.
Oct 9, 2012 at 11:39 am rating: 90
#14
Ames
Assuming that the range is broken but still able to be repaired, I hope that the tenants checked the weather forecast before putting that thing outside.
Oct 9, 2012 at 1:47 pm rating: 90
#15
Laura
I’ve never trusted a rental stove — or a landlord, for that matter — again since, many years ago, we rented an apartment with an electric stove and when I lifted up the top to clean under the burners, I discovered at least a half-inch of pure grease sitting there just waiting to start a fire. Clearly, when the landlord “cleaned” the apartment for us, it was cursory at best!
Oct 9, 2012 at 4:04 pm rating: 90
#16
shepd
No wonder the stove won’t make you any meals. You clearly aren’t paying it enough! DUH!!!
Oct 9, 2012 at 5:59 pm rating: 90
#17
Clider
You CAN withold rent only if you put what you are withholding in an escrow account. You can’t just say, “I’m not paying you anymore”, regardless of how the laws are here in Florida.
Oct 9, 2012 at 6:37 pm rating: 90
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