Renting=The Suck!

[Bitchamachacha]

Okay..I love my apartment. Even though my neighbors are crack-ish and drops of water fall from the ceiling, I still love the pink trim and hardwood floors, but tonight I got a huge surprise:

http://www.designperch.com/images/lj/ceiling1.jpg

The leaking caused my ceiling to fall in!

http://www.designperch.com/images/lj/ceiling2.jpg

Aiedyn observes the sheet rock and insulation mess on the floor.

http://www.designperch.com/images/lj/ceiling3.jpg

Hmm..perhaps they could turn this into a skylight.

:(

[DipDipDive]

Your landlord sucks.

[zorra_chiflada]

christ, that sucks. are you paying a lot for it? our place sucks as well.

[Bitchamachacha]

My living room before the damage....

http://www.designperch.com/images/photo13.jpg


I should be crying, but when it happened, I laughed my ass off.

Where was Chicken Little when I needed him?

[DipDipDive]

DID THE CARNIVAL GLASS SURVIVE?!

[Bitchamachacha]

Yeah. My Landlord does suck. He hasn't even sent out an electrician to check my heaters after the $800 power bill from winter I busted my ass to pay all summer.



christ, that sucks. are you paying a lot for it? our place sucks as well.

It's $400 a month (keep in mind, I'm in a small town in NC) and it's all hard wood with three bedrooms, dining area, etc. It's very homey, well, with excpetion to the hole in my ceiling. ;)

[Bitchamachacha]

DID THE CARNIVAL GLASS SURVIVE?!

Ha! Oh, yes!

Nothing was damaged. I do have to wash a rug.

My parakeet, however, hid under his food bowl for about thirty minutes. I'm lucky his cage didn't get slammed by the damage.

[HOTWIFE]

It's $400 a month (keep in mind, I'm in a small town in NC) and it's all hard wood with three bedrooms, dining area, etc. It's very homey, well, with excpetion to the hole in my ceiling. ;)
$400 a month!?! I pay more than triple that:( MA sucks ASS.

[DipDipDive]

Ha! Oh, yes!

Nothing was damaged. I do have to wash a rug.

My parakeet, however, hid under his food bowl for about thirty minutes. I'm lucky his cage didn't get slammed by the damage.

Whew.

[Bitchamachacha]

$400 a month!?! I pay more than triple that:( MA sucks ASS.


The pay here sucks, though. So I guess it evens out.

[kaiser soze]

your door is cool, and the mantle too

that sucks it rotted out on you, looks like it stinks too....get a discount on rent for it!

I had the same thing happen to me in a killer walk in closet that also had a bathroom entrance (which also had a hall entrance) in Columbus

the place also became roach infested (from other renters) so we jetted!

hope it gets fixed soon, your place looks quite welcoming without the mess!

[abcdefz]

Glad no one was home (anmd under it) when it fell in.

There's no asbestos, is there?

[QueenAdrock]

Just gotta say, Aiedyn's gotten big! Post more pics pls. (y)

[Bob]

$400 a month!?! I pay more than triple that:( MA sucks ASS.

me too (well, i pay $550 for one room in a 3 bedroom so it's sort of like paying triple that), i'm also (well, will be) in MA. boston, which is even worse as far as rent goes. i assume.

[QueenAdrock]

I'm paying $650 for splitting a 2-br apartment in Montgomery County, which is very, very good. Most of the time to get a place outta the bad parts and have a nice place is around $800. And I'm 5 minutes from the metro. I lucked out!

My friend down in NC has a one-level house with 3 bedrooms and one full bath, backs up to a river. Hardwood floors, ceiling fans, marble fireplace. $1000 a month for rent, which he says is on the "high side."

WTF MANG

[Echewta]

Thats why I think its always important for ladies to have the Time/Life Home Improvement book series. I believe they have a book on ceiling fans which, if you would have read, could have prevented this accident.

[Dr Deaf]

^platinum+ ninja. (y)

renting = teh suck for sure. but, if you owned that mess, you'd be paying out the skrilla to fix it. if your landlord doesn't make repairing it a priority, hold off on sending out your rent cheque for september. that'll get him motivated.

[abcdefz]

if your landlord doesn't make repairing it a priority, hold off on sending out your rent cheque for september. that'll get him motivated.




That's a great way to sacrifice a bunch of your rights, by law. If you're in THe U.S., anyway.

Instead, you keep up your ende of the bargain and document EVERYTHING.

[beastieangel01]

at least no one got hurt! that sucks, though.

[Echewta]

In California, there is a document you have to use to notify your landlord that you are withholding your rent until the repairs are made. Your local library should have a book about renters rights in your state that is pretty easy to use. Just make sure you follow the rules. Renters certainly can't afford the lobby and law makers that landlords can.

[cosmo105]

damn! that makes me feel so lucky. our apartment manager is so nice. when we told him that we thought something in the place was making me sick, he checked all over for it, and his wife had him come by the next day to make sure i was doing okay...really nice people.


i love what you did with the place though! it looks really cute.

[QueenAdrock]

damn! that makes me feel so lucky. our apartment manager is so nice. when we told him that we thought something in the place was making me sick, he checked all over for it, and his wife had him come by the next day to make sure i was doing okay...really nice people.

Yeah, me too. My landlords called to make sure my summer swim pass came in the mail, and to check up how my new job is going. They speak English too, which is a rarity for around here. I like it!

And I too agree that your decorating kicks ass, Steph.

[Dr Deaf]

That's a great way to sacrifice a bunch of your rights, by law. If you're in THe U.S., anyway.


what was the great way to sacrifice all the other rights americans have lost in the last 5 years?

(i am in the US btw.)

:cool:

[abcdefz]

In California, there is a document you have to use to notify your landlord that you are withholding your rent until the repairs are made. Your local library should have a book about renters rights in your state that is pretty easy to use. Just make sure you follow the rules.



Some Nolo Press book?

Are you ready for this? Legal PACs are trying to make self-help legal books illegal and are even trying to make it illegal to represent yourself in court, period. How 'bout that?

"I can see a day coming when even your home garden is gonna be against the law."

[HOTWIFE]

me too (well, i pay $550 for one room in a 3 bedroom so it's sort of like paying triple that), i'm also (well, will be) in MA. boston, which is even worse as far as rent goes. i assume.
Boston is outrageous...good luck finding a reasonable price for a place. We should get together when you get here and like, not meet up cuz we slept too late ahah i funny

[zorra_chiflada]

our landlords are the nastiest, most assholish people i have ever met in my life. they have no sense of common decency or how to be remotely polite. fucking rude cunts.

[Bitchamachacha]

Glad no one was home (anmd under it) when it fell in.

There's no asbestos, is there?

Actually, we were home when it happened....and yeah..we were lucky to not have been standing next to the front door. As for asbestos..I don't think so. I HOPE NOT!


Echewta, what would I do with Time Life's Home Improvement books? Stand on them to reach the ceiling? ;)


Thanks for your "cute" comment, Cosmo. It's hard trying to keep a nice place with a six-year-old who skateboards through the living room.

The sheet rock guy was supposed to come by Friday morning, but showed up unexpectedly that afternoon (I really hate when people do that). He said the roofers would have to come out and fix the leaky roof before he could repair the damage. I hope they get this done quickly. I'm getting tired of dodging the dangling insulation every time I walk through the front door.

[Freebasser]

Mmm... asbestos.

[Justin]

I pay over $1,000 here in pittsburgh for a one bedroom apartment, but its very extravagant so its ok:)

I like the security, quietness, neighbors, parking garage and most importantly the workout room here. Id rather pay more and have alot of ammenities and have no problems than pay less and have nothing and have problems out the A HOLE!


In college i paid $450 (utilities included) but it was over top this furniture place. The landlord was a fat, out of shape, sweaty piece of shit. When I left she didnt return my deposit to me (i checked with the lawyer and discovered id be losing more with him than i would with just the deposit)

My grandfather gave me my deposit money when i moved in. By the time i moved out he was dead so it was like her stealing his money instead of mine. I get irratated just thinking about it now! Fat ass bitch !

[enree erzweglle]

Something like that ceiling thing happened to me when the main stack cracked and gushy water from the third floor found its way out via my first floor living room ceiling. Extensive damage and expensive to resolve, but the way the plaster contoured to try to hold the water initially and then the way it leaked, forming bunches of stalactites, made it look like some sort of intentional abstract plaster art so there was an up side to it and it was a little fascinating. I had to resist the urge to restart the third floor water to watch new formations happen.

Had I been renting, I could have called someone and they would have done the legwork to make the fixes happen. For awhile, I rented lots and from quality agents who responded so nicely to things like that. I guess the key there is having quality agents.

The down side of renting is the possibility of getting loud and/or weird neighbors and finding places that don't have many restrictions wrt pets and kids.

[Bitchamachacha]

So, it's been WAY over a month, and my shit still isn't fixed!

We've had two new maintenance guys since it happened, and though they patched up the roof, they have yet to fix the hole in my ceiling.

The newest guy was supposed to be by yesterday morning, and he never showed. He then said he'd be by last night..no show!

Now I'm waiting again, and still nada.

However, I do have this cool piece of sheet rock in my apt. that stretches from my laundry room into my kitchen, which has been fun to fuck around with:

http://www.designperch.com/images/sheetrock2.jpg
Yes! I love moving this heavy ass shit around to do laundry!

http://www.designperch.com/images/sheetrock1.jpg
Yeah. It's huge.

http://www.designperch.com/images/sheetrock3.jpg
The oh-so retarded "OMG!! Look at what's around the corner of this piece of sheet rock while I chew my nicotine gum" pose.

I wish the asshole would get over here and put it up! GRRR!!

[paul jones]

Okay..I love my apartment. Even though my neighbors are crack-ish and drops of water fall from the ceiling, I still love the pink trim and hardwood floors, but tonight I got a huge surprise:

http://www.designperch.com/images/lj/ceiling1.jpg

The leaking caused my ceiling to fall in!

http://www.designperch.com/images/lj/ceiling2.jpg

Aiedyn observes the sheet rock and insulation mess on the floor.

http://www.designperch.com/images/lj/ceiling3.jpg

Hmm..perhaps they could turn this into a skylight.

:(

fuck! this is awful Steph!....hope it gets fixed soon:(

[Dr Deaf]

how high are your ceilings?

cut out the hole to accomodate the 4x8 sheets. (measure twice cut once)

if you've got 4 2x4s laying around make Ts to hold up the sheets of drywall, drive 40 drywall screws into each of em and you're gold. a small tub of mud and tape to seal the seams, sand smoove and repaint.

you're done!

forreal that should take all of 1.5-2.5 hrs to repair with the help of one other person.

get a case of beer a bucket of chicken and invite some friends over, shit'll get fixed.

[Bitchamachacha]

how high are your ceilings?

cut out the hole to accomodate the 4x8 sheets. (measure twice cut once)

if you've got 4 2x4s laying around make Ts to hold up the sheets of drywall, drive 40 drywall screws into each of em and you're gold. a small tub of mud and tape to seal the seams, sand smoove and repaint.

you're done!

forreal that should take all of 1.5-2.5 hrs to repair with the help of one other person.

get a case of beer a bucket of chicken and invite some friends over, shit'll get fixed.

Ha! I'm down with the beer and chicken, but me putting up sheet rock is like Webster growing a few more inches. It ain't gonna happen. ;)

The guys and their freakin' wives did put the sheet rock up last night, but they stil have to mud and sand. They are doing a really crappy job.