QueenAdrock
06-25-2007, 09:29 AM
C-I-L-L MY LANDLORD! Seriously, what a skeezeball. Get a load of this.
A pipe burst in my house May 20, a pipe he had been "meaning to replace" for a couple months. The entire bottom of the house was flooded in 6 inches of water - this includes a den (pool table + tv + couches), and 2 bedrooms that people are living in. Everyone in the house has to evacuate for two days (had to shut off the water to fix it), and then we come back and my two downstairs roommates are out of a place to live for A MONTH. He doesn't put in carpet or tiling until a month later! So we demand a rent credit.
He calls us and says $500 off, because there were two bedrooms downstairs that were unusable, but one of those people could move up to the guest bedroom for the month. So he's only going to take off $500 for the ONE bedroom because of that, they definitely had nowhere to live. He's not even taking into account that we couldn't use the den AT ALL, nor the fact that every single person in the house was evacuated for 2 days (which is about $100 in rent). Oh, plus, we're paying 3x the electric bill because he wanted to try to salvage the carpets at first, and plugged in industrial dryers which blew night and day for 5 days straight. We're not charging him for that because we're in charge of electric, but that's still VERY shitty, esp. since we ended up throwing away the carpets.
Also, he's charging us for other miscellaneous repairs. We have written in our contract that we pay $60 of each repair - he's making us pay for the sliding back door he replaced (with a door that DOESN'T FIT and was free from his house), a light fixture, and he replaced a flap thingee in all of the toilets when a) we only told him it was one toilet that was running and b) that one flap should have cost $15. So even if he charges us for 3, it shouldn't be more than $45.
I'm not even sure legally what he's allowed to demand and what we're allowed to demand, but everything I'm demanding seems reasonable. Receipts for the repairs he did and justification, money off for the den that was unusable, money off for the bedrooms that were unusable and how long they were unusable. I'm so ready to yell at him though. :mad:(n)
A pipe burst in my house May 20, a pipe he had been "meaning to replace" for a couple months. The entire bottom of the house was flooded in 6 inches of water - this includes a den (pool table + tv + couches), and 2 bedrooms that people are living in. Everyone in the house has to evacuate for two days (had to shut off the water to fix it), and then we come back and my two downstairs roommates are out of a place to live for A MONTH. He doesn't put in carpet or tiling until a month later! So we demand a rent credit.
He calls us and says $500 off, because there were two bedrooms downstairs that were unusable, but one of those people could move up to the guest bedroom for the month. So he's only going to take off $500 for the ONE bedroom because of that, they definitely had nowhere to live. He's not even taking into account that we couldn't use the den AT ALL, nor the fact that every single person in the house was evacuated for 2 days (which is about $100 in rent). Oh, plus, we're paying 3x the electric bill because he wanted to try to salvage the carpets at first, and plugged in industrial dryers which blew night and day for 5 days straight. We're not charging him for that because we're in charge of electric, but that's still VERY shitty, esp. since we ended up throwing away the carpets.
Also, he's charging us for other miscellaneous repairs. We have written in our contract that we pay $60 of each repair - he's making us pay for the sliding back door he replaced (with a door that DOESN'T FIT and was free from his house), a light fixture, and he replaced a flap thingee in all of the toilets when a) we only told him it was one toilet that was running and b) that one flap should have cost $15. So even if he charges us for 3, it shouldn't be more than $45.
I'm not even sure legally what he's allowed to demand and what we're allowed to demand, but everything I'm demanding seems reasonable. Receipts for the repairs he did and justification, money off for the den that was unusable, money off for the bedrooms that were unusable and how long they were unusable. I'm so ready to yell at him though. :mad:(n)