what would U DO...???

[pappy masonjar]

I see your points. I apologize if Icame off as a dick. I recently had a bad experience starting my first thread, and i probably was projecting my defensiveness. If that makes sense.

YB- I hope it comes together for ya bro. scumlords should replace all pot prisoners!

 

[justpassnthru]

Call the landlord and ask to have a window unit in, asap for you and the baby. Or, those portable units on wheels, I have one, I used last year--easy, simple and cool.

Ask your landlord to buy a window unit or portable a/c unit or put you and the family up in a motel. Usually, a motel or a/c unit is cheaper than a liability suit for damages.

Hope you cool off soon. jpt

 

[ronbo51]

There is a safety/merchantability clause in every lease. If the house is made unliveable, unsafe, the lease is void and you can be evicted. The other side of this coin is that you are paying rent and the landlord is responsible for making the house liveable/safe. Use some of the suggestions here as well as any you can think of and go negotiate an outcome in your favor. At the very least you should be credited for the rent during this period. Go advocate for yourself. As a tenant you do have rights. Just be friendly and firm and stay focused on problem solving. Good luck. BTW, in your negaotiations you should have the sparky go over all the basic electrical systems to prove any other half baked shit has not been done.

 

[soursmoker]

not one anyones side, and I am not scared to say that I am "THIS" generation...

BUT, for one, I will say MY generation sucks... people have no morals...

I think the easiest way to figure this out is 35 years ago they used PISTOLS for a LB...

Now kids are running up with an UZI for a QP... in a fucking med AND recreational state... at that... there is probably herb EVERYWHERE...

there will always be scumbags but there are many more nowadays and they have even less morals then before...

I dunno about this generation being any worse than previous. I had a pistol stuck in my face in St. Barbara over a lb 35 years ago. I know it will all work out in the end, in your favor. Best vibes man.............

now for your situation yort, i feel for you bro...

my current place is a rental and the landlords decided to tell us in the beginning of the summer that after the next lease we were about to renew that was our last year here.. next year it will be on market for sale...

shortly after that we find out we have had a major plumbing problem the whole time we have been living there that they were aware of and failed to tell us about... this resulted in sewage pipes clogging and backing up into crawlspace, resulting in mold and nasty shit...

I am not racist here, but they are such jews (they aren't actually jewish, just cheap) that they wouldn't pay the hazardous company to clean it out because it was SO expensive and they decided to wait for the sewage to settle in the soil and then cover it up with some lime.... WTF can't do anything about it really though because we grow, IN a NON-med state, and we have to save up for our next place so we aren't paying for the expensive clean up and we can take legal actions against them...

Basically life sucks, but remember, it could always be worse...

not saying my situation is worse than yours but just keep your head up and you will get through it...

you have plenty of options.. $ rules in this world and sounds like you are not really short of it...

you will make it...

keep on truckin'

Oh and be thankful the wifey is willing to work all day while you sit at home, I know kids are not the easiest but it is rare to find women willing to work... sounds like you found a good one...

 

[hush]

Very simply, and very professionally, send a certified letter with delivery confirmation to the management company stating that, in compliance with the landlord-tenant act, you will be withholding rent until the problems are fixed, and you will be pro-rating the amount of rent based on the amount of time your house is "unusable." Also put a little clause in there that says how the above can be circumvented by the management company putting you and your family in a hotel.

Then, at the bottom of the letter, you say "You hereby have 7 days to respond to this letter. Otherwise I will assume you are agreeing to an ending of our contract, in which case I and the family will move out within 30 days, and you can send my security deposit to..."

Then, if they try to withhold your security deposit, you do the whole thing again, sending a certified letter with delivery confirmation, stating "you hereby have 7 days to return my security deposit, in full, or I will be filing with small claims court."

Management companies don't like being taken to court. Private landlords might take up the fight, but companies usually don't, especially when they are in the wrong.

Good luck to you. I had a slum lord once, and my wife and I were forced to do all the research we could in order to fight things properly. That's how I learned what I've told you here. It worked for us. And my wife was so inspired by the process of researching laws and statutes that she subsequently went back to school and became a paralegal, because she was really good at researching laws.

Anyway, good luck to you brother.

 

[yortbogey]

certified letter has been set on TUES.day....
they have already dropped the ball in that sense....

i'm hearing now that repairs cant even begin until WED of next week....

waiting on answer over hotel ... right now

looking for another home also..... VERY VERY hard in this area.... less than 2% availability in the rental market hear..... lot of slumlords and a lot of OVERpriced crap.....

 

[justpassnthru]

Yortbogey; At this point, in the heat this week...this must be horrible for your family and you. I feel for you and the family.

soursmoker:

Oh and be thankful the wifey is willing to work all day while you sit at home, I know kids are not the easiest but it is rare to find women willing to work... sounds like you found a good one...

I'd address that, but it would be thread jacking! jpt

 

[Stoner4Life]

certified letter has been set on TUES.day....
they have already dropped the ball in that sense....

i'm hearing now that repairs cant even begin until WED of next week....

waiting on answer over hotel ... right now

looking for another home also..... VERY VERY hard in this area.... less than 2% availability in the rental market hear..... lot of slumlords and a lot of OVERpriced crap.....

you can walk into banks & still drive a bargain on foreclosures. if you've been paying rent & utilities on time you'd probably qualify in short order yort. I don't know exactly where you are but all banks are able to qualify & close 'in house,' meaning w/out them having to sell the loan on the secondary mtg market (F Mac, Mae etc) in advance.

Fast closings are thhe current rave for bankers now having to pay: taxes, utilities (water & electric is a must for showing/selling a house), insurance and any potential maintenance issues that arise over the time they own it.

They want these properties sold fast, these homes are not always listed for sale via real estate agencies because then the bank would need to pay 7% commission on top of the loss they're going to incur upon sale. Most states allow banks a 'specialized brokers license' for real estate sales ~~ same with lawyers 'sbl' sales allowed.

Hope this helps a bit to overcome the odds of finding a suitable home on/in the market where you are. if you contact some banks you'll likely be shopping ahead of the curve in your locale.

Plan B for your current situation.

buy or rent a large enough generator to power your needs, sell it when you're done or keep it as a permanent plan B; figure it all in with an a/c unit, by a big one, again you can sell it when you're done or keep it. My large window a/c cools the whole house on the hottest days & it's over 20 years old.

 

[Grass Lands]

I just went thru a month of hell with my current property owner...AC has been on the blink. Every time it did not work correctly I was on the phone, she finally got tired of my persistent bugging the shit out of her and had the repair company install a new unit...talk about shitting bricks, two rooms full of ladies had to be stashed in the garage while they did the install and pressure test...anyways the way I see it, the more you bug them the faster it will get fixed.

 

[yortbogey]

had a long arrgument w/ the m,anagment co....
they have sum clause / loophole in there contract w/ said owner to alleviate them of there overall responsibility.... thus pushing the liability issue back on the landlord...
WHO is quickly becoming a PITA over the whole thing.... refused to pay for hotel...

and the work cant even start until next WED.... funny have family from Canada coming next weekend for daughters 1st B-day..... this is going to SUX

on the bright-side.... I'm viewing a REMODELED house on 3 acres right out of town this afternoon ...

fingers and toes crossed for a "goodone".....

 

[Morcheeba*]

see if they will rent you a RV. its not home but not hot either.


peace

 

[yortbogey]

see if they will rent you a RV. its not home but not hot either.


peace

BEST ~IDEA~YET....

 

[justpassnthru]

Update? If they rented you an RV, I imagine you are busy hauling everything you haul In..back out! The joy of RV life!jpt

 

[BigSteve]

I just noticed this page. I wanted to say I hope things have got better! I know it's a landlordy kinda state here in Washington.( i think you were from Washington?) I've had some bad luck but nothing like this.

I have a 6 month old child. I couldn't stay somewhere without AC! He is so sensitive, he barely gets hot and he will FREAK! Develop a huge heat rash and be evil for quite a while. If it was my baby, I would send the plants to a friends house for a while so I could focus on my little homie! Maybe your baby is more resistant though, he is older.

Let us know how this worked out for you.

 

[Bag]

updates yo ?