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I’ve been brushed off when it comes to home-rental repairs. A leaking roof during the rainy season isn’t something you can brush off! You’re asking for trouble… talk about inviting mold problems! Leaking pipes… same thing.
I’ve been brushed off when it comes to home-rental repairs. A leaking roof during the rainy season isn’t something you can brush off! You’re asking for trouble… talk about inviting mold problems! Leaking pipes… same thing.
Yikes. If there is a leak on the unpainted inside of the wall. And the painted outside looks as bad as it does from mold seeping through. The inside will look a hundred times worse.
Mr. Google ought to know a couple attorneys specializing in asbestos & other biohazards.
My sister had a landlord like that. They ended up making repairs themselves and deducting it from their rent check since he would never fix anything.
Meem… Yah, me and my roomie had to do the same thing… we called someone to tarp the roof… and eventually, since the owners wouldn’t pay the bill, we deducted it from the rent. They warn’t too happy.
And… if you make cartoonists mad, they write it into their comics! I’ve written about “landlord lackadaisicalness” many a time!
Stick… Yah… it’s a building that is slated for “being no more”… but you know how that is… it may not happen for 20 years or so! So nobody wants to deal with any biohazards or leaks or anything. That’s the down-side… the upside is cheapo rent.
I called my landlord regarding a similar problem. He referred me to a “Mr. Go-@#%$-yourself”.
Sneaky susicion Randie is subletting illegally, so she won’t have any recourse there. Otherwise she could bug the management. The fact she does’t even think to call them hints at one of those “wink-wink” deals, wherein they know she knows they know she’s there and not the leased tenant. Ah, well.Time to move on? She could always get a place with…GRACE…
Dada… Gasp!
EofO… I don’t think that it much matters if Randie is subletting illegally as the building is kind of, well, a mess. and lodge with Grace? Good Lord!
Never rent from little old ladies–my last two insisted we do the repairs (with their crappy paint, etc.) and then wouldn’t take it off the rent. I even had to pay the electric leftovers for another tenant because one wouldn’t, and we weren’t living there yet! It was our electric that would get turned off otherwise. Another wouldn’t have the septic tank cleaned even thoough it was backing up into the house. I finally did it and took it off the rent, and you should have heard the griping! Our current guy is a doll and fixes things right away, bless his little landlordy heart!!
FUH! Ruth, that sounds awful. Well, it makes you appreciate the NICE landlords, don’t it?
I was renting a house in England and it only had a 20 gallon hot water heater. If I wanted to take a bath, I had to run the hot water until it cooled off, then wait 20 minutes for the water to heat up again to finish filling the tub. Showers lasted 3 minutes or less!
I used to have a landlord who was very efficient. Unfortunately he would enter the apartment
un-anounced which created some akward moments. At least he took care of things quickly.
Joe… Sponge baths… at least the washcloth would be warm.
Squidman… there’s some legal problematic-ness about your landlord just showing up whenever.