Rÿcher
Fleet Captain
my landlord is a lazy a-hole. He won't shovel off the roof. It's got nearly a foot of snow and ice on it and he knows the ceilings in the house are prone to cracking and leaking. The other day, my wife had the shove the front door with her shoulder like a linebacker to get through the ice that's built up just to get out. The driveway is a sheet of ice two inches thick and he refuses to come sprinkle sand.
He refuses to make any kinds of repairs to the house whatsoever. The house's wiring is all FUBARed. There are three apartments, two of which share electricity and the studio next door is being shafted because some of their outlets are on our side but we didn't learn that until very recently and they're moving out in a week. The landlord made an appointment with the power company to come out to come see what can be done. The power company showed up but he "forgot". He didn't reschedule.
Tonight a breaker died and our dishwasher (that we own) isn't working because of it. He says that Monday he'll come over and take a look.
He leaves us notes on how to save heat by putting plastic over the windows and limit our showers and limit our heating expenditures but he downright refuses to even consider vinyl replacement windows. You can tell how old these windows are from the amount the glass has run. Anyone who knows about glass knows it's an amorphous solid and will run after a time creating sags like plastic exposed to heat. So, the glass is about 50+ years old with the original frames.
We have bats, mice, wasps, ants. He doesn't do anything about them except give us a maximum of two small 2" x 2" rat poison bait traps and a can of wasp spray.
There are at least two areas of the bedroom where the flooring are soft enough where, if you stepped, your foot would sink in a good 4 or so inches so if you don't expect it, you could trip and break your ankle or worse. We've let him know this on a number of occasions and he's done nothing. We've tried making due by putting our bed (a king size) over these spots to limit foot traffic over them. Seems to work okay but I fear that the holes might be a symptom of a bigger problem - mold or termites or something.
Here's one more thing and this is a pissah: He raised the rent because of the high price of heating oil and said in writing that when oil prices go down, our rent will also go down. That was when oil prices were in the high $3 range. $3.90's I guess. Thing is, this apartment gets the receipts from the oil guy when he's through delivering the oil. The amount he's paying is only like $2.86. The landlord's excuse; He's trapped in a payment arrangement with the oil company. He locked in at that high price and since he's making payments instead of paying by credit, he still has to pay the higher price. I thought that when you lock in, you automatically get the lower price when the price drops or is he feeding is a bunch of week-old bullshit?
I'm considering putting all this into a letter to someone - I don't know who yet. I wouldn't even know who to address it to.
And here's another thing: Me coming from foster care - granted, that was 15 some years ago but it still lingers with me, unstable living environments and everything, I don't want to make waves. I have a warm, stable place to live. Who am I to ruffle feathers? But I am getting so frustrated with all this BS of his that I can't stand it anymore and I abhor having to move yet again.
someone please help
He refuses to make any kinds of repairs to the house whatsoever. The house's wiring is all FUBARed. There are three apartments, two of which share electricity and the studio next door is being shafted because some of their outlets are on our side but we didn't learn that until very recently and they're moving out in a week. The landlord made an appointment with the power company to come out to come see what can be done. The power company showed up but he "forgot". He didn't reschedule.
Tonight a breaker died and our dishwasher (that we own) isn't working because of it. He says that Monday he'll come over and take a look.
He leaves us notes on how to save heat by putting plastic over the windows and limit our showers and limit our heating expenditures but he downright refuses to even consider vinyl replacement windows. You can tell how old these windows are from the amount the glass has run. Anyone who knows about glass knows it's an amorphous solid and will run after a time creating sags like plastic exposed to heat. So, the glass is about 50+ years old with the original frames.
We have bats, mice, wasps, ants. He doesn't do anything about them except give us a maximum of two small 2" x 2" rat poison bait traps and a can of wasp spray.
There are at least two areas of the bedroom where the flooring are soft enough where, if you stepped, your foot would sink in a good 4 or so inches so if you don't expect it, you could trip and break your ankle or worse. We've let him know this on a number of occasions and he's done nothing. We've tried making due by putting our bed (a king size) over these spots to limit foot traffic over them. Seems to work okay but I fear that the holes might be a symptom of a bigger problem - mold or termites or something.
Here's one more thing and this is a pissah: He raised the rent because of the high price of heating oil and said in writing that when oil prices go down, our rent will also go down. That was when oil prices were in the high $3 range. $3.90's I guess. Thing is, this apartment gets the receipts from the oil guy when he's through delivering the oil. The amount he's paying is only like $2.86. The landlord's excuse; He's trapped in a payment arrangement with the oil company. He locked in at that high price and since he's making payments instead of paying by credit, he still has to pay the higher price. I thought that when you lock in, you automatically get the lower price when the price drops or is he feeding is a bunch of week-old bullshit?
I'm considering putting all this into a letter to someone - I don't know who yet. I wouldn't even know who to address it to.
And here's another thing: Me coming from foster care - granted, that was 15 some years ago but it still lingers with me, unstable living environments and everything, I don't want to make waves. I have a warm, stable place to live. Who am I to ruffle feathers? But I am getting so frustrated with all this BS of his that I can't stand it anymore and I abhor having to move yet again.
someone please help
