Heres the deal my husband and I rented a house from a friend of a friend(so we thought we could trust this guy WRONG). We rented this house sight unseen because we were coming from California to North Carolina. And we had a family emergencies mid move. It could be a nice house if 1. there wasnt a flee infestation in the house when we moved in. 2. gee how about if the molding on the door way, and everywhere didnt just start falling down. 3. how about if the chair rails didnt keep falling down. 4. maybe if the supposid brand new back porch wasnt about to fall to the ground in to pieces. 5. the 6 ft privacy fence that was just put up 6 months ago wouldnt keep falling down in sections and maybe the asshole could have finished painting it. 6. maybe the mother fucker could have informed us that all the windows were painted shut. 7. how about the fireplace which I had to call the fire department about yesturday gee you think that he could have atleast told that he was endangering my entire family. to many more to mention. Here is my rant: YOU STUPID MOTHER FUCKER you know who you are and you are going to be in town in just 5 more days I am going to kick your fucking ass how dare you endanger my children and just for your information you will pay dearly no matter what it takes. You will be lucky to walk away being male I think we aught to cut you fucking testicles of then maybe you would learn some kind of respect for other people.
I am not a lawyer, but:
I would think that the first thing you ought to do would be to research landlord/tenant law in your area. Many places have Tenant’s Rights organizations that can outline your rights and you landlord’s obligations in a plain-language fashion. Alternatively, you could probably research the statutes on-line yourself (I think there are even some national Tenant’s Rights Web sites that have local laws), or, if you’re willing to set out a little cash, a half-hour consultation with a lawyer might be in order.
I would think (Warning! IANAL!) that the next step would be to document everything that is wrong with the house and present the list to your landlord with the request to make repairs in a timely fashion. The “timely fashion,” though, is the trick. To me, with something that is a safety hazard such as painted-shut windows, a timely fashion would be RIGHT NOW. I don’t know what the legal requirement is, though, so it behooves you to find out yourself for sure.
Many areas have some sort of statute that would allow you to withold rent payments until repairs are made. This right is subject to certain restrictions, so again, you better know your local laws before doing anything.
The object here, of course, is that you want to force your landlord to correct defects in the property you are renting. Hold his feet to the fire on this; don’t accept unsafe and substandard conditions. But make sure you have a firm legal footing.
And when you’re done with that, could you learn how to use the apostrophe key when typing conjunctions?
And maybe even a spell check would be good.
Oh and if it’s not too much trouble, how about learning proper capitalization?
move the fuck out if you don’t like it! what, did you sign a long-term lease without looking at it? if you did, than you deserve what you got!
ahhhh…i ain’t got time for this, im goin’ to lunch!
Living in a dump sucks. Our last rental place looked great until we moved in. Then we discovered that the oven didn’t work. The dishwasher didn’t work. The kitchen sink didn’t drain. The basement flooded. The upstairs bathroom floor tiles started popping out. The sliding glass door’s handle was broken off and didn’t open, nor did it fully close. It took 5 months to get a new sliding glass door, the other stuff was never fixed in the 2 years we lived there.
I’m so glad we own our own house now.
(oh, and we couldn’t move because A) other stuff was too expensive, not to mention the cost of moving B) we had a lot of aminals and no one else wanted to let us rent with so many and C) the rental market was insane in that area, and nothing ever lasted long enough to even look at)
Conjunctions? Try contractions.