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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on June 16, 2013, 01:43:24 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023027048
Oh my.
xmas74 (24,573 posts) Sun Jun 16, 2013, 10:46 AM
Anyone here ever break a lease? (please read before commenting)
I am currently living in a trailer. I moved in just a few months ago. When I first moved in I knew it wasn't great but it was clean and the flooring looked new. I was promised new screen windows.
Since moving in I've found numerous problems.
1) The windows. We still don't have those screens and can only open a couple of windows, since a couple are all that have screens. Also, the windows are not sealed all that well and every last one of them leaks while it's raining. For those of you who've noticed, Missouri is having a heck of a rainy season this year.
2) The floor. I am finding more and more soft spots every day and the rain isn't helping. In the kitchen it's even worse. I moved the refrigerator and found something unexpected: the fridge was actually balanced on a support beam with vinyl flooring over it. The area around the beam is very soft, almost to the point of completely rotting. And it's spreading.
I also found something else. Underneath the bottom cabinet in the kitchen there was a piece of cardboard with the vinyl flooring attached to it. The cardboard was placed there-no glue, no nails, nothing to keep it in place. When moved it revealed a hole about 18 inches long. You can see the ground under the trailer with that hole.
3) The doors. The outside doors do not seal well when closed. This wasn't noticeable until it started raining. Now every time it rains there is a puddle on the floor inside the trailer.
4) The roof/ceiling. The roof leaks. It leaks enough that there is now what looks almost like a tear in the back bedroom ceiling and what appears to be mold growing around it. I put on some gloves the other day and tried to scrub it with bleach but I think it's too deep to get to. My child and I both have allergies, to the point that she has stayed with my parents. I'm just trying to get through it, though my eyes itch constantly, I'm always hoarse and have a nasty, drippy, congested nose. I've also been waking up with headaches.
5) The water. When I moved in I was informed that water was included with my lot fee, as was trash and lawn. Turns out that isn't the case. I now receive a water bill every month from the management company for the park, averaging about $75. I don't have a washer, no dishwasher and nothing is running. It shouldn't be a very high bill. I was also sent a bill for lawn care-$125. They mowed it only once.
A friend who works in renovation walked through and his personal opinion was that I needed to get out ASAP. He said he didn't think it could be fixed. He said the whole place needed a new subfloor and that can't be done with me there. He also said that he thought it looked like black mold, which means that they would probably have to tear the place down.
So, I have a lease here. Any advice? Can I find someone to rent me a place if I explain the situation about the condition of the place I'm in? And would I still be responsible for the lease? (I can't afford to rent two places.) If taken to court could I possibly win due to the condition of the place? I feel worse and worse every day and I believe it's from the mold growing around the place. I've got to get out soon but if I'm sued and I lose I cannot afford to leave.
SamKnause (716 posts) Sun Jun 16, 2013, 11:37 AM
13. Lease
Have you thought about going to your local news stations ?
xmas74 (24,573 posts) Sun Jun 16, 2013, 11:41 AM
19. Local news stations are an hour away.
And as to the local paper-I really don't want it known the condition of my trailer. If it ever got back to my child's father he could use it against me.
Big campfire, but most of the primitive suggestions are the predictable "call a lawyer."
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Great post by DUmmy xmasnumbers! Hilarious!
Her trailer sounds even worse than poor stupid Beth's, though it's surely bigger.
I hope she keeps us updated on her situation.
Maybe she should have worked a little on her financial circumstances instead of making nearly twenty-five thousand posts at the DUmp.
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Maybe she should have worked a little on her financial circumstances instead of making nearly twenty-five thousand posts at the DUmp.
That's very true, and it applies to a lot of primitives.
One notices the Taverner primitive's still posting as much as ever, despite that his time'd be better spent looking around for a job.
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This DUmmie should ask Nadin about slumlords.
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Almost everything she is bitching about could have been found by a cursory inspection on her part. All she has to do is call the Health Dept.
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It appears a certain DUmmie didn't bother to read the lease agreement. :loser:
(Assuming the DUmmie can read.)
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Almost everything she is bitching about could have been found by a cursory inspection on her part. All she has to do is call the Health Dept.
I was taught by other Military wives that when getting an apartment on short notice how to handle this.
When traipsing about the world or country with kids the parents want something most anything to get a roof over their kids heads. Tired and exhausted from long flights to a new area they don't have time to inspect anything. As long as it has a toilet, kitchen and beds for the first few days, finding out where the stores, schools and what is in walking distance as sometimes it takes 6 weeks to get a car and household belongings to arrive. No time to be looking under the refrig. or examining the screens, or the floor boards.
It takes a few weeks to get settled down, and begin to notice problems with the new apartment or house they rented. This is when if the landlord refuses to fix problems, is when one calls in the city building inspector.
If there is mold, of any kind, wiring problems, or keeps blowing fuses or circut breaker keeps tripping, they will either fine the landlord or move you to a safer place at the landlords expense.
This goes for civilians also, they have the right to get what they pay for renting and expect to rent a safe environment, mostly the law is on the side of the tenants ---- just go to the local library and the librarian's will find for you, your rights you never knew you had. It does not matter what rental agreement one signs drawn up by the landlord, if the agreement goes against the law it is invalid.
I rented out my home a time or two and found myself behind a rock and a hard place.
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How many Dummies read before commenting ?
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xmas74 (24,573 posts) Sun Jun 16, 2013, 10:46 AM
Anyone here ever break a lease? (please read before commenting)
I am currently living in a trailer.
Wait. I thought it was knuckle-dragging Conservatives (not quite 1%ers) who lived in trailers, where we hatched our nefarious plots to start wars, drink beer, smoke cigarettes and deny those outside developed Europe, free health care?
This is at least the sixth primitive who has fessed up to living in a trailer. Which, I really have no problem with as I lived in three different ones in college and still own one that I rent to a friend for a ridiculously low monthly.