ohiolandlord
02-09-2006, 05:43 PM
When we first moved in the previous tenants had drilled a hole in the living room directly outside to bring in a satelite I assume. This hole is about an inch in diameter and you could see a bug parade from day one. The landlord has promised to fix this... To this day after several reminders he has not...
December (just before Chrustmas) We got a heavy snow... Next thing we know the ceiling is dripping in our kitchen (near our skylight) so we put a pot under neath to pick up the drips and tried to keep our cat from drinking the yucky water. The maintenance guy comes out (while we were at work though) and leaves us a note saaying they cant fix anything on the roof until April because the epoxy they use to seal the roof has to be done with 24 hours of above freezing temperatures... I understood this, so we just tried to deal with the drips...
Then in February (now our ceiling in our kitchen is all brown and disgusting and starting to smell mildewey) It snows real heavy again and we get ALOT of water dripping. We couldn't even cook dinner that night because it was raining in our kitchen. We call the night maintenance man and he came over and dry vacced our kitchen floor and said they would come over tomorrow to fix it as best as they could... No one came over the next day or the day after that... A week later (with no phone call or notice of anykind) we come home to a complete disaster. They tore half the drop ceiling out of our kitchen (insulation and all) and it was RAINING all over our kitchen. We had a few inches of water everywhere in our kitchen and it was going into our living room and dining room carpet... You could feel a heavy draft... It was HORRIBLE. So we call the night guy and he says thats the best they can do until April again. I tell them that is NOT acceptable, so a week later around 7 AM I get woken up to what I thought was the end of the world! They were stomping around on the roof for hours! Then another week later (with minimal new leaking and again no phone call or notice of any kind) They come and begin to put in a new ceiling... Since I was no longer exposed to the elements I began to ignore this problem... Fast forward to July...
Still have not cosmetically fixed my ceiling and it still drips every now and then... I had been so busy planning my wedding that I put this on my back burner.., One day I look up and there is mold,,,, mold everywhere dark green and black mold. EVERYWHERE! We call the landlord to freak out and he says it is just "surface mold" and sent a guy out (again with out notice he was coming) to bleach our ceiling... The Mold is back again though and I am concerned about my health...fast forward to last night...
I go into the linen cabinet to get a clean blanket to find it is FLOODED! all my towels soaked, Duvets and bed spreads SOAKED! blankets and my (fairly expensive) knee brace and heating pad soaked.
Needless to say I freaked, called to have the night guy paged at 8 pm... They say he will be right over.. great... I go to sleep, but FI stays up waiting for him... 10 no guy yet, calls again to have him paged. He was told he was paged twice already for us, but they page him again.... then at 12 still no guy! call back, page him again, he calls back and says "cant help you at night" that would have been good information 5 hours ago!!!!!!!
Im at my wits end... I am out about 500 bucks in stuff that was in my linen cabinet that was trashed. I am unsure of my renters insurance covering this because it was not a natural disater...
We have documented pictures all the way. What can we do? We want things fixed RIGHT and I feel I am now owed some money. I do not know what my rights are, and I feel I have been very patient.
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In Ohio, if the landlord is not fixing things around your apartment, you can find your remedies in our FAQ section at http://www.ohiolandlordtenant.com/faq2.html
You can read up on more of your rights as a tenant by downloading our book online at http://www.ohiolandlordtenant.com/book.html
December (just before Chrustmas) We got a heavy snow... Next thing we know the ceiling is dripping in our kitchen (near our skylight) so we put a pot under neath to pick up the drips and tried to keep our cat from drinking the yucky water. The maintenance guy comes out (while we were at work though) and leaves us a note saaying they cant fix anything on the roof until April because the epoxy they use to seal the roof has to be done with 24 hours of above freezing temperatures... I understood this, so we just tried to deal with the drips...
Then in February (now our ceiling in our kitchen is all brown and disgusting and starting to smell mildewey) It snows real heavy again and we get ALOT of water dripping. We couldn't even cook dinner that night because it was raining in our kitchen. We call the night maintenance man and he came over and dry vacced our kitchen floor and said they would come over tomorrow to fix it as best as they could... No one came over the next day or the day after that... A week later (with no phone call or notice of anykind) we come home to a complete disaster. They tore half the drop ceiling out of our kitchen (insulation and all) and it was RAINING all over our kitchen. We had a few inches of water everywhere in our kitchen and it was going into our living room and dining room carpet... You could feel a heavy draft... It was HORRIBLE. So we call the night guy and he says thats the best they can do until April again. I tell them that is NOT acceptable, so a week later around 7 AM I get woken up to what I thought was the end of the world! They were stomping around on the roof for hours! Then another week later (with minimal new leaking and again no phone call or notice of any kind) They come and begin to put in a new ceiling... Since I was no longer exposed to the elements I began to ignore this problem... Fast forward to July...
Still have not cosmetically fixed my ceiling and it still drips every now and then... I had been so busy planning my wedding that I put this on my back burner.., One day I look up and there is mold,,,, mold everywhere dark green and black mold. EVERYWHERE! We call the landlord to freak out and he says it is just "surface mold" and sent a guy out (again with out notice he was coming) to bleach our ceiling... The Mold is back again though and I am concerned about my health...fast forward to last night...
I go into the linen cabinet to get a clean blanket to find it is FLOODED! all my towels soaked, Duvets and bed spreads SOAKED! blankets and my (fairly expensive) knee brace and heating pad soaked.
Needless to say I freaked, called to have the night guy paged at 8 pm... They say he will be right over.. great... I go to sleep, but FI stays up waiting for him... 10 no guy yet, calls again to have him paged. He was told he was paged twice already for us, but they page him again.... then at 12 still no guy! call back, page him again, he calls back and says "cant help you at night" that would have been good information 5 hours ago!!!!!!!
Im at my wits end... I am out about 500 bucks in stuff that was in my linen cabinet that was trashed. I am unsure of my renters insurance covering this because it was not a natural disater...
We have documented pictures all the way. What can we do? We want things fixed RIGHT and I feel I am now owed some money. I do not know what my rights are, and I feel I have been very patient.
__________________________________________
In Ohio, if the landlord is not fixing things around your apartment, you can find your remedies in our FAQ section at http://www.ohiolandlordtenant.com/faq2.html
You can read up on more of your rights as a tenant by downloading our book online at http://www.ohiolandlordtenant.com/book.html