Moving is always awful and stressful, and bonny has a wonderful and conveniently located place. It sucks to have to have to bring on the authorities when it really would have been so much easier for all parties if the landlord had just done what he was supposed to do. Good grief, it is not only to provide a safe environment for the tenant, but to protect his investment. Decent maintenance and prevention is a whole lot less expensive than a roof collapsing.
I hope that an ideal housing option presents itself, and quickly.
Nephew reports very good. After a week his numbers are near normal. Now rehab to regain his strength. It has been a huge help that he was in such good shape to begin with. Other than his back aches (likely caused from lifting and doing stuff he shouldn't), he is super healthy. Good weight and does physical work. His wife is ms organic earth mom with growing and canning/freezing their food. Most of the meat/eggs/poultry they consume comes from hunting or from the family ranch next door. So generally really healthy living. It would not have been so good an outcome if he hadn't been so strong. Bodies, they be fragile.
That's great news, Laura. I hope your nephew's rehab goes smoothly.
Nephew reports very good.
That is so wonderful to hear!!
Yep, Laura has the right of it.
Simply maintaining what is an incredibly valuable resource, given the trajectory of the neighborhood's fortunes would just have been common sense.
That sense is not present in that particular human.
bonny! My sister in winter landlord . . . well "shenanigans" is too light a word.
I'm not sure the dcra will condemn the building because, honestly, in terms of slums, it could be much worse. Uncomfortable doesn't equal inhabitable.
The entire building doesn't have to be condemned for you to get out of this, and not even your apartment. DC is a very tenant-friendly place to rent. The warranty of habitability is a legal term of art, and the clinic will be able to explain how it applies to your situation.
Please read DC's Tenant Survival Guide, Section 3 "Repairs". [link]
From the intro:
District of Columbia laws require your landlord to provide
apartments that are in a safe, habitable and livable
condition. The landlord has a duty to make all repairs
necessary to make buildings and apartments habitable.
D.C. law also requires landlords to maintain buildings
and apartments according to many established standards,
including the Housing Code Standards listed below. The
Housing Regulation and Enforcement Division of the Housing Regulation Administration, a part of the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) is responsible for administering the D.C. Housing Code and related regulations.
For more information on the D.C. Housing Code, refer to >Title 14 of the D.C. Municipal Regulations. You can request
a copy of the D.C. Housing Code by contacting the Housing Inspection Section of the Housing Regulation Administration at DCRA at (202) 442-4400.
edited for wonky formatting.
IANAL, but pouring water from the ceiling onto your bed and other possessions and the water heater and the wiring does not seem to me to fall under the category of "habitable".
Bonny, listen to Maria.
Has anyone else's Spring Allergies kicked in? Because this cold is starting to feel more like allergies, which seems unfair while the snow banks on my front lawn are still taller than me.
The places where I get stuck are when somebody says something, in a situation where I do actually know more, for whatever reason(I end up ceding a lot of economic arguments, because I'm not confident enough to argue them unless I have back-up) but sometimes I pass on my info that pretty much says they're wrong, but they stick to their dumb theory(Most recently, the absence of tests revealing date-rape drugs proves that Bill Cosby is being hassled by The Man..)
I thought I would kill that guy or myself before that "conversation" was finished, just because I couldn't believe someone could live as such a numbnuts(And then, I chuckled and thought "This must be what Keith Olbermann feels every day."
Seriously, I have seen people put in less work defending their own fathers than this guy because of the Dr. Huxtable thing...it's hard not to say "you know, he's not really your dad, right?"
