Landlord Issues?

I'm at my boyfriend's house and the toilet is backed up so he has to call the landlord. What's the first thing he asks? Did you use a plunger? Nope, didn't even think of that! Silly us. OF COURSE WE DID. Second thing he says: you can't be putting a whole lot down these things. Oh, so I shouldn't have used the toilet as a garbage disposal? My bad. Moron. There, I feel better.

Anyone else have issues with their landlord thinking they are brain dead? less

I'm at my boyfriend's house and the toilet is backed up so he has to call the landlord. What's the first thing he asks? Did you use a plunger? Nope, didn't even think of that! Silly us. OF COURSE WE DID. Second thing he says: you can't be putting a whole lot down these things. Oh, so I shouldn't have used the toilet as a garbage disposal? My bad. Moron. There, I feel better.

Anyone else have issues with their landlord thinking they are brain dead? less

I'm at my boyfriend's house and the toilet is backed up so he has to call the landlord. What's the first thing he asks? Did you use a plunger? Nope, didn't even think of that! Silly us. OF COURSE WE DID. Second thing he says: you can't be putting a whole lot down these things. Oh, so I shouldn't have used the toilet as a garbage disposal? My bad. Moron. There, I feel better.

Anyone else have issues with their landlord thinking they are brain dead? less

Our landlord is an asshat. I can't wait to get out of this hell hole. He could care less to crank up the heat because the tenants who live upstairs will "over heat", so we end up freezing down here. Many things in our apartment fell apart when we first moved in. We have no peephole so we can't see who is knocking at our door and that's a safety issue. Our landlord is the cheapest guy alive. He owns like 40 apartments and owns expensive condos and penthouses downtown(this is what he told us) yet these apartments have a horrible upkeep and his handy man doesn't know what the hell he is doing. He blames us when something breaks or falls apart. Yet it's his horrible handy man that did all the work in this apartment, hence why things are falling apart. So yes I feel the pain your going through. Lol. less

Not if you were one of my tenants. We provide same day fixes for maintenance problems whenever possible. Our maintenance guy lives two blocks away. We only have one building. We just re-landscaped it and renovated all the units except one, where the tenant asked us not to.

We keep our rents below market even though they're nicer than average just to make sure we can rent them quickly when there's a vacancy.

My husband was there yesterday putting together new benches for the patio area. While he was doing that several of the tenants came out to chit chat with him. One of them brought him two slices of pizza. They can't have too low an opinion of us.

You guys should all rent our units. less

I'm not sure what the law is in your state, but the majority have regulations for heating apartments for a portion of the year (for example, October 1 - May 1, i.e. the cold months, landlords must keep the temperature above 68°). If your landlord is not meeting the requirement, you can file a complaint with your local housing authority. less

Our sewage backed up just in time for my son's 2nd birthday party. I went go down stairs and noticed we had about 5" of water throughout the basement. I called for hubby and we thought maybe something was stick in the drain. So we plunged it and everything. After we tried what we could, we call the landlord and he asked the same questions you did. The next day came over with his own plunger and tried the same. And it didn't work. So instead of calling a plumber to fix everything, he goes and gets a snake to see the issue himself, which would have been fine, if he knew about plumbing! The snake he got wasn't long enough to see the issue, so he ended up having to call a plumber. Then finally we found the issue. The piping from the house to the street had busted and wasn't allowing things to pass. So, what does he do? We thought the plumber would fix it because it would be less time consuming, but NO way. This landlord comes over with a shovel and thinks he is going to dig a hole in the place marked where the hole could be. (Mind you, the measurement could have been off and even the plumber said it could be.) So he starts digging all day long. He can't do it because who knew digging a 6ft deep hole with a shovel would be so hard? And when he finally reached the pump after three days of shoveling, he was in the WRONG spot. So he had to call a friend to bring over a backhoe and take more time off work in order to continue fixing the problem. All in all it took over a week and finally he finished fixing it. I was so annoyed! A week we had no toilet in the house. I was pregnant, so I was peeing a lot. We couldn't shower that often or wash dishes or laundry at the house either. We ended up at friends houses for all these things. And running to Wendy's to use the bathroom.

The damned thing too is the landlord knew the pipping needs replaced. It's over 90years old. And he's known ever since he's owned these places that he needs to replace the pipping. He only replaced a small chuck of the pipping. So, eventually he is going to have to do it again.

We also need a new roof and have since I moved here 4 years ago. The roof blew off the one day. And he had to come over. He did it as quick and easy as he could too. I'm so annoyed with our landlord it's ridiculous. We could turn him in for the way the house is. But it's the only place we could afford for a long time. However, we get to move here real soon. I'm super happy. This place is a shit hole! With a crappy landlord who half ass fixes things. less