my previous post from yesterday https://lemmy.ml/post/49529603
The good news I guess is that the timer starts on monday because the 3rd is the jurisdictional court’s (might as well say Riverside County, CA) holiday for the 4th. And after my last post I went and bought a security camera, so worst case I can document my window being closed if I want to be a stupid coward that lets bullies play Calvinball with signed contracts against me. With my fucking life.
And it’s just really important to me that the window stay open in my room. It’s a whole list of deal breakers.
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I don’t want to get fucking covid from the 8 other units filled with people here because I’m the last weirdo that goes to work and the store with a mask on. When I keep the window closed because of paranoia over this conflict, I feel like I need to mask in my own bedroom. And that’s fucked.
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This luxurious closet sized bedroom is too small for a full sized person and two large cats to live on top of each other. They need to be able to lay out on the patio and enjoy life. And they need to be able to run back inside if something scares them, like the many coyote that have wilderness right fucking next door and I have seen in our back yard with my cats running from them. Can’t do ‘open it when they want back in’ no how, no way. (There’s also a giant drama about gates that enclose a section of the yard that apparently me closing them at night drives them into a steaming rage but keeps my guys safe)
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There’s 80 pounds of goddamned cat litter right next to the window and 8 feet from where I sit at the computer and sleep. I need the ventilation.
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I LIKE THE FRESH AIR.
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The A/C is too fucking cold anyway
In addition to buying the security camera (fuck I need an sd card of course it’s separate) I also started looking for a new place to be miserable with a live-in landlord for too goddamned much money. But this shit is on a timeline WAY faster than that. Fuck.
So I don’t want to be cowed by this. But I also don’t want to get my life all fucked up by it. I don’t want this demon to steal a whole month’s rent (waited until the day after I paid this month’s rent the fucking parasite) AND a 600 dollar penalty if I lose. Not to mention paying 4x what I can afford for an extended stay room…
I’m completely in the right but on the other hand do you think the judge rents, or do you think it’s more likely they have some rental properties of their own and all their sentiments are with the law breaker psycho landlord?
Anyway this is my panic attack post
edit: I am purposefully not engaging with any comments on the subject of whether or not my landlord has a genuine gripe about me having my window open and my door closed in a room that does not have a temperature sensor for the A/C system. I offered to close the vent. I offered to have my rent raised to compensate. All was ignored. It’s about power tripping. So this post is about my rights in the face of that.
Don’t have advice but came here to say fuck your landlord and I hope things work out for you ❤️
This is not legal advice but in California, the landlord of a rooming house (which it sounds like you are in) has the right to make reasonable house rules and “keep the windows closed when the AC is on” is generally recognized as reasonable rule. Its unlikely a court would side with you on this.
Keeping the window open in a room (even with the door shut) impacts the temperature and humidity of the rest of the house. Rooms within a house are not air tight when the door is closed. In fact, the airflow in a house is designed to circulate and mix all the air from all the rooms so that the AC runs efficiently, even when the doors are closed.
“Outdoor cats” as pets shouldn’t be a thing
Give me a place I can live where they have enough room inside then.
Do you often feel like everyone is against you no matter where you go?
It’s hot out, really hot out, and you are sharing an ac. Two issues here. Humidity destroys houses and it is not good if the AC is pumping full time.
If you’re concerned about your cats, investigate installing a cat door in the window. See link for example. Discuss it with the landlord first so you don’t waste money.
hey how about you go fuck yourself with your snide chud attitude
I was on the fence until I saw this outburst. Now I’m pretty sure you’re a shitty tenant who’s about to get evicted. You and the landlord both are probably imperfect, and I’m not really gonna bother with too many details since I think you posted more for validation than for advice, but I think your landlord has a slam dunk case if he finds your account here with posts and comments. It could be too late, but your best bet is to delete your account, lawyer up, and stfu online about this before it builds their case against you. The judge doesn’t give a shit about you, he cares about the property owner’s property and possibly whether you’re a disruption to other tenants.
I hope you figure it out. Good luck.
You change your mind on a matter of contract law based on how I respond to someone who literally only wrote that first line at the time I responded, then edited the entire rest of their comment in.
You’re not a serious person and the law isn’t as fickle and stupid as you are. This is a serious issue and situation and you’re here purely for a infantile social pile on. Touch grass.
Damn people were just joking the other day about how everything is so illegal in the UK that you could be arrested for having your window open but I guess that was already real life
I can not help you with anything legal. I live in a country with consumer rights and am shocked to see how you are treated.
I can understand both of you. Keeping you window open while the central AC runs will cost a fucking bunch of money and is bad for the environment.
On the other side, fresh air is important, it is your window and so on
Now, maybe you can compromise? Is there maybe a way to close the vents in your apartment so that you no longer receive cold air?
I only know how us apartment look from the inside from good old US Entertainment, but it seems to me that should be straight forward and possible
Hope someone has something for you
Oh another fun fact: my landlord has repeatedly refused my requests for a paper copy of my rental agreement. They just kept sending the same jpg file from their iphone the exact same way that compressed the image to make it unreadable over and over again no matter how many times I pointed it out. They said they would charge me for a printed copy (in person not in writing).
No one cares anymore because your attitude is complete shit. Go complain somewhere else
Sorry Sally. We were all on your side about getting raped but no one likes a sourpuss! Guess you deserved it!
My ideal solution to this is that I cover my ass by just acceding to the demand ON MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY and not before as is the written demand on the notice they gave me. My babies get the holiday weekend. Then they take me to court and I have both the righteous argument about having the right to keep my window open AND the nyeener nyeener you can’t touch me of 3 days worth of security footage on SD cards. So I want to be safe but I also want the judge to give me a decision on that shit being on my lease. BECAUSE IT’S MY FUCKING WINDOW AND I WANT IT OPEN
What is at the heart of needing to keep the door open tho? Is it purey the cats to the point you can make them a catdoor?
Not siding with the landlord, theres a realoty where landlords hold a ton of economic/legal/political power and they can really fuck you if you dont pick your battles.
