pinkfloyd77
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NJ
We live in an OLD building, first floor apartment, with no basement underneath. In January, our wooden floor started buckling (beautiful, old wooden floors in the living room and dining room). We called the landlord and he had a plumber come and look at it, and determine there was some kind of leak under the floor. Over the next couple months, we had the landlord's workers in, to rip out sections of the floor. We were very accommodating, rearranging our schedules, locking out cats in the bedroom so they'd be out of the way etc. The landlord had various plumbers in to look at the leaky pipes (a steam pipe was leaking for the upstairs neighbor's heat) and give estimates. In between, we've had plywood covering the holes. Finally in May, the pipe was replaced. That was a whole 2 days we did not have access to our LR, DR and kitchen. More plywood down, which we've lived with for months now (and it's hard to keep plywood clean and not trip on it).
Finally we're set to get a new floor. Floor guy says that it will take 1-2 days. So we pack up our entire LR and DR, put furniture outside under a tarp, and stored a bunch of stuff in the kitchen. We're living in a bedroom/office/bathroom with our cats and figured we could do that for 1-2 days.
Well, they found more wet under the floor, and mold and now the entire subfloor has to come out. So... they're ripping it all out and it's going to have to dry out over the LONG weekend. Then Tuesday they'll come replace the subfloor and floor. So it will be 7 days without access to our kitchen/LR/DR! We have no choice in the matter. To make things worse, my partner is sick and getting cancer treatment AND it's her bday this weekend. We planned to have people over but cancelled all plans because we have no space to have them in.
We try to be very accommodating tenants. We are landlords ourselves, and we do a lot of our own repairs and upkeep, and help the landlord whenever we can. He lets us have our cats, and we feel lucky to live in a beautiful place. We don't want to be a pain. We feel like we're owed something for our trouble (some money off the rent?) but don't want to suggest it. I can't believe he hasn't thought of it himself! Is it reasonable for us to expect some rent off?
We live in an OLD building, first floor apartment, with no basement underneath. In January, our wooden floor started buckling (beautiful, old wooden floors in the living room and dining room). We called the landlord and he had a plumber come and look at it, and determine there was some kind of leak under the floor. Over the next couple months, we had the landlord's workers in, to rip out sections of the floor. We were very accommodating, rearranging our schedules, locking out cats in the bedroom so they'd be out of the way etc. The landlord had various plumbers in to look at the leaky pipes (a steam pipe was leaking for the upstairs neighbor's heat) and give estimates. In between, we've had plywood covering the holes. Finally in May, the pipe was replaced. That was a whole 2 days we did not have access to our LR, DR and kitchen. More plywood down, which we've lived with for months now (and it's hard to keep plywood clean and not trip on it).
Finally we're set to get a new floor. Floor guy says that it will take 1-2 days. So we pack up our entire LR and DR, put furniture outside under a tarp, and stored a bunch of stuff in the kitchen. We're living in a bedroom/office/bathroom with our cats and figured we could do that for 1-2 days.
Well, they found more wet under the floor, and mold and now the entire subfloor has to come out. So... they're ripping it all out and it's going to have to dry out over the LONG weekend. Then Tuesday they'll come replace the subfloor and floor. So it will be 7 days without access to our kitchen/LR/DR! We have no choice in the matter. To make things worse, my partner is sick and getting cancer treatment AND it's her bday this weekend. We planned to have people over but cancelled all plans because we have no space to have them in.
We try to be very accommodating tenants. We are landlords ourselves, and we do a lot of our own repairs and upkeep, and help the landlord whenever we can. He lets us have our cats, and we feel lucky to live in a beautiful place. We don't want to be a pain. We feel like we're owed something for our trouble (some money off the rent?) but don't want to suggest it. I can't believe he hasn't thought of it himself! Is it reasonable for us to expect some rent off?
