Richard523
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I am a new tenant in Maryland, just moved in to a house with 4 others.
1) The landlord unscrewed all the outside lights to the house, saying he wants to save electricity and does not want the lights on after midnight (even though his written note says 5am - he said he changed his mind though), and he said some tenants are leaving them on. I work late at night and come back home when it's pitch black. I asked why he does not get a light sensor, and he refuses to spend extra money on that.
2) The shower rod is all rusted and keeps falling down when a tenant uses the shower. He claims the shower rod is fine and refuses to get another one, claiming whoever uses it is pulling DOWN on the curtains too hard and makes the rod fall. (I don’t know if this is true or not). Every time I put it back up to fix it, I get rust all over my hands. Is this not a safety hazard?
3) The landlord admitted he would keep the AC between 70 and 72 degrees just before I signed the lease. After I moved in, he increased temperature to 74 to save electricity, but it gets as high as 78 degrees at night and I have trouble sleeping at that high temp (it is 72 in day however). He claims the AC does not kick in at night because the outside temp is not hot enough. But I did not think inside AC went off of outside temps, but inside temps. I suspect he is raising the thermostat higher at night.
1) The landlord unscrewed all the outside lights to the house, saying he wants to save electricity and does not want the lights on after midnight (even though his written note says 5am - he said he changed his mind though), and he said some tenants are leaving them on. I work late at night and come back home when it's pitch black. I asked why he does not get a light sensor, and he refuses to spend extra money on that.
2) The shower rod is all rusted and keeps falling down when a tenant uses the shower. He claims the shower rod is fine and refuses to get another one, claiming whoever uses it is pulling DOWN on the curtains too hard and makes the rod fall. (I don’t know if this is true or not). Every time I put it back up to fix it, I get rust all over my hands. Is this not a safety hazard?
3) The landlord admitted he would keep the AC between 70 and 72 degrees just before I signed the lease. After I moved in, he increased temperature to 74 to save electricity, but it gets as high as 78 degrees at night and I have trouble sleeping at that high temp (it is 72 in day however). He claims the AC does not kick in at night because the outside temp is not hot enough. But I did not think inside AC went off of outside temps, but inside temps. I suspect he is raising the thermostat higher at night.