RedBuzzard
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? MO
I live in Missouri, my husband, myself and our 17 year old son have been living in our apartment for almost 9 years. We just signed a new lease in May and the landlord made an error on the lease giving us a reduction in rent because of the error. The lease was signed by the time they noticed their error so it was too late for them to do anything about changing it. Well about a week ago a maintenace guy came in and said the person downstairs complained of a leak coming from our apartment. He check the kitchen sink and then went into the bathroom (which at the time was admittedly dirty, my son slacked on his chore)and found no leak. the next day he came by again and only looked under the kitchen sink, still no leak. The next day 3 maintenance guys came in and finally checked the dishwasher and there was a slow leak (they did not go into the bathroom ). They disconnected or dishwasher and a pipe from under the kitchen sink and said they'd be back that day to fix it, they never showed. Well finally after 3 days of calling someone finally showed up he said he couldn't fix it and would send someone else in a half an hour. No one showed, instead when I was walking out of our apartment that evening I found a letter attached to my door stating that our apartment was uninhabitable (the actual wording said it was inhabitable but, I understood what they meant) and that we had 30 days to leave or we would be evicted. The only time they went into the bathroom was that first day and only one person went in. My son had cleaned the bathroom since then, I talked the landlord and she said that she had complaints that our apartment was "gross", I asked what was gross and the only thing she said was the bathroom. I let her know that it was clean and she said she would come up and do a walkthru. That was yesterday. They also finally came up yesterday and fixed my kitchen sink and my dishwasher (after 4 days without running water in the kitchen). She never came up even though I know she was walking the property yesterday. Today my husband spoke with the manager and she stated that one of her people did a walkthrough 2 weeks ago, however, we were never notified that they were doing this and also either my son or myself are always here and I think one of us would have noticed her. I talked to a lawyer and he said the only thing he could do at this point is write them a nasty letter to maybe get them to back off. I guess what I need is some feedback about what to do about this situation to remedy it without having to go through the eviction. We don't intend on renewing after the lease is up but, we're talking about 8 months and they want us to pay up the lease.
I live in Missouri, my husband, myself and our 17 year old son have been living in our apartment for almost 9 years. We just signed a new lease in May and the landlord made an error on the lease giving us a reduction in rent because of the error. The lease was signed by the time they noticed their error so it was too late for them to do anything about changing it. Well about a week ago a maintenace guy came in and said the person downstairs complained of a leak coming from our apartment. He check the kitchen sink and then went into the bathroom (which at the time was admittedly dirty, my son slacked on his chore)and found no leak. the next day he came by again and only looked under the kitchen sink, still no leak. The next day 3 maintenance guys came in and finally checked the dishwasher and there was a slow leak (they did not go into the bathroom ). They disconnected or dishwasher and a pipe from under the kitchen sink and said they'd be back that day to fix it, they never showed. Well finally after 3 days of calling someone finally showed up he said he couldn't fix it and would send someone else in a half an hour. No one showed, instead when I was walking out of our apartment that evening I found a letter attached to my door stating that our apartment was uninhabitable (the actual wording said it was inhabitable but, I understood what they meant) and that we had 30 days to leave or we would be evicted. The only time they went into the bathroom was that first day and only one person went in. My son had cleaned the bathroom since then, I talked the landlord and she said that she had complaints that our apartment was "gross", I asked what was gross and the only thing she said was the bathroom. I let her know that it was clean and she said she would come up and do a walkthru. That was yesterday. They also finally came up yesterday and fixed my kitchen sink and my dishwasher (after 4 days without running water in the kitchen). She never came up even though I know she was walking the property yesterday. Today my husband spoke with the manager and she stated that one of her people did a walkthrough 2 weeks ago, however, we were never notified that they were doing this and also either my son or myself are always here and I think one of us would have noticed her. I talked to a lawyer and he said the only thing he could do at this point is write them a nasty letter to maybe get them to back off. I guess what I need is some feedback about what to do about this situation to remedy it without having to go through the eviction. We don't intend on renewing after the lease is up but, we're talking about 8 months and they want us to pay up the lease.