Saftey codes?

[fallenangel9218]

What is the name of your state?Ok

If you were living in a rental property that was not up to the state saftey codes and already left that property can you still turn the house in for not being up to code? The landlord is sueing my mother, is it to late now that she is off the property to turn her in for not being up to code ? and if she still can , can we use that in court?

 

[FarmerJ]

She had more rights to claim the unit was unsafe while she was still in possession of it . She has no claim in along those lines unless the unit was formally condemned by a governmental entity like a city or county inspections dept . then she can get a copy of the condemn order and show it to the court .

 

[fallenangel9218]

thank you ! from what I have read my mother has no rights . The only thing she has is copies of all the letters she sent the landlord asking for repairs. That were never done . She has copies of every letter on disk she ever sent in the 6 years she lived on the property.....She was afraid to have the house inspected in fear of being evicted because she did not have money to move. when the police came out because the house was broken into the police officer told my mother then the house was not up to code, can we use that in court if we can get the officer to sign something if she remembers telling my mother that ? Also is my mother responsable for the damages that were done to the house when it was broken into? The landlord is sueing my mother for those damages as well along with the full months rent . My mother did file a police report and will present that in court. But will it even do any good?

 

[HomeGuru]

thank you ! from what I have read my mother has no rights . The only thing she has is copies of all the letters she sent the landlord asking for repairs. That were never done . She has copies of every letter on disk she ever sent in the 6 years she lived on the property.....She was afraid to have the house inspected in fear of being evicted because she did not have money to move. when the police came out because the house was broken into the police officer told my mother then the house was not up to code, can we use that in court if we can get the officer to sign something if she remembers telling my mother that ? Also is my mother responsable for the damages that were done to the house when it was broken into? The landlord is sueing my mother for those damages as well along with the full months rent . My mother did file a police report and will present that in court. But will it even do any good?

**A: did your Mom ever read and follow the OK L/T law?

 

[fallenangel9218]

**A: did your Mom ever read and follow the OK L/T law?

No !! My mother is a elderly lady that was taken advantage of . The landlord stopped repairing things shortly after my mother moved into the house 6 years ago. My mother lived for years with a huge hole in one of the back bedroom windows it was there when she moved in . the landlady said she was gonna replace the windows that were all sealed shut , but never did . She claimed she hired a man to replace them, and he told her he was ordering windows and then he ran away with her money. My mom also had no electric outlets that worked in the front of the house . the pipes busted at least twice every winter and her house was flooded many times . the final starw is when the landlady refused to fix the kitchen sink it would not completley turn off and there was also a leak under the house she would not fix . My mothers water bill went from $35. a month to $120.
From what I have read and found out my mother has no rights because even though she informed the landlord of all the problems she did not send the letters certified. How do you know about all these laws if you have never been through this . she also left a voice message on the landlords voicemail several times telling her she was moving 40 days prior to moving . when she never could get her to return her calls she mailed hera letter telling her she vacated with the keys. My mother is past retirement age and cannot even retire . The landlord is sueing her and threatening to get her fired.

 

[fallenangel9218]

would also like to add. The landlady did fix miner problems until recently . but never the main problem so the problems would keep recurring. She was told the house needed to completely rewired but she never did it . it also had the really old fuse boxes and every time a fuse would pop sparks and flames would shoot out . The main reason my mother moved was because she was having paying high utilities due to cracks in the windows ( and one window a softball size hole) and water leaks every month, and she was afraid to even turn the furnace on at night in fear the house would burn down while she was asleep. There was no fire alarms that she had requested for years. I guess this will just be one of those life lessons but it is ashame my mother at 67 years of age has to learn it now. She really is the victim in all of this .It is her fault not knowing the rental laws. She wrote the landlady letters , she thought that is all she had to do. She has copies of all the letters but in the OK TL laws it says they had to be sent certified. I might add for six years my mother paid her rent on time and was a very good renter. When the landlady got the letter about my mother vacating she told my mother right then that if she would of known she would of not paid the morgage that month. Makes me think the landlady was gonna let the house go herself because of all of the problems with it . She Just wants her money back she paid on the morgage.