Posts Tagged ‘landlord’

We live in a rent controlled apartment in Los Angeles. I understand that by law, the landlord has to pay interest on the deposit. However our landlord put a clause in the lease, saying that "deposit will be returned without interest".
Is that legal?
LA Housing department says it’s a civil matter and I’d have to hire a lawyer. Has anybody ever dealt with this?
Los Angeles RSO requires interest to be paid on deposit.

I woke up with a sore throat this morning after enduring a night of no heat in my apartment. I have checked the weather history and have verified that there was an outside temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit last night. It is 9am, 40.5 degrees, and there is still no heat. I am upset because I am now sick and, as a result, have cancelled an important job interview for this morning. I am worried that my sore throat is only a prelude to a sickness that may severely impose upon my activity for the upcoming week or weeks.

This is what I know: The New York City Housing Maintenance Code requires that between Oct. 1 and May 31, between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., a landlord must provide sufficient heat to maintain apartments at a temperature of 55 degrees Fahrenheit when the outside temperature falls below 40 degrees. Between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., heat must be maintained at 68 degrees when the outside temperature falls below 55 degrees.

Given the above facts, my landlord has violated the code, and continues to do so, in both day and night time frames. As a result, I am sick, cold, and uncomfortable in my own home. What legal recourse do I have? I am not satisfied with the heat just being turned on. The landlord should be imposed with sufficient fines and/or damages for this violation to ensure that this doesn’t happen again. I am not 100% certain, but I believe the entire building is integrated and heated from the same source. So if I am not receiving heat, then others in my building aren’t either. I would also like to seek health and personal damages, rent abatement, and whatever else form of restitution I am entitled to. What is my case and what are my options? In your answer please be as thorough and informative as possible. Please be precise in your legal language as well. Thank you.

Additional information: Heat has been provided before, the last time being two days ago, so I am reasonably assured that the building’s heating system does indeed function. The building supervisor can not be reached at the moment as he is on vacation with his phone turned off and his voice mailbox full. The building owner is the landlord, I assume. The lease is not in my name; I pay my rent to the lease holder of the apartment. The lease holder resides in the building but not in the apartment. I live in Manhattan.

I moved into this cheap, cute apartment about a year ago. I became aware that my neighbors were stealing my mail from the communal, NON-SECURED mail area at the front of the building. Birthday and Christmas cards, Social Security application papers, papers letting me know I had doctor’s appointments (I have a disability, it’s very important that I go to them on time), never got them, and found out about them later. The only time I’ve gotten my mail is when I’ve met the mailman at the door. Because of this situation, my application from Social Security was denied, because I was supposed to send in paperwork that I didn’t know I had to send it, because I never got my mail. I missed dozens of appointments before I realized what was going on and I don’t know if there was money in any cards sent to me during that time period.

So, I sent a letter to my landlord about it; he sent back notes saying he was going to get secured mailboxes. I was very happy about this. This month, he’s attempting to evict me because I was late with my rent last month. I’ve offered to pay him but he says he’d rather me just move out. I’ll know next week if I have to move or not… IF I get my mail.

I saw this last week: he replaced the old mailboxes with a set of new, secure mailboxes, 5 boxes for the 5 apartments in the building. However, on the box for apartment two (my apartment), he wrote "don’t put mail in this bin, use old mailbox on top, thank you." He ripped my old mailbox with no lock on it out of the wall and put it on top of the new secure mailboxes! Now my mail is the ONLY mail that can be stolen.

I told the judge and my landlord said that it’s because I’m being evicted and he doesn’t want to pay 25 dollars for a new key if I have to move out in a month, but my personal feeling is that, as long as I am WILLING to pay the rent (I offered him 600 dollars, but he said he’d rather me move), I should be allowed the same courtesy of privacy that any other tenant in the building has.

What do you think? Is what he did illegal? Do you think what he did was ok? Do you think it’s any form of discrimination? Be honest, I’d love to hear outside opinions on this.

Is it legally ethical to force a fellow into confinement of any kind, especially as one ‘deemed insane’ by civil finding prior to a legal diagnosis, wherein there is no public presence at the hearing and no jury, or meaning-full appeal practice, and then bill his estate to pay for it? Or is it the ethical standard that a judge can with no "worth" of his / her own can simply order the institutions that wish to stay open under his / her watch do his or her bidding and without any of the protections of the jury system jail in a farcical institution with doors more securely locked than many prisons warehouse all of his political opponents or those of differing race, ethnicity, religions and or etc. likely to vote against him until such time as the imprisoned are so dope dependent they will not likely vote against him / her, whilst telling the rest of the country that the so jailed are to pay for their own incarceration? Or is it legally ethical standard for any court to deem the mentally ill "found" can be asked to loose assets in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and thus go into debt, and thus be both stigmatized, humiliated and face federal or extra state extradition to face charges with real and unavoidable jail time for non-payment of debts that would have been covered by forfeit assets, formerly held, but lost due to such confinement, whereas the States have no protocol that protects the assets of renters at all over a barely minimal amount?

I’m specifically speaking of an individual arrested as he was in the process of physically leaving his home, that was being "closed" by the landlord. Thus all of his assets were in the form of hard assets, transportable by a single fellow traveling on a bicycle and thus easily stolen away while he was confined.

I’m reminding the answering public that most banks deal with those in control of a 5.11 trillion dollar illicit drug trade, and a 5.11 trillion dollar illicit sex trade, knowingly or not at upper management levels. But certainly most of those laundering money from this illicit at least believe they have "pull" at some level in said banks; they believe they can control the actions of such banks or would not leave money there. Thus the more honest people do not leave money there, as it only serves to aid dishonest folk hide illicit gains.

These figures are extrapolations of Carter era FBI estimates, the last President we’ve had I’d trust walk my dog, with the sole exception perhaps of President Obama, as I don’t know enough about him one way or another but trust him anyway.

The police simply do not secure ones assets, when they confine one. Period. Even or especially when they know you’ve gathered the resources to pay off debts and are traveling to the States that lent your ex money to pay them off, and would then be able to hire attorneys to fight for some degree of civil rights.

Instead they do the best they can not to shoot one outright. Given the pressures the mobs can place on the finger triggers.

Yes, they sometimes fail at this ~ this person has been shot at least three times by the police, four if you count the informant the police let while listening into the wire forcibly participate in a rape against and then shoot ~ but hey, they do try, I guess, especially given this had been a cop himself, once or three times.

But for now, lets only concern ourselves with the ethics of property loss in "mental illness" "observation situations". Where the fellow has committed no crime, but is assumed perhaps with little to no reason other than more than one person’s say so, that he’s "nuts". Cause, I guess, more people from away are crazy than robbed ~ and nobody robs by date rape drug and call to the police to force confinement whilst the victim’s estate is taken.

I have been having problems with my landlord. He seems to be holding a feeling of resentment against me for making him make some repairs he did not feel were necessary. The last time I went to the office to make a request for a work order we got into an argument and we both got very loud (loud voices only no bad words or violence).

Yesterday I got a letter from a law firm stating that I need to be out of my apartment with in 5 days of the date marked on the letter. The letter was sent regular snail mail with no form of delivery confirmation, and was dated Oct 14th. So it essentially says I need to be out on 2 days notice. I have a one year lease, and as far as I am concerned I have done nothing to violate it.

I contacted the law firm and they said I am being asked to leave because the landlord fears for his well being when around me. Yet 40 minutes after this argument we had he came to fix my dishwasher. So I don’t see why he would have done this if he was so scared, I would also like to point out that the only threat that was made in our argument was by him when he told me I would be out of here if I kept complaining about things in my apartment.

I have no desire to stay in a place I am not wanted and have started to look for a new place. However this takes time as there are wait lists and other factors involved in moving into a new place. So I need more then 5 days for sure. I would also like to note that in this letter I received from the law firm it states I will have to pay the break lease fee. Yet just two moths ago I got a letter from my landlord stating they would release me from my lease at anytime with 30 days notice. So would this get out of lease letter still be valid now? (it has no deadline stated)

Is there anyway I could go about dealing with this with out having to get a lawyer, and going to court. The landlord has the property company to pay his legal bills I have to pay mine out of pocket. I do want to move I just need time.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated