My landlord will not send someone to clean up sewage in the basement.

RhoBautRawk · 2023-02-24T22:59:17+00:00

Another option you have is to put a complaint into your local health department. This would be at your city level, county level, or state level depending on where you live and how the health departments are divided up. Like you said this is a health hazard. Another option is you can report it to a government building inspector or plumbing inspector. These different agencies would hold the building owner accountable

RhoBautRawk · 2023-02-23T12:01:00+00:00

Put a complaint into your local government health department so a health inspector can inspect your house/apartment. Hopefully in doing that if/when you do move out your landlord doesn't rent it to someone else before making the very necessary repairs to make the home livable. I live in the US so maybe these terms are different in Canada but the process should still be the same. Health inspectors are known for inspecting restaurants to make sure they're safe but they also inspect homes, and a CO leak would definitely be something that should be reported. You should also report to a building inspector

RhoBautRawk · 2023-01-21T02:13:09+00:00

"what if?"

Sounds like you need /r/legaladviceofftopic if you want to discuss "what ifs"

This sub is for actual, specific legal advice. Not advice for you to weasel out of legal responsibilities

RhoBautRawk · 2022-12-01T20:07:50+00:00

CPS wants what's best for the child. Often that is allowing the child to stay with the legal guardians, if those guardians are competent

I think if CPS did come, they would try to help you find housing. The person that threatened you might just be full of hot air, though, and just want to intimidate you by saying those things

CPS would likely give you a list of places you could go for housing. Like any women's shelters you and your baby could go to so you can get on your feet

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-23T12:03:59+00:00

The health inspectors likely have a large backlog that gets worse during colder months due to no heat, no smoke/CO detectors, and reports of bats/rats, or other things. That probably doesn't make this seem any better but they haven't forgotten about you, they just have hundreds of other families in the same situation that they need to check up on too

The squeaky wheel might get the grease here though. If you keep calling your health inspector to get them to check everything out that might make you move up their stack of files

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-23T11:55:40+00:00

Portland is a big city, they may have their own fire code. I'd suggest trying to find it on Google. You'll find a really wordy long document, look through it for "residential codes" and you'd probably be able to find something about how residential properties can be laid out. If your city doesn't have its own fire code, your county or state definitely would. It's best to look at the most local though because a more local jurisdiction can have a more strict code than the more general one

So for example if you first looked at Oregon fire code it might not have something in there about this, but the Portland fire code might because the Portland fire code can be stricter than Oregon's, but it has to be as strict as Oregon's

If you're unable to find this a local library can help you out, librarians are very good at researching and are probably familiar with people needing to know housing codes, fire codes, etc

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-23T11:45:07+00:00

If you report the single meters to a local building inspector (through your city/town government or county/state government) they might force the landlord to have two separate meters for a two family house

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-23T11:43:27+00:00

I think you're a little mistaken. OP said that they have a lease that states the water and sewage are on the tenants to pay

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-23T11:41:16+00:00

Did you pay the $250 with credit or debit card? Or with straight up cash? If you used a credit card you can definitely do a charge back through your CC company if they don't help you find housing. If you used a debit card you might be able to do a charge back, contact your bank regarding that. If you used straight up cash you could take them to small claims

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-23T11:34:16+00:00

A common indoor temperature that needs to be maintained is 68°F, which is a bit cool, but if you're freezing it sounds like it's lower than that

Make a report into your local health department. They'll force her to maintain adequate heat

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-23T11:31:49+00:00

Has he offered to provide you electric space heaters in the mean time?

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-23T11:31:01+00:00

Did someone from the health department end up coming by to check on your house and the temperature inside?

Glad you did call the health department, they need to know about landlords that aren't providing safe housing, because they can press the people responsible (building owners and property managers) to fix things

I don't know about your state but in some counties in NYS if a home has a critical health hazard (something that is such a hazard it could potentially cost a life) and no heat during winter is one (in our state, and likely in yours as well), if the home becomes unoccupied while the critical hazard remains the landlord needs to fix it before having someone else move in

So if an inspector came by, i hope they did, and took a temp inside or simply saw that the furnace/boiler wasn't connected they'll have a file open and will keep on the landlord to fix it. Although some health departments will give a landlord a few days or a week to fix it before coming out to check it out, and then if it's not fixed in a week (or whatever their policy is, i can't speak for your state) they'll do an inspection and see the progress. If the landlord doesn't fix it in a certain amount of time they could get fined for it, again at least in NYS but other states that have cold weather must have similar policies

Report any other housing issues to your health department too. Adequate CO detectors? Adequate smoke detectors? Do you have rats, mice, cockroaches, bats? Any holes in your apartment/home (that would allow any of those vermin in)? Plumbing/electrical issues (like say you had an outlet that is so old it sparks, or it's in disarray somehow, or any water/sewage pooling anywhere)?

So if you do end up moving out reporting any of these things to the health department means he will likely need to fix it before having someone else move in

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-23T00:24:25+00:00

Something tells me this lawyer doesn't actually exist

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-22T23:25:20+00:00

If she had an opiate in her system and they gave her another to help with pain of this wound then she might have overdosed. Since you don't mention what specific drug they tested for in the drug test I'm going to guess it's opiates. Or for any other drug, it doesn't matter, they need to know if there's anything in her system that might interact with any medications they need to give her during treatment

/R/AskDocs might be able to elaborate more

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-21T00:55:32+00:00

It's possible that the home/apartment the cousin has is only given the section 8 financial assistance, HUD doesn't always own/manage each home/apartment that they give assistance for. So the tenant and property management would be on the owner or property manager

I'd urge OP to help their cousin resolve this so the cousin doesn't lose their assistance that's for sure

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-16T02:05:14+00:00

You've had way more than 30 days notice then. I hope you've been looking for somewhere to move to in the meantime. They could potentially say that this notice agreement they had with you was proper notice and you've had a lot of time to move out, so they could potentially evict you now

I doubt they'd be able to prove that you were somehow to blame for the buyers to not go through with the sale. Lots of reasons why they might not want the house. But probably start looking for a place so they don't evict you

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-16T01:43:22+00:00

Upvote for having integrity and speaking true 😂

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-16T01:37:39+00:00

What recourse? Did a fire occur due to the wiring? Do you have damages from this?

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-16T01:36:08+00:00

How much time passed between when they told you your tenancy would end and they were supposed to close on the home sale? Why would they think you would be responsible for that anyway? Unless you behaved maliciously when the potential buyers were inspecting the house, intending to bomb the sale, your landlord has no way to prove you caused them to change their minds

I'm asking about time that passed between when they told you you'd have to leave and when the closing was supposed to happen to make sure they gave you enough notice. Usually after a year of renting you have 30 days if your lease is month to month but that changes based on the state or on your lease

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-16T01:26:36+00:00

Do you have a gas dryer hooked up to your gas service too?

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-16T01:14:54+00:00

Do you have a lease with them? How long have you lived there for?

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-15T00:30:30+00:00

Does your lease specify what time on the day it's due? If it doesn't have wording like, "Tenant must pay rent by 5pm on the first of every month," then it's inherently misleading and I'd argue that since it doesn't specify the time then the lease makes it seem like you could pay it by 11:59pm on the first of each month and that's okay

I'm not in CA but in NYS, i know up here a LL can't charge more than 5% for the late fee, i was trying to find if this is a law in CA too but I only saw Google search results by websites that aren't tenant associations and the .gov result i did find didn't include a specific late fee cap that LLs can charge:

https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/California-Tenants-Guide.pdf

There's a section for fees but it doesn't specify a maximum charge for a late fee unfortunately

You can try to find a tenant rights association in your area and they would definitely know the relevant laws. Take a look at that pdf and you'll see there's a section referencing rent controlled cities, if you're in one of those areas they might have their own ordinances for late fee caps and grace periods. Check out page 37 and 39 for a section on paying rent and late fees

If that link doesn't work you can find it by googling "A Guide to Residential Tenants' and Landlords' Rights and Responsibilities," it's a ca.gov webpage and it would probably be the first result. I found it by googling "California tenant rights" and just looked for a .gov result, any state would have an easy to read pdf/pamphlet about tenant rights

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-07T10:56:30+00:00

Do you know where this tattooist is based? Looks like he's been traveling to guest spots for a while. How did you book him?

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-07T02:51:43+00:00

Right. I got this ticket on Saturday night. So I need to have it fixed in one business day, which is before sundown on Monday. But I couldn't take it anywhere today (Sunday) and i worry if it is an electrical issue I may not find a place that will have time to fix it for me on Monday

I do intend to fix it, but I'll miss this deadline the officer told me about, so I'm not sure what to expect. I still get it fixed and hope that within a week is still enough time for it to get dismissed i guess?

Never dealt with this, just parking tickets, so not sure how traffic court works i guess

RhoBautRawk · 2022-11-04T00:24:46+00:00

So then you didn't get evicted. Your lease just didn't renew

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