Ugh, so my landlord called yesterday to say he was coming over this morning to look at my bathtub drain. I hate it when the landlord comes over. He always brings his little cronie handymen and if I'm not here to watch them I come home to crap thrown all over the apartment like they had some kind of dinge party while I was away or something, and my landlord always has to poke around and peek in closets and shit - "oh, you need to oil your hinges" or "you have to take better care of your faucet fixture" - what the hell do i do to my faucet fixtures?!? should i tuck them in a little faucet bed and feed them milk and cookies and tell them happy little faucet fairy tales??? who "cares" for their faucet fixtures, anyway??? ugh, it's just creepy when the landlord comes around, and it's been like this with every landlord i've ever had. i'm a clean freak - what problem should landlords have with me? i think i just hate landlords. if it's true that everyone has a prejudice or is bigoted in some form or fashion, then i am landlord-ist. i can't stand them. i can't help it.

my day is shot.

Now I know why we don't get along, I'm a landlord



j/k

I'm a clean freak and it seems that every tenant I've ever had used to live in a barn (filthy animals)

Slave2daGroove said:

QUIT PIDDLIN IN PEOPLE'S STUFF!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHA


Thanka for the big laugh with my morning coffee. That woke me up!

Anxiety said:

You're still so funny when you're angry too (in the complimentary wat of course!)....

that's multi-talented bruv

Rezpec'

of course the rat bastard never showed up.

Meanwhile I get home from work and the first thing I generally do is change. I'm right in the middle and I hear a knock on the door. "Just a minute," I call. I'm getting dressed quickly now. Knock again. "Maintenance!" "One minute, I'll be there." I'm pullng on my shirt and I hear a key in the lock!!!! I SCREAMED at the guy. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING????" As he peeks his head in. "Uh, maintenance. Sorry. Do you have any water leaks?" "NO. I wasn't dressed. Go away now." "uh... sorry."

I think that's a mutant power that all landlords and apartment maintenance people have - they know when to drop by just as you're stepping into or out of the shower, or right when you're in the middle of pinching a loaf.

CarrieMpls said:

The ignorant bastards!

Take that Mr Maintenance guy!!!

There there Carrie darlin' , I've sorted that caveman out

senik said:

Thanks.

CarrieMpls said:

he did that on purpose. he heard you the first time.

just once i would like to take a full, uninterrupted dump without some schmoe barging in asking me how my kitchen sink pipes got all rusty. I DON'T KNOW!!! I HAVE NO IDEA!!! What, do I sit under the sink at night, spraying my pipes and giggling? JUST FIX IT!!! AND LET ME POOP!!!

I DON'T ASK FOR MUCH!!!!

Anxiety said:

you need to buy a house.

JasmineFire said:

actually, i go months without seeing or hearing from my landlord. it's just one of those "when it rains it pours" kinds of things. i'll just ask him to replace a kitchen appliance and that'll send him running for the hills for another few months, and then maybe i can have a peaceful b.m. for a change.

unless the toilet busts down too.

Anxiety said:

HEAR, HEAR!!!

Once I had to have the landlord come and fix a hole in the tiled wall in the shower. Just some advice: don't use a tiled shower wall as leverage when you're in the shower with a member of the opposite sex.

i had a landlord that intruded unreasonably and regularly in our lives. also, kind of unlawfully too, by posting warnings of their intent as flyers in elevators which were defaced (due to speling and grammer errors) and torn down so that proper notice was not given.

i had a LOT of trouble with that rental, and argued fiercely because at the time i was working in the field of real estate - commercial property management so i knew exactly what they were doing wrong. i even had my attorney/boss review some of the documents they required me to sign for example

"i hereby assume responsibility for delivery person to enter my apartment and for management to borrow them a key"

what they wanted was for me to permit them to accept packages on my behalf but the document was worded so that i was 1) allowing anonymous third parties into my place without my knowledge, 2) absolving management's responsibility for handing out keys to my place to these anonymous third parties. obviously the document wasn't legal and my atty advised against signing it (laughed out loud in fact) but management 'required' it.

they also required my social security number on some archaic form misnaming minnesota's Xcel Energy as NSP (some five years out of date) and despite the fact that i'd already arranged for electric service to my apartment.

then there was the mandatory 'window washing' experience requiring me to 'move furniture away from windows', where larry, curly and moe entered the partment, dislocated the windows and removed them and replaced them wrong and used ammonia (no ma'am, no toxic chemicals to harm your birds) then lost the master key to all our apartments and came looking for it later in the day.

when it came time for me to move out they required me to fill out another fucked up form informing them of my future address in advance - that is the intent to vacate period was 60 days and i hadn't found a new place yet - and i had to involve the landlord/tenant union in that dispute as they informed me that until i'd filled out said form i hadn't given notice. i was not at all surprised to learn that 'management' was well known at the union for multiple offenses.

stay away from the park terrace apartments, mpls people, or be prepared to live with a lot of crap like this. truth, not slander.

we fought like cats and dogs for a year because i was under a lease agreement. but, i did make them suffer equally and increased their awareness of the law.
[This message was edited Tue May 11 17:43:51 2004 by XxAxX]

NCC2012 said:

and that goes double if you're in the shower with a member of the same sex.

Mine just had a surgery to replace both her knees.. She is a nice Greek lady with a lovely accent...but she will talk your ear off and it always happens when I am running out the door late to do somewhere.

Mine's a lazy, dope-addled hippy with 3 kids!


It's ace, he never comes round (unless we make him come round to fix something!) and the only time I see him is on nights out (his lady is a mate of mine) when he usualy buys everyone loads of drinks. The flat is gorgeous, the neighbour hood nice, the rent fuck all and it's over the road from where I work.

I always invite him along to my house parties too, so if when we leave he starts grumbling about a cig burn or booze stain in the carpet, I'll say it was him who did it while perving over some girl half his age and should I bring it up with his other half?

why is it that i always get the cranky busybody landlords and everyone else gets the hippies and sweet old greek ladies? it isn't fair.

The landlord has never come to my apartment directly, she sends the maintenance guy, and he's hot as hell. He can come over any time he wants

Tom said:

our maintenance guy has three, maybe four, teeth.

Hey Anx, what was wrong with your drain? I'm living in a dorm right now (BARF BARF BARF) and the maintenance fuckers never show up for anything. I complained back in September that my window didn't shut - not a good idea for London - and my sink didn't drain. At all. Fuckers never came, even after multiple complaints. Finally I bought a big bottle of Mr. Muscle (ehehe) and burned all the shit away in my drain. The window is still a problem, though. Thank god it's spring at least.

I cannot wait until I move back into a house next month...

Natsume said:

oh, i had a really bad leaky faucet that eventually led to a really leaky pipe under the sink, which then started seeping into the downstairs neighbor's apartment. they came in last week and twisted some stuff around and now it appears to be fixed...only now, i only have half the water pressure that i did before - my landlord's comment on that was "baah, you don't need water pressure for making tea!"

Anxiety said:

What a visual.

(And, I am not kidding when I tell you that there are ad's for faucets at the top of this thread. I still stand by the ads going along with the text of the threads...)

Anxiety said:

YOU HAVE FAUCET FAIRY?

LEAVE WATER UNDER PILLOW

FOR QUARTER IN MORNING!

POOK said:

you livin' in one room jungle

monkey cage?

I always like a visit to the landlords. Mine's a pint!

JDINTERACTIVE said:

hmmm...i never thought about dropping by the LANDLORD'S home...good one...hmmm..