I Hate Water

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Hellllp! It's coming down in buckets from my ceiling!! I've emptied 1 today already. It's loud and I can't sleep. There are chips of sheetrock kind of pasted into my tiles. This has happened before. But not with such... stamina. I've talked to my neighbors. They plead ignorance. I've talked with my landlord who says, whatever the problem is, he can't do anything about it because the water's coming from apartments in the building that he doesn't own and after his lawsuit against the other landlord in the building—who is in turn suing MY landlord back, like in revenge or something; in any case I don't know the specifics of what either case is about—after that he can get to the source of the problem. I think the guys upstairs are growing weed. It doesn't coincide with the weather, happens pretty regularly once every couple of weeks or so and k-goodness who spills that much water out of the bath??

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe they only bathe every other week (IOW, they are certainly growing weed).

― Kris, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The second bucket is getting fuller.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Now it's full. And it's still not very clean.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

SMOKE THE BUCKET!!!

― bc, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

not sure how apartments work in the US, but presumably someone owns the actual building, and since leaking water isn't good for the building you could get in touch with them and they'll sort out the individual landlords and tenants

― michael, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes mjemmeson that would make sense. However my building makes no sense whatever. I think my building's depressed. It wept a third bucket halfway full and then abruptly stopped. Very unbalanced behavior.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a sucessful show down with my ex-landlord today! well I dont want no jinxing it, but I will be getting what is rightfully mine BECAUSE of a simple sentence, it can work for you tooo.

A simple phone call to the fucko in question ' hello my name is ldkfvhdsifuy from sdfkhdsh and associates and I am representing - Tracer Hand-,' it doesnt matter what you say after that, make your demands to the ferret face and wait til he arrives on the door with tradespeople and cake. Other useful terms are 'tribunal' and 'landlord governing body'

The milder scenario just involves saying you are 'willing to hand this over to your barrister' I urge you..know your rights, the evil lords must be brought to justice!!!

― jeskam, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Problem: my landlord is a lawyer. However he may be a divorce lawyer or something for all I know.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

― jeskam, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's malarkey. Tracer, you pay rent to the guy, it's his responsibility to ensure you have a reasonable place to live.

As a lawyer, he will probably respond better if you put your complaint in writing. Send him a note telling him about the problem, mention the times it has occurred, and any bad effects on your life (can't sleep, furniture damage, loss of job due to crankiness, etc., etc.). Tell him you might have to start withholding some rent to pay for the water damage. Tell him that you will have to report the situation to the health department and the rental board if he cannot fix it. If you really think the problem is being caused by pot horticulturalists, put that in there too. He's in big trouble for retailiatory eviction in he tries to kick you out after that.

*For bonus lawyer-freaking out points, send the letter certified mail, return receipt requested.

― felicity, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's malarkey. Tracer, you pay rent to the guy, it's his responsibility to ensure you have a reasonable place to live.

As a lawyer, he will probably respond better if you put your complaint in writing. Send him a note telling him about the problem, mention the times it has occurred, and any bad effects on your life (can't sleep, furniture damage, loss of job due to crankiness, etc., etc.). Tell him you might have to start withholding some rent to pay for the water damage. Tell him that you will have to report the situation to the health department and the rental board if he cannot fix it. If you really think the problem is being caused by pot horticulturalists, put that in there too.* He's in big trouble for retailiatory eviction in he tries to kick you out after that.

(Tracer, your life could be a bar exam question!)

*For bonus lawyer-freaking out points, send the letter certified mail, return receipt requested.

― felicity, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Certified letters and that sort of stuff makes lawyers shake their head sadly, grinning. Waste of money. Write him a lawyer, then call a solicitor if he doesn't respond.

― Colin Meeder, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not sure what a solicitor is, or what the equivalent would be here. Felicity your advice is the advice I knew was coming; it's what I should have been doing all along. I've written the letter and delivered it by hand to his office. Now we see if he does anything.

It happened last night again by the way. I'm starting to think it's not people growing weed because don't you have to water that stuff every day?

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(this whole thread is secretly a troll for weed-growing basics, obv)

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Certified mail is just a way of documenting notice. Hand delivery accomplishes the same thing. Tracer, good luck on the new horticulture career.

― felicity, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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