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Landlords who just don't get it
This is a tale from one of my friends/coworkers, who is a really cool woman I get along with famously, we'll call her T. She's been having issues with her landlord, and since it's not me, but it does have to do with paying for things and them not being handled, etc, I'm putting it in Sightings. If it's wrong, go ahead and move it.
When I started working here, I worked with a guy I'll call N. N lived in an apartment with his pitbull, who was a doll. I hung out with him a few times, and got to hear about how crazy his landlord was--he approved the dog living there, but if the dog barked even once whil N was at work, the landlord would call N at work and complain. Well, N got a new job and moved down to Texas, my coworker T took over his lease.
T moved in with her dog, Kimberly
shortly thereafter. She has had numerous issues since she moved in, including but not limited to: an air conditioner that malfunctioned and took forever to be replaced, only for the new one to be a piece of crap as well; the apartment being a mess when T moved in, even though the landlord claims he cleaned it thoroughly; neighbors who are loud day in and day out, even after complaints; and neighbors who have small children whom they lock out of their apartment, allowing the kids to run screaming up and down the hallways and across all the yards, to push all the buzzers and to attempt to break into T's apartment by "picking" the lock with a kitchen knife. (And yes, she has made complaints to the landlord about all of this).
Since T moved in, Kimberly's health has been going downhill. It's now to the point that she contstantly has accidents and can barely stand on her own, so T set up an appointment to have her put down. In the meantime, T has kept Kimberly mostly confined to the kitchen (tile floor) with towels that she changes multiple times a day and washes, and feeds her fast food hamburgers to make her a happy doggy for her final days. Apparently, the landlord doesn't believe T's neighbors should "have to deal with living like this" (i.e. next door to a dog owner?) and has been bothering T constantly.
It escalated to the point where I felt the desire to become involved when T was at work with me the other day. Again, we work in a call center, and we generally turn our cell phones off/on vibrate, and don't answer them unless it's an emergency. T has told her landlord this, and asked that he not call unless it's an emergency, and then only to call once--she'll call back when she's free. Well, T pulls out her phone to find some 10-15 missed calls and 6 voice mails from her landlord, in which he sounds like there is an emergency. As it turns out, the "emergency" is that he went in to her apartment to shut her sliding door because it started raining, and saw that Kimberly had an accident on the floor.
Now, T has spoken with him about this on several occasions, and he is well aware that Kimberly is being put to sleep this week. He knows that there is nothing T can do, besides cleaning up after the accidents. He knows that T's neighbors are obnoxious and constantly disturb her. And he's been asked/warned not to call her over and over again while she's at work. Yet he ignores all this, and does just that. Which makes me angry. T is already upset that her dog is dying, and now she's being harrassed by a man who has not been a good landlord.
So tell me, how childish would it be if we (me and a few of my fellow cc gals) started calling T's landlord at all hours of the night and day and hanging up/leaving nonsense voicemails? Because at this point, we're sorely tempted.
When I started working here, I worked with a guy I'll call N. N lived in an apartment with his pitbull, who was a doll. I hung out with him a few times, and got to hear about how crazy his landlord was--he approved the dog living there, but if the dog barked even once whil N was at work, the landlord would call N at work and complain. Well, N got a new job and moved down to Texas, my coworker T took over his lease.
T moved in with her dog, Kimberly
shortly thereafter. She has had numerous issues since she moved in, including but not limited to: an air conditioner that malfunctioned and took forever to be replaced, only for the new one to be a piece of crap as well; the apartment being a mess when T moved in, even though the landlord claims he cleaned it thoroughly; neighbors who are loud day in and day out, even after complaints; and neighbors who have small children whom they lock out of their apartment, allowing the kids to run screaming up and down the hallways and across all the yards, to push all the buzzers and to attempt to break into T's apartment by "picking" the lock with a kitchen knife. (And yes, she has made complaints to the landlord about all of this).Since T moved in, Kimberly's health has been going downhill. It's now to the point that she contstantly has accidents and can barely stand on her own, so T set up an appointment to have her put down. In the meantime, T has kept Kimberly mostly confined to the kitchen (tile floor) with towels that she changes multiple times a day and washes, and feeds her fast food hamburgers to make her a happy doggy for her final days. Apparently, the landlord doesn't believe T's neighbors should "have to deal with living like this" (i.e. next door to a dog owner?) and has been bothering T constantly.
It escalated to the point where I felt the desire to become involved when T was at work with me the other day. Again, we work in a call center, and we generally turn our cell phones off/on vibrate, and don't answer them unless it's an emergency. T has told her landlord this, and asked that he not call unless it's an emergency, and then only to call once--she'll call back when she's free. Well, T pulls out her phone to find some 10-15 missed calls and 6 voice mails from her landlord, in which he sounds like there is an emergency. As it turns out, the "emergency" is that he went in to her apartment to shut her sliding door because it started raining, and saw that Kimberly had an accident on the floor.
Now, T has spoken with him about this on several occasions, and he is well aware that Kimberly is being put to sleep this week. He knows that there is nothing T can do, besides cleaning up after the accidents. He knows that T's neighbors are obnoxious and constantly disturb her. And he's been asked/warned not to call her over and over again while she's at work. Yet he ignores all this, and does just that. Which makes me angry. T is already upset that her dog is dying, and now she's being harrassed by a man who has not been a good landlord.
So tell me, how childish would it be if we (me and a few of my fellow cc gals) started calling T's landlord at all hours of the night and day and hanging up/leaving nonsense voicemails? Because at this point, we're sorely tempted.
Geesh...sounds like hell.
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