We have been in Vicenza for about 3 months. We were staying in a hotel for a few weeks and then they offered us two apts both of which were way too tiny to accomadate our needs. We voiced this problem and were told that if we did not want to move into one of the apts offered then we would have to pay for the hotel the army had put us in until something opened up in housing which could take 30 days or more. Our hotel was 120 Euro a night and we could not afford this. There were cheaper hotels farther away but they did not allow pets and our car had not arrived and my husbands sponser outranked him and refused to pick him up for his inprocessing (but that is a whole other story). We felt we had no choice but to take one of the apts. The place we are living in is extremly substanard. We have complained many times to housing and they have agreed to do an "exception to policy" and move us but what they are offering is smaller than what we have. What can we do?
2007-03-12 01:29:48 · 6 answers · asked by I know EVERYTHING! 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
We just want the plain housing in vellagio. Is that too much to ask?
2007-03-12 01:31:04 · update #1
I am tired of this suck-it-up-and-drive-on crap. I was in the army 5 and a half years before I met my husband and got out to have a child. I know there is better housing because I have been there.
2007-03-12 09:18:14 · update #2
We have holes in the floors, a hole the size of my head in the bathroom going to the outside (they told us to stuff it with something). I can't run the washer and the dryer at the same time or I'll blow a fuse, and that goes for the slowcooker, tv, vaccum, hair dryer... The building is infested with mice, I have three glass doors that have BS locks on them and no working shutters to secure them. I have neighbors who get drunk 4 times a weeks and scream up and down the stair well pissing off their balconoy and running around naked (yes, we have put in complains and nothing happens) Soldiers with NO children who have gotten here after us are moved it to housing while we are stuck here being lied to and getting the run around. So excuse me if I don't want to get the same BS attitude here either. I have contacted my congress man. If you want to be someone doormat, then by all means...
2007-03-13 19:41:39 · update #3
I agree with the first poster.
But let me add a note:
You are not guaranteed family housing at each duty assignment.
There are times, depending on where your husband is stationed, that you will just not find suitable housing.
Thats why alot of times, the service member goes over first, finds housing, then the family ships over.
When i was in Jr. High School, my dad had orders to Germany as a Battalion CSM, and he still couldn't find suitable quarters. So he ended up doing the tour by himself and we lived in the same house we lived in off post at his last duty station.
former SSGT USAF, and Army Brat.
2007-03-12 02:47:47 · answer #1 · answered by jeeper_peeper321 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Vicenza Italy Army Base Housing
2016-11-14 21:43:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Welcome to army housing in Europe. The problem with Italian housing is it is small and more expensive than the government is willing to pay for. There really is nothing you can do. You can try house hunting yourself and find something off base, but chances are you may not get it. All you can do is keep pushing and know exactly what you want, not just something bigger.
As for your husbands sponsor, that is a complaint that can be taken to your husband's squad leader. What is the sponsor's rank compared to your husbands?
Sponsorship is taken very seriously here and if there is a problem, you can get it corrected.
2007-03-12 02:23:23 · answer #3 · answered by kittenbrower 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It may be, when you have understand that OCONUS housing is VERY strict on BR entitlement and they stick to the rules regarding who has to share a bedroom. Is your spouses' pay grade and BR entitlement available in the housing area you want? I wanted to live in a free satanding house in Japan. But guess what.. we weren't entitled to it becuase he wasn't an O4. We got an apartment and we had to deal with it.
children under 6 share a bedroom..period. Same sex will share until 12. they simply cannot compare to the availbility and configuration of housing Stateside.
Maybe it's a case of you having too much stuff. Why do you think the OCONUS HHG allownace is 75% of the Stateside one? because overseas, everybody makes do with less room.
We are NOT enbtitled to housing. they have what they have, and if you make the choice not to accept it, then you get to deal with the consequences. What makes you more deserving of a larger unit than the next guy, who has been onthe list longer?
2007-03-12 07:06:11 · answer #4 · answered by Mrsjvb 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's the way housing goes. Get used to it. It's not going to change no matter how high in rank your husband goes.
Trust me on that one.
Small size does not equal substandard. It's a bummer, but not an "issue".
EDIT: If you're not willing to wait your turn on the waiting list, what kind of answer do you want other than, "Suck it up and drive on,"? Since five out of five of your answers suggest that, perhaps you should consider it.
2007-03-12 04:49:12 · answer #5 · answered by fredonia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
be glad you could go with him and stop complaining your complaints go back to his command. this is why the navy does unaccompanyed tours to italy, i am a navy wife. housing is always substandard when you have very high expectations. all the military cares about is a roof and four walls your comfort isnt a high priority, be glad you have a home. it could be alot worse he could be in iraq living in a tent without you
2007-03-12 03:14:41 · answer #6 · answered by kleighs mommy 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋