Say the landlord has know for at least 2 years that your neihbors are extremly filthy and have now infested your apartment with bugs like roaches, fleas, and specifically bed bugs. Shouldn't they ethically and out of good consience compensate you for the pain and inconvience of their tenants? Possibly by reducing the rent for a few months until the problems have been fixed and/or the people are evicted.
2007-03-22 08:18:42 · 7 answers · asked by ? 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
The landlord has hired exterminators but we still have to deal with the situation until the bugs are completely gone which could take several months. I have bites on my neck and chest from bed bugs plus we spent 200 or so on laundry washing all that we have. I threw out my couch because it was infested. Every piece of clothing we have is in plastic bags plus I have had many sleepless night and stress from this whole situation.
2007-03-22 08:31:30 · update #1
I live in a 3 apartment complex in Brooklyn. The land lady (owner) lives on the first floor. She does not have bed bugs. Yes the filthy people are in our building and tenants of the land lady. They admitted to having bed bugs yet never told the land lady. She said she is working on trying to get them out but again the right thing to do would be to lower our rent for a few months. We should not have to deal with her nasty tenants.
2007-03-22 08:40:35 · update #2
If we move out we take a risk of bringing the bed bugs with us so we are stuck.
2007-03-22 08:42:50 · update #3
If the other tenants are his, then perhaps. If he doesn't have any control over them, then no. Both you and the landlord have bills to pay. Why must the impact of a bad 3rd party that is living nearby be absorbed by the landlord?
I feel for your situation, but I have also been on the landlord side of matters. Keep in mind that not all landlords are rich slumlords. Some are just renting one or two units and are just making ends meet.
2007-03-22 08:30:14 · answer #1 · answered by mark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, the LL/Tenant laws do not include compensation for what other tenants might or might not be doing. You are supposed to have the quiet enjoyment of your tenancy. If the living conditions are not acceptable, then you have the right to leave on the grounds of constructive eviction. The LL has the responsibility to evict tenants that don't keep their residence clean and habitable. Based upon what you wrote, she has already begun the eviction process, and has already called for the exterminators to clear the building. If that is insufficient, then your only remedy is to leave. That being impossible, as you say, then you better find a way to work with your LL until the problem is corrected.
2007-03-22 09:23:20 · answer #2 · answered by rac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you live in an apartment complex, call the health department and make an anonymous call. Tell them about the renters living in filth and causing a health hazard. They will MAKE THE LANDLORD clean the property up and get rid of the roaches and other critters.
But, to answer your question, No there is no way to make the landlord compensate you for "knowing" your neighbors are slugs and live in filth. Your only option is what I told you before.
(Or call a news station and have them come out and show the complex on the evening news. Which will get you kicked out as soon as the news cameras leave.)
Good Luck
2007-03-22 08:32:38 · answer #3 · answered by Prince Thom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is not your landlord's responsibility. It is a private matter between you and your neighbors. At most you can expect your apt. to be treated for bugs. If he has treated already then he has shown good faith that he has tried to stop the problem. He cannot force someone to take a bath just because they rent from him any more than he can tell you what to have for dinner. I suggest you buy your way out of the lease and move.
2007-03-22 08:27:20 · answer #4 · answered by k w 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i might say that in the event that they have huge-unfold on the subject of the subjects, and have did no longer gain this by ability of serving them with nuisance violations and commencing up eviction complaints, you will have a exceptionally good lawsuit- at the same time with punitive damages. good success getting them to do the splendid concern voluntarily. i might deliver the owner a notarized and registered letter annoying instantaneous action and a hire help until eventually the source of the subject is corrected and an exterminator has declared the development "sparkling". Barring this, recommend them which you're contacting the well-being branch and could start up withholding hire; the potential of a condemnation, expert cleansing and shifting expenses for tenants, and criminal expenditures would desire to get them shifting.
2016-10-01 08:16:11 · answer #5 · answered by celia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely. And, there is such a thing as Tenant's Rights. Don't know where you live but if it's in the US, look it up and enforce your rights. You can always call the local codes enforcement and city inspector out, also. They are sure to put the fear of God in your lazy landlord. They'll hit him where it counts...his pocket. And, you are protected from retribution by the law.
2007-03-22 08:27:27 · answer #6 · answered by vabeachgirl324 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no it is not the landlords fault. you should go to the housing department or whoever regulates housing and rentals where you live and report the landlords inaction there. this will motivate your landlord to do something. if i were you i would just move.
2007-03-22 08:28:54 · answer #7 · answered by milton b 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋