I live in a two-family home and, basically, my landlords are trash. The last tenant said she had "some trouble sleeping" because she's a "light sleeper," but what she meant to say was that these people are alcoholics that hang outside the tenant's bedroom window playing the radio and screaming loudly late into the night. (I was pushed to write this post because it's 12:30am and they've been loading a refrigerator into a truck outside my window for the past hour.)
The two times my husband and I politely asked them to wrap up loud partying by a reasonable hour were not received well at all. According to them, it's their house and they can do "whatever [they] want." "We had parties until 5am sometimes and the last tenant NEVER complained." (Translation: she was a doormat who got the hell out when her lease ended.
The problem is: our polite complaints were met with harassment.The landlord wife waited outside our door with a growling dog, sprayed water through our windows, yelled at me when I would leave for or come home from work, went to the basement to bang on our floor with objects, etc. Meanwhile, we didn't engage and called the police. I filed a report about the harassment and an officer came to tell them if they did it one more time, then we could file an official complaint.
The harassment really only started on Aug. 1 after we nicely asked them to turn down the music at midnight. It's been a nightmare since. We made it 5 months out of a 12-month lease. Finally, we tried to reason with them. We said that they obviously can't live the lifestyle they want (drinking loudly 4 hours a day as their son sits inside alone) and we can't live the one we want (typical quiet suburban life), so we'd like to move. They agreed.
I found a new tenant on Craigslist and she already signed a lease to start on Oct. 15th. We signed a lease for another apartment for Oct. 1. A dilemma about moving day is where we're torn. Do we email them to tell them we'll be moving on the 26th and the truck will need access to the driveway in the morning? They've harassed us in the past about pulling in the driveway for 3 min. to drop off groceries. OR do we spring it on them and have the truck just show up? Part of me worries they'll park one of their cars halfway down the driveway, blocking access, and go away for the weekend. It's like a heads up to be a total asshole. Then part of me hopes they hate us so much that they would realize moving day IS the solution to this whole problem (they don't usually consider consequences though.)
So should we warn them and take our chances that they don't screw us over?
tl;dr: Landlords are a bad combination of asshole and dumb and we worry they will block our move just to mess with us.
Submitted September 15, 2015 at 10:22AM by velvetino http://ift.tt/1M89EYH relationships
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