Hi all- I will try to make this as short as possible.
I moved out of my parents' house when I was 20, about 14 months ago. A friend of mine lived in a double, and his family was moving out and he invited me and another friend to take over his mother's lease and live there with him. It was an ideal opportunity; Three 20-22 year Olds living together, each with their own room, full kitchen, living room, dining rolm, etc. Not saying it's enormous but it's generous for my first time renting.
Our lease is oral- which means nothing is written. Since we "took over" the lease, all my landlord checked for was basically that we didn't have a criminal record and had steady jobs. There were barely any stipulations that she expressed to us new tenants, other than we need to mow the lawn, shovel the snow, take out the trash every week. I guess she expected that our roommate who had already been living there for sometime would explain everything to us.
So the past few months, since we've gotten a new tenant on the opposite side of the house, there have been a few unhappy encounters with our landlord. Mainly, with the driveway- our landlord has threatened to tow cars that don't belong to the tenants, asking for the tenants' license plate numbers to have on file. A couple weeks ago, our neighbor wasn't able to pull into her own driveway at 3 a.m., which she was understandably unhappy about (I live in a heavily populated area with minimal parking.) She complained to our landlord, though it was an honest mistake of our new roommate to let his friends park there, which then led to a meeting with my 2 roommates, our landlord, and i.
She sat down at our dining room table and proceeded to yell at us. She told us we are all irresponsible and immature. And we should know better. She told us that we all just need to grow the hell up. She said how she could charge so much more for this space. Insinuating that we're ungrateful and that we know nothing because this is our first time away from "mommy and daddy". Literally while pointing and waving her finger at us.
I feel she attacks me personally. During this meeting she brought up how our dryer had broken a few months prior. I, not fully knowing or remembering the terms of our oral lease, asked her through text message (the only way any of us ever communicate with her, and her us) what the deal was. I told her my understanding is that she owns the house, as well as the appliances that had come with the house. I asked her to explain why I was responsible for replacing the dryer. She responded with "I told you that I'd replace the stove and refrigerator only. I'm not responsible for replacing the washer, dryer, or air conditioning units." (There was a lot more to that, but that's basically what she had said.) My was response was ok thank you for clarifying.
She brought up this text conversation during the meeting, and told me that to text something like that was immature, offensive, and disrepefctul. Then she told me that I need to grow up "the most."
So come to today- our kitchen sink started leaking last night, which I didn't find out until after 11 p.m. when I was getting off of work. My roommate had already spoken to her and she was going to come to the house the following day (today) at noon.
Both of my roommates had gone to work, and I had to be at work by 1. Landlord arrives promptly at noon, but spends the first 35 minutes that she is here in the backyard discussing property lines and fencing possibilities. I shower and begin to get ready for work- I am getting dressed in my room when I hear her repeatedly yelling hellllooooo and I holler back, give me a minute I'm getting dressed. She keeps yelling saying things like I have to get back to work, or this is on my time. So I run downstairs and ask her what I can help her with, she was upset that nobody had gotten draino or something to help the issue and suggests that I better do it now. The only words I said to her were "i have to go to work-" then she cut me off and said things along the line of well I should be at work, I'm sick of your attitude and that look on your face, either grow up or move out, im sick of your sarcasm, you guys expect me to just drop everything and do everything for you, all while yelling and pointing her finger.
Mind you, we all pay our rent on time, we pay our gas, electric, wifi; I pay my phone bill, my student loan bill, buy groceries, clean my house, rake/mow my lawn. We all take care of our responsibilities. We just painted the entire downstairs portion of our house. We replaced our (her) dryer.
I know I need to find a new place to live, what I'm looking for is advice as to what to do in the meantime. I already avoid speaking with her as much as I can, just because it never ends civilly. I try to defend myself, but she literally never let's me get a word in. I can't even explain the look on her face when I even begin to speak. She's given me the ultimatum "grow up or move out" too many times for me to be comfortable with.
So sorry this ended being a much longer rant than intended....
TL;DR; landlord doesn't like me, evident in my handful of face to face interactions with her, and I'm afraid she will evict me on short notice because of it.
Submitted October 16, 2015 at 09:51AM by coulduseadrink http://ift.tt/1RLuAXV relationships
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