TL;DR: college Housing departement says we have to move all personal belongings INCLUDING FOOD out of the shared common area for a duration of 2 weeks so that they can clean the common area. They say any items left in the common area will be considered "abandoned" and subsequently taken away. I am within the Lease and have renewed it for another 12 months. How is this legal? I don't have the time to deal with this, what should I do?
Long post: I live in and pay for an apartment on my college campus. the Lease is renewed every 12 months which I have already done. Recently the housing department sent out an email saying that we have to have EVERYTHING located in the common areas removed to our own personal rooms so that they can clean the shared space. They also state that anything remaining will be thrown away. The time period we are given for this is from July 27th till August 11th: that's 2 whole weeks.
Apart from the complete ridiculousness of having to remove everything for 2 whole weeks out of a room that I pay for I have neither the time nor the patience to babysit my stuff in fear that they will take it away. I am actively living in my apartment and I am still within the lease.; there is no way that my things could be considered abandoned. Surely taking away our things would be illegal.
Most importantly though we can't store food in our Refrigerator/freezer. What the hell am I supposed to with my perishable goods? I'm paying for this apartment, I shouldn't have to spend more money to go get a cooler and have it full of ice for 2 weeks.
I already sent them a very professional email (I had it proofread by neutral parties so it wasn't an angry letter) saying that what they are asking of us, while understandable, is unreasonable and unrealistic but that if they could provided us a window of time of one or two days then I would be able to comply no problem. Of course they respond back with the general "It's department policy, sorry we can't do anything, yadda yadda".
What the hell should I do? I'm not displacing my life for 2 whole weeks just because of some stupid department policy. Or do I just need to suck it up and just deal with it?
I am considering sending a handwritten letter of complaint up the chain, though I am not too sure were it should go.
If you want I can provide copies of the emails with personal information removed.
Submitted July 21, 2016 at 03:08AM by CommodoreCrunch99 http://ift.tt/2a1e5dc legaladvice
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