Good morning! I have a few questions about some apartment issues I've been having:
The board of the apartment building that I live in noticed a (bad) smell in my floor's hallway a few weeks ago. I moved in 6 months ago and am the only new tenant on the floor. For this reason, and I assume because I have cats, they contacted my landlord and told her I was causing a smell and needed to take care of it. The smell, for the record, is a musty, mildew-y, mothball smell. I've had cats my whole life. They only smell if they 1.) pee or 2.) the litter box hasn't been scooped; neither is the case.
So, following a thorough cleaning of my apartment, the board once again contacted my landlord and said the smell is still there and she needs to do something. At this point, I had just returned from vacation and noticed the refrigerator wasn't working - I lost a lot of food and there was a definite odor, and while it didn't match the one in the hallway (and the timelines don't line up) I told her maybe that's it, cleaned out and bleached the refrigerator and requested the maintenance man come take a look. After a week, he still hadn't been there and, although cleaned, the fridge still had a rotten food type smell coming from it.
He finally came last week and, while there, contacted my landlord and said there was floor damage from a potential A/C leak (which I hadn't noticed) - my landlord requested to come inspect the apartment herself because there was so much happening. She came this past Sunday, and CONFIRMED that my apartment does not smell anywhere except by the fridge. She then proceeded to blame me for the broken refrigerator (which is over 8 years old), the leaking A/C (??) and a pipe leak from earlier in the year (again, nothing I could've done to cause that)
She is now requiring that, by the end of the day today I: 1. hire a deep cleaning service to remove the smell to appease the board (which, again, isn't my apartment) 2. hire a bi-weekly cleaning service to ensure them smell doesn't return 3. provide vaccination proof for my two cats - who never go outside or interact with other animals. they were vaccinated early last year and reacted terribly to it and I don't want to put them through that again if it's not legally necessary. and, if she can legally mandate this, what are the required vaccines?
so my question is - what, legally, can she make me do?
any advice would be greatly appreciated, I'm extremely stressed out about this entire situation
Submitted August 01, 2017 at 06:55PM by lh2107 http://ift.tt/2whGljR legaladvice
