noodles
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Post by noodles on Dec 4, 2008 13:29:27 GMT -5
I'm just curious. Has anyone had a landlord see squalor and evict without a chance to clean up? Or did you clean up and still get evicted? I've already been given a warning for mine, so I'm curious about your stories
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Post by clearwaterush on Dec 4, 2008 20:36:56 GMT -5
As a landlord, in the Landlords Rights, a renter must keep the rental in a sanitary condition. Read your contract very carefully. Our contract says The resident shall, comply with the requirements imposed upon residents which materially affect and safety and agrees to keep the premises in a clean and safe condition.
As landlords, we have not evicted anyone for squalor. We try to get them to clean up on their own. We had one renter that rented for 6 years, paid every month, so we left them alone until we had to get into the apt. to fix something. We then explained about sanitation and welfare and to clean up their apt. Which they always did when we suggested it.
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Blackswan
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Post by Blackswan on Dec 4, 2008 21:30:32 GMT -5
I have heard of it happening. Start cleaning right away! You can do it!
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Post by fluffernut - now Jannie on Dec 4, 2008 22:31:20 GMT -5
Clutter can be a killer. My mother has a very cluttered house. She refuses to throw anything, especially furniture, away. She has one bedroom so stuffed with furniture-I mean beds, bookcases, hundreds of books, that the ceiling in the room below is caving in. My brother lives with her. He was in the Army,Gulf War, 1991 got shrapnel in his back. One morning he was in so much pain he couldn't get out of bed. Mom called 911, they sent an ambulance, but the EMT's couldn't get the stretcher to my brother's bedroom. There was too much stuff in the way. They moved stuff around and finally got to him.
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josecheung
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Post by josecheung on Dec 5, 2008 1:21:27 GMT -5
Last week I read a story about the Seattle Marathon. Two of the women who'd completed it were living in transitional housing for people who'd been living in homeless shelters. One of them said she'd become homeless after she was evicted from her apartment for "neglect", which she blamed on her alcoholism.
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Post by rainbowgoddess on Dec 5, 2008 2:48:38 GMT -5
I got a notice from the owners of the building I live in telling me to clean up. I cleaned up. I did contact the Residential Tenancy Office to find out what my rights and responsibilities were in this kind of situation, and they told me that in my province, the landlord does have to ask the tenant to remedy the situation before they can proceed with eviction. I'm still waiting to hear if I did a good enough job to be able to keep my apartment. The vacancy rate in my city is 0.3 percent, and most of the available rental housing is out of my price range and does not allow cats. I refuse to give up my cats, so I have to make sure I can stay here.
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