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9 years ago
Heya Everyone.
I'm not the most open person. In fact, I often push myself aside for others. I feel with all the support I have gotten from my fellow furries, you deserve to hear the whole story.
We moved into the place we are at now July 1st. I'm not getting into too much detail ( as that will be in my Go-Fund me whenever I get it up ), but to sum it up, our landlord is abusive, discriminate, and worse of all, a greedy, money eyed filled man.
Our first incident was when my roommate cut her finger open on the mailbox - because of instead paying the money to FIX IT, the landlord ducktaped it.
The next incident was when my sister emailed our landlord to ask if we could put her two year old REAL Avacado plant outside because it wasn't getting enough sun.
He agreed to allow her to do so, yet after just ONE HOUR of her plant being outside, his wife threw it in the trash.
Now, it may not seem like such a big deal to people - but my sister LOVED her plant. She grew it from a seed. She bought an avocado from the store, ate it, and planted the seed.
For two years she spent hundreds buying nutrient filled soil, special non-salt water, and in a blink of a eye, her 'child' was taken from her.
He refused to replace it. He said "It looked dead, and the soil was dry."
The next incident was when a tenant from downstairs came up to our apartment high on drugs. She was screaming "I WANT MY STUFF BACK", but we didn't HAVE any of her things!
She pushed her way into our apartment, and hit my sister. Granted, it wasn't hard, but it was enough to scare us knowing there was a girl high on drugs just crazy enough to come attack us out of NO WHERE.
We instantly called the police after we managed to get her out of the apartment.
What did our landlord do? Talk to her right? Let us out of the lease so we aren't in danger, right?
NOPE.
"The police will handle."
Yet it states in the lease that HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR SAFETY, and keeping us in a unplace safe and doing NOTHING about it is against the lease.
Then... damages.
The doors had holes, and you could see if someone was on the toilet.
Things were-and continue to fall apart. The screens in the windows kept falling out - our cats out on the window sill of a 4 story apartment. He even went as far as blaming US or the CATS, and we are "costing him money".
We had to call 'Property Standards', and they had to come make a report, and take pictures. He was then given a month to fix everything in the apartment.
One day, he gave us notice - a 12 hour window, saying a repair man would be in our apartment ALL DAY.
I emailed to clarify, asking if he would be there ALL DAY, or in and our.
He said 'All day'.
When he came, stayed a hour and left, I emailed him telling him he was to give us proper time requirements, as I had called the Landlord Tenant Board to get the proper information about notices.
I told him I would NOT be letting him back into the apartment, as he had been gone FIVE HOURS.
When he came back, my sister calmly tried to explain to him we were given wrong notices.
The man stormed off, threatening to call the city on us.
Later that night, we received an eviction notice.
Apparently my sister had screamed at the worker. This was proved to be false - as we have the incident on video.
He didn't even properly file the eviction notice the Service Canada =/
YET HE DIDN'T EVEN SPEAK TO THE TENANT THAT ATTACKED MY SISTER. YET "YELLING" AT A WORKER IS CAUSE ENOUGH FOR AN EVICTION NOTICE!!!
We don't have any heat, all of us constantly freezing, and we can't do anything about it.
He refuses to speak to us in person. We have numerous videos where he completely ignores us, and walks away, saying "only by email".
He claimed to have a mental disability, and that is why he cannot run the building.
We have even spoken to other tenants, who give him the same 'report'. He raises his voice and yells, and he doesn't like doing ANYTHING that requires him loosing any money.
We are currently speaking to lawyers about 'pain and suffering', as I mentioned previously my sister ended up in the hospital after a mental break down due to all the stress.
I haven't been able to work on art the past couple days due to my shaky fingers.
We went to our hearing. But his lawyer intimidated us, and since we didn't have any representation - we didn't go to the hearing.
Instead, we 'negotiated', and landed with $600 , because he came over before we got to speak to anyone else.
That's not nearly what we NEEDED. It will barely cover our moving costs, and we still need last months rent.
We had a WHOLE binder thick full of emails and evidence, we brought our laptop with the videos... but NOTHING was looked at.
We're in a shit hole, and now my sister has to go back to therapy because she's having suicidal thoughts. I hate seeing my sister in such a hole, and HE PUT HER THERE. She feels like she has NO control over her life.
We have to leave in two months, and we still don't know where to go.
And with my Grandfather's passing, we're worried about even having the money to go say goodbye to him.
So, to sum it up, my life is hell right now, and my mental state is getting worse. I know I have to be strong for my sister, but I'm getting weaker.
I'm not the most open person. In fact, I often push myself aside for others. I feel with all the support I have gotten from my fellow furries, you deserve to hear the whole story.
We moved into the place we are at now July 1st. I'm not getting into too much detail ( as that will be in my Go-Fund me whenever I get it up ), but to sum it up, our landlord is abusive, discriminate, and worse of all, a greedy, money eyed filled man.
Our first incident was when my roommate cut her finger open on the mailbox - because of instead paying the money to FIX IT, the landlord ducktaped it.
The next incident was when my sister emailed our landlord to ask if we could put her two year old REAL Avacado plant outside because it wasn't getting enough sun.
He agreed to allow her to do so, yet after just ONE HOUR of her plant being outside, his wife threw it in the trash.
Now, it may not seem like such a big deal to people - but my sister LOVED her plant. She grew it from a seed. She bought an avocado from the store, ate it, and planted the seed.
For two years she spent hundreds buying nutrient filled soil, special non-salt water, and in a blink of a eye, her 'child' was taken from her.
He refused to replace it. He said "It looked dead, and the soil was dry."
The next incident was when a tenant from downstairs came up to our apartment high on drugs. She was screaming "I WANT MY STUFF BACK", but we didn't HAVE any of her things!
She pushed her way into our apartment, and hit my sister. Granted, it wasn't hard, but it was enough to scare us knowing there was a girl high on drugs just crazy enough to come attack us out of NO WHERE.
We instantly called the police after we managed to get her out of the apartment.
What did our landlord do? Talk to her right? Let us out of the lease so we aren't in danger, right?
NOPE.
"The police will handle."
Yet it states in the lease that HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR SAFETY, and keeping us in a unplace safe and doing NOTHING about it is against the lease.
Then... damages.
The doors had holes, and you could see if someone was on the toilet.
Things were-and continue to fall apart. The screens in the windows kept falling out - our cats out on the window sill of a 4 story apartment. He even went as far as blaming US or the CATS, and we are "costing him money".
We had to call 'Property Standards', and they had to come make a report, and take pictures. He was then given a month to fix everything in the apartment.
One day, he gave us notice - a 12 hour window, saying a repair man would be in our apartment ALL DAY.
I emailed to clarify, asking if he would be there ALL DAY, or in and our.
He said 'All day'.
When he came, stayed a hour and left, I emailed him telling him he was to give us proper time requirements, as I had called the Landlord Tenant Board to get the proper information about notices.
I told him I would NOT be letting him back into the apartment, as he had been gone FIVE HOURS.
When he came back, my sister calmly tried to explain to him we were given wrong notices.
The man stormed off, threatening to call the city on us.
Later that night, we received an eviction notice.
Apparently my sister had screamed at the worker. This was proved to be false - as we have the incident on video.
He didn't even properly file the eviction notice the Service Canada =/
YET HE DIDN'T EVEN SPEAK TO THE TENANT THAT ATTACKED MY SISTER. YET "YELLING" AT A WORKER IS CAUSE ENOUGH FOR AN EVICTION NOTICE!!!
We don't have any heat, all of us constantly freezing, and we can't do anything about it.
He refuses to speak to us in person. We have numerous videos where he completely ignores us, and walks away, saying "only by email".
He claimed to have a mental disability, and that is why he cannot run the building.
We have even spoken to other tenants, who give him the same 'report'. He raises his voice and yells, and he doesn't like doing ANYTHING that requires him loosing any money.
We are currently speaking to lawyers about 'pain and suffering', as I mentioned previously my sister ended up in the hospital after a mental break down due to all the stress.
I haven't been able to work on art the past couple days due to my shaky fingers.
We went to our hearing. But his lawyer intimidated us, and since we didn't have any representation - we didn't go to the hearing.
Instead, we 'negotiated', and landed with $600 , because he came over before we got to speak to anyone else.
That's not nearly what we NEEDED. It will barely cover our moving costs, and we still need last months rent.
We had a WHOLE binder thick full of emails and evidence, we brought our laptop with the videos... but NOTHING was looked at.
We're in a shit hole, and now my sister has to go back to therapy because she's having suicidal thoughts. I hate seeing my sister in such a hole, and HE PUT HER THERE. She feels like she has NO control over her life.
We have to leave in two months, and we still don't know where to go.
And with my Grandfather's passing, we're worried about even having the money to go say goodbye to him.
So, to sum it up, my life is hell right now, and my mental state is getting worse. I know I have to be strong for my sister, but I'm getting weaker.
xBlueAshes
!xblueashes
OP
Thank you for your words <3 It's rough, but I try to stay hopeful.
WhispTheFox
~whispthefox
Almost sounds like the tenements in the late 1800s. That is one heck of a hellhole. My dad owns 3 apartment buildings and I've gone to help him repair things numerous times. I can't imagine what it must be like living with a landlord like that, nor do I want to. When your GoFundme page is up I'll help if I can. I hope your sister recovers from th onset of depression she is going through.
