my previous post from yesterday https://lemmy.ml/post/49529603
The good news I guess is that the timer starts on monday because the 3rd is the jurisdictional court’s (might as well say Riverside County, CA) holiday for the 4th. And after my last post I went and bought a security camera, so worst case I can document my window being closed if I want to be a stupid coward that lets bullies play Calvinball with signed contracts against me. With my fucking life.
And it’s just really important to me that the window stay open in my room. It’s a whole list of deal breakers.
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I don’t want to get fucking covid from the 8 other units filled with people here because I’m the last weirdo that goes to work and the store with a mask on. When I keep the window closed because of paranoia over this conflict, I feel like I need to mask in my own bedroom. And that’s fucked.
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This luxurious closet sized bedroom is too small for a full sized person and two large cats to live on top of each other. They need to be able to lay out on the patio and enjoy life. And they need to be able to run back inside if something scares them, like the many coyote that have wilderness right fucking next door and I have seen in our back yard with my cats running from them. Can’t do ‘open it when they want back in’ no how, no way. (There’s also a giant drama about gates that enclose a section of the yard that apparently me closing them at night drives them into a steaming rage but keeps my guys safe)
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There’s 80 pounds of goddamned cat litter right next to the window and 8 feet from where I sit at the computer and sleep. I need the ventilation.
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I LIKE THE FRESH AIR.
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The A/C is too fucking cold anyway
In addition to buying the security camera (fuck I need an sd card of course it’s separate) I also started looking for a new place to be miserable with a live-in landlord for too goddamned much money. But this shit is on a timeline WAY faster than that. Fuck.
So I don’t want to be cowed by this. But I also don’t want to get my life all fucked up by it. I don’t want this demon to steal a whole month’s rent (waited until the day after I paid this month’s rent the fucking parasite) AND a 600 dollar penalty if I lose. Not to mention paying 4x what I can afford for an extended stay room…
I’m completely in the right but on the other hand do you think the judge rents, or do you think it’s more likely they have some rental properties of their own and all their sentiments are with the law breaker psycho landlord?
Anyway this is my panic attack post
edit: I am purposefully not engaging with any comments on the subject of whether or not my landlord has a genuine gripe about me having my window open and my door closed in a room that does not have a temperature sensor for the A/C system. I offered to close the vent. I offered to have my rent raised to compensate. All was ignored. It’s about power tripping. So this post is about my rights in the face of that.
ITT people dog-piling somebody in a shitty situation, in a shitty society, who can’t find adequate and affordable housing and arguing in defense of a landlord who won’t give them a clear copy of their renter’s agreement (and is charging for a printed copy) and who has forcibly closed OP’s window from the outside.
See OP’s edit:
Keep your window closed when it’s high temp, high humidity OP (consider the cat door for the window) and ignore these trolls who are trying to provoke you and make you feel bad. You did everything right, you even offered to have your rent increased.
Yeah what the fuck is all this siding with the landlord about? I thought we were leftists lmao. If I were OP I would stay out of Lemmy for a bit, the replies in this thread are probably just making the panic attack worse.
I don’t care about the nitty gritty details of the issue with the AC or the door or whatever, I don’t know why everyone is paying so much thought to that. The major problem is that the landlord is abusing an authority that is barely even legitimate to begin with, and is threatening OP with eviction if they don’t obey; the specific circumstances in which such abuse has materialized is irrelevant. They are especially irrelevant if you are going to play lawyer with them to uphold the landlord’s authority.
I think that we as a community should avoid this kind of behavior.
Sending you strength, OP
People arent siding with the landlord, they’re siding with not leaving windows open with the A/C running as that is just wasting tons of energy over OP’s neroticism.
People definitely are at times, and at other times are just actively against OP for not taking abuse quietly when they are seeking support.
Let me break it down with direct quotes:
Defending the landlord, who they view as an asshole, and simultaneously insulting the character of OP.
Defending the landlord forcibly closing the window and accusing OP of causing trouble.
Person lying about the weather and saying they want OP kicked to the curb for wanting to have their window open in their closet-sized room for fresh air, for their cats to live a dignified life despite OP’s limitations in being able to find adequate room for them to live indoors, to avoid the effects of shared ventilation and lack of temperature controls (including concerns about COVID).
Person overblowing humidity concerns/damage in Riverside, California (which is a relatively dry climate compared to some areas).
They are referencing when OP responded to a commenter who said “Do you often feel like everyone is against you no matter where you go?”, to which they replied and called them out on having a “snide chud attitude”. Which isn’t my choice of words, but it’s not a slur or a form of bigotry IMO to say that somebody has a bad attitude in a strong way, so who cares. Sometimes people have emotional outbursts to abusive comments or remarks, OP was responding to abuse.
More abuse.
OP didn’t react the best, which is understandable, they are in a tough situation and facing housing insecurity. I can’t imagine what that feels like in California.
Last time I was homeless was California for three years. I had to get into an abusive relationship to get off the street. I’m currently scared shirtless that I’m going to be homeless soon again. At the rate that homelessness is increasing, half the country will likely end up homeless in ten years
Well they won’t freeze to death. Maybe if they weren’t a giant asshole people would like them.
They will just die of heat stroke in an unforgiving hellscape, while data centers that produce/facilitate slop/mass surveillance accelerate climate change and fresh water depletion. No big deal, right?
So let me get this straight:
If you’re rich, you’re privileged to destroy the planet and to live however you please.
If you’re poor, you don’t deserve pets and you deserve to die of exposure, without a fair opportunity for shelter, because you said somebody’s attitude had the characteristics of being snide and chud-like when they were abusing you and because you were perceivably a bad tenant from the perspective of online trolls.
Thanks for bullying this vulnerable user and exposing your ideology.
Cry me a fucking river. You get what you give in terms of positivity on the internet. I’m just redirecting their negativity back at them.
You get off on that, you aren’t guiding them to a better path. You want to traumatize OP. Not happening on my watch. Try again while I’m off-duty.
Maybe more people will pick up the torch to support the hell out of the OP’s you choose to abuse. It must be self-defeating to imagine that you might be motivating people (who have more empathy than you) helping the people you work hard to psychologically torture.
Wow, thank you white knight! Where would the internet be without you?!
OP’s landlord is threatening with eviction. Are you aware how fucking serious that is? In the current climate, this alone can single-handedly ruin someone’s life and future. Eviction shouldn’t even be on the table, and it wouldn’t be, if it wasn’t because of scalpers hoarding the entire housing market, and then holding working class people hostage if they don’t play by the landlord’s petty rules (which includes paying a fuckton of money monthly!)
The instant that the landlord threatened with eviction, they positioned themselves solidly in the wrong. For such a disproportionate threat to be justified, there should be reasonable suspicion that the tenant is going to commit homicide or plant a bomb or something over that level. Anything below that is an abuse of power, and said power is only as legitimate as scalping the market is.
I literally couldn’t care less about AC or the window, and you are either being dishonest or acting like a shitty human being if you unironlically claim that the way OP uses AC warrants a threat of eviction. Even if OP were 100% in the wrong regarding AC (which is, in turn, not something I agree with, but I’m not getting into that), there is a whole world of difference in scale. By equating these two levels of magnitude, you are definitively siding with the landlord, even if you don’t explicitly claim to do so (and you are, thus, also positioning yourself solidly in the wrong).
Also, y’all should be ashamed to call OP ‘insufferable’ for replying in a slightly mean tone after continuously being told that akshually maybe the landlord is right, and that they’re oh such a troublesome tennant, after being threatened with fucking eviction.
Wow what a moral crusader you are.
Since half your rant is discussing housing, high costs, and the plight of the working class, I’m quite shocked that you have no issue with OP causing every other tenant in this shared house to not only not have cool air in their home, but also force them to pay sky high energy costs to blow a bunch of cooled air outside for no reason at all.
I absolutely guarantee that if OP had come here and said “my housemate refuses to close their window throughout the day which keeps the air conditioner from working and leaves us with a huge energy bill every month” you’d be right here spouting the similar outrage but directed at the person selfishly leaving the window open. I don’t take a single thing you said seriously because it’s so absurd and over the top.
OP has absolutely zero justification for what they’re doing. Keeping the window open isn’t going to keep them from getting COVID, they claim it’s “too cold” yet also claim they “can just close the vent,” and they claim they have 80lbs of stinky cat litter sitting on the floor which is their own damn fault. What this sounds like to me is untreated mental illness which is causing everyone else in their house problems. If they don’t want to get evicted then maybe they should focus on that and stop forcing their problems on everyone else.