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.

  • 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.

  • 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)

  • 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.

  • I LIKE THE FRESH AIR.

  • 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.

  • Michael@slrpnk.net
    53·
    18 hours ago

    If they were concerned with shared ventilation why move there in the first place?

    OP was pretty clear in their past posts that there is nothing affordable in their area. They are facing housing insecurity. We have no idea of their situation unless OP shared more details in past postings. I checked the post from today and their past post. They may have physical or mental health problems, employment issues, etc. This all impacts one’s ability to work and make money to afford somewhere to live, and I think everybody knows that California is an extremely expensive area to live in.

    If the landlord was concerned about the electricity bill, why didn’t they include a term in the lease/rental agreement to keep the window shut when the A/C is on? OP even suggested to their landlord to raise their rate because they keep their window open and they refused and instead took the actions that OP described in this thread, in addition to forcibly shutting OP’s window from the outside.

    Also if it’s “too cold” then why are they making the argument that they can just “shut the vent in the room” in order to appease the landlord for having the window open? They could shut the vent and keep the window closed to keep it warmer in the room.

    I’m of the opinion that tenants should have thermostats or some form of temperature control. Shutting the vent and keeping the window closed doesn’t sound ideal in the summer there, with today being a high of low-mid 90s (20-25% humidity).

    They have cats that need to go out to live a life outside of the closet-sized room OP currently stays in. OP has a large litterbox that needs ventilation. I am an advocate for responsible pet ownership and I have a hard time not saying to people that outdoor cats should be indoor cats for various important reasons like the disruption that cats cause to the ecosystem, but when I see a thread like this with a pressing issue (losing their housing), my mind goes to triage. How can we support OP? We can inform them of their rights, use this opportunity to educate and inform them, and most importantly support them emotionally.