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.
You are defending the landlord by proxy. You are falsely assuming that OP is inconveniencing their fellow housemates and raising costs. You have no proof.
From OP’s description and comments, it’s very likely that OP and their fellow tenants do not pay the electricity bill. The landlord covers the bill. If OP suggested an increase to their rent to offset the window use, that shouldn’t raise rent or utilities for others. OP could give the landlord or their fellow tenants the money for this in a number of ways to mitigate the cost to their housemates, if the situation is different.
If, due to OP’s actions, their roommates become hot, they can let them know. They haven’t from the information we were provided. It’s fair to be concerned for the housemates, without assuming bad faith from OP and saying they should be kicked to the curb with false weather stats to back up your point - during an extreme and record-breaking heat wave across the country.
That’s what I thought, you’ve got nothing but “landlord bad, any other nuance means defending the landlord”.
You willfully ignore my nuanced arguments and claim I don’t understand your nuance. OP’s roommates can tell them that their actions are causing them problems, you don’t need to fight their battle when OP admits they are having a panic attack and are clearly under a ton of stress, facing homelessness - that you are cheering on.
What you are doing is akin to saying people should be kicked out at peak coldness during the winter, e.g. kicked out at Christmas, for being a bad tenant. Heat kills too.