Manalto wrote:Willa wrote:
Phil are you talking about the images of where the windows CAME FROM ? Go back to the first page of this thread, and start reading there.
Obviously that's what he meant but he sure did work himself up into a lather, didn't he?
I was pretty confused about the ruckus over one cement step.
The Nightmare Apartment though: holy building code, building maintenance, and fire code violations. Plus an amateur psychopath landlord with no clue how to repair anything, who was a fountain of lies. There were escalating conflicts between the apartment above me, the hair salon below me and me with the landlord. "Someone" called the building inspector. "Someone else" contacted the Fire Marshall. Many citations and work orders happened. Meanwhile the landlord just wouldn't answer his phone when the building inspector called, and refused to meet with the person. I had $ 300.00 electricity bills and discovered that not only was I paying for the electricity for a water heater (not in the lease), I was also paying for the apartment above's water heater electricity, too. And the electricity for the lights in the stairwell. The hair salon was paying for a couple of my kitchen outlets.
The landlord placed the building for sale. I had a realtor pal do a little research to pull up the sold history. "Mysteriously" - between the time the building had been for sale, then the creep landlord bought it, and it was listed for sale again the lot's dimensions grew ! And my under 700 sq ft apartment was wishfully described as being 1000 sq ft ! Did I mention the owner was a realtor ?
There was a point where the landlord was trying to rope in some investors groups to become partial owners of the property. Landlord's trick was to have them visit the building in the evening, after dark, then take them around to the (unlit) back of the building, so they couldn't see the dire condition of that very alarming porch in my photos, among other obvious issues. They had to walk up a truly frightening fire escape with loose steps, that was not anchored to the ground, in the dark to do this. I'm sure this was one of the reasons they walked away.
I had to take the landlord to the Landlord/Tenant Tribunal. The landlord was such a lying baby that he hired a paralegal to appear for him (not before innundating me with confrontational emails and phone calls. He offered 2/3 of one month's rent to move out. This wouldn't even pay for movers.). The paralegal had been lied to. She claimed that the landlord had purchased a non-refundable flight to Egypt and Greece, so he could not appear in person, only via speaker phone, as he was at the airport awaiting boarding. I was awarded one months rent to refund me for the excess electricity bills.
Now this trip to Egypt and Greece was very odd, given that I knew that there was a pending offer on the building, with an inspection scheduled three days later.
Imagine my "surprise" when liar landlord appeared at my door with the inspector for the buyer. He kept physically putting himself between me and the inspector asking me questions, and talking over me. I was getting pretty angry ! (Twist of fate: the inspector was actually the prospective buyer himself !)
Long story short: in a super hot market like Toronto, his building sold for $ 100,000 UNDER asking as there were many issues that had not been disclosed and needed to be remedied, including pending work orders from the city and Fire Marshall.
After the new owner took possession the hair salon, who had a triple net lease, discovered that her TIM fees (Tax, Insurance, Maintenance) were actually 1/3 what the awful landlord had been charging her.
The Nightmare Apartment was a nightmare in every sense of the word. New landlord was sane and reasonable. I moved out shortly after, to this house.
, they had an opportunity to restore this correctly and retain its charm, but no, they chose the easy way and gutted and pillaged the interior.