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.

  • klankin@piefed.caEnglish
    45·
    23 hours ago

    I’m the last person to support landlords, but a dehumidifier is essentially a heat pump, whereas an ac is a heat pump in reverse - both arent 100% efficient though, and so are using power to remove heat, then power to create heat is at best wasted power.

    That being said I can’t imagine op would even be able to survive with a heat pump warming their place in this weather anyways.

    • Michael@slrpnk.net
      73·
      22 hours ago

      Sucks for the landlord’s power bill, but the people who commented here can do better. Sorry to lump you in with them. I wouldn’t want a landlord micromanaging my window use by shutting it themselves and demanding I keep it shut, especially if I had some valid reasons.

      I suggested a dehumidifier because damage/mold was brought up, definitely wouldn’t be very viable as you suggest (especially in regards to temperature). Thanks for keeping it grounded and fair, and you are right that hot air would be pulled in, but I’m not too sure about that having a major effect to the point of very expensive damage or major effects on power, especially if OP’s door is shut and considering other factors, such as climate, room size, and it being a single window.

      Some of the arguments here in the larger thread do make sense, pulling in hot air and another commenter suggesting that it would cause an effect across the house, pulling outside air from other cracks and openings and increasing humidity/temp throughout the building, but I feel that the effect on the house/system is minimal if it’s a single window in a small room.

      I have a weather app (Breezy Weather) that shows me a humidity graph, that could be helpful for OP if they are reading this.