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.

  • AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    147·
    20 hours ago

    You change your mind on a matter of contract law based on how I respond to someone who literally only wrote that first line at the time I responded, then edited the entire rest of their comment in.

    You’re not a serious person and the law isn’t as fickle and stupid as you are. This is a serious issue and situation and you’re here purely for a infantile social pile on. Touch grass.

      • Michael@slrpnk.net
        43·
        17 hours ago

        You’re not helping if you say:

        Now I’m pretty sure you’re a shitty tenant who’s about to get evicted. You and the landlord both are probably imperfect, and I’m not really gonna bother with too many details since I think you posted more for validation than for advice, but I think your landlord has a slam dunk case if he finds your account here with posts and comments.

        So, you said before that don’t care about the details, yet now you say “I suspect that you’re likely leaving out significant details.”

        Doubting OP isn’t helping them or making their situation any better. It’s not helping them be a better tenant or to help them to realistically deal with their current situation and achieve a favorable outcome for both parties.

        If their landlord can’t even send a rental agreement in a legible, clear copy, and is in good faith somehow - how could they find this post? I highly doubt that the landlord could even hire a lawyer for this that could find this post for them. Even tech-savvy people don’t know about the fediverse.

        You are telling OP to cope in a broken system, saying they are emotionally immature, telling them to go to therapy (which they very likely can’t afford), you are loosely saying they are seeking out victimhood and bad experiences, you are telling them to introspect when they clearly are facing abuse and some level of their violation of their rights as a tenant…

        Your attitude and choices are probably the cause of most of your challenges here, and you’re really not bothering to have an open mind to any answer that isn’t wildly supportive of your side.

        Sometimes, people go their entire lives facing discrimination and a complete isolation from the people around them, even the people they pay to help them.

        If I were you, I’d choose to not be someone who discriminates against them and takes the side of somebody who is being likely being completely unreasonable (unwilling to increase rate as a compromise to window being open) and abusing a (likely) vulnerable person as a power play.

        I choose to believe people who say they’ve faced stigma, discrimination, abuse, bad experiences, and every time I am surprised to see indicators that they were in fact telling the truth. They may have even left out details. Who cares if they exaggerated a few points, or weren’t as perfect as they claim to have been. Humans don’t need to be perfect to be deserving of kindness, care, and empathy or to be allowed the dignity to live their lives and thrive.