#me bitching

I am writing this email in regards to the property at 549 Dresden and the issues there in the past 4 months that I’ve been a tenant. I’ve got a document with every single date and correspondence that I’ve had to initiate over problems at the house. So far, I’ve tried to be understanding and patient and haven’t asked for any concessions but at this point I feel it’s warranted.

As of right now, I have not been able to occupy my house because of the mold issue for 7 days. I was just messaged at 2pm by ServPro that everything was finished. On top of having to find a place to stay during that time, I’ve also lost out on revenue as I have a small business in addition to my main job that I haven’t been able to conduct because I can’t be home. Not to mention the food I’m going to have to toss because it’s been a week (not withstanding that fact that when I did get to the house Friday afternoon to pack a bag to go stay somewhere else, the fridge had been unplugged by Servpro. I have no clue how long it was unplugged and will have to toss EVERYTHING). Plus, I’m going to have disinfect and deep clean all of my clothing, bedding and furniture - basically anything that wasn’t secured in a box or tote.

Adding this to the fact that prior to this I wasn’t able to actually use my shower without the flooding for at least a week before - the leak, although not visible and tangible as it was towards the end with the puddling - was the reason for the insect infestation starting early October. I have the receipt for the UV light I purchased to try and combat it on Oct 12. I also have text messages between myself and loved ones where I discuss the flies and the fact that I was feeling so sick and fatigued and couldn’t understand why. Now after speaking to my doctor, the mold issue was almost certain to be an exacerbating factor if not the sole one.

When I signed the lease I had to email because the place had not been cleaned. While I appreciate the quickness that a crew was sent out to vacuum and clean all the dead flies etc, when I actually was able to move my belongings a few days later, I realized the AC wasn’t working. While trying to determine that I had found the dead mouse. Again, maintenance came to clean that. But from that point it was another TWENTY days I had to wait until the HVAC was rectified - in this case it had to be completely replaced including the units themselves and all the duct work. During those 20 days, nearly all of August the hottest month of year, I had to spend like $80 of my own money to buy fans just to make it sort of tolerable. When I asked the inspector the damage was from mice, he said no. It was just from age and no one maintaining it.

I cannot help but believe this all to be due to negligence at this point. When was this house last properly inspected? I know it was empty for several months based on the info I gathered from Zillow. If it had been inspected properly the mouse, the broken AC and the water damage would have almost definitely be found.

I think with all of this, I am more than entitled to having my rent waived for two months, December and January. If you add the time from August I had no AC, having to buy fans, the weeks of dealing with bugs leading to not having a way to shower to having to be out of the house completely for a week (which your company/the owner would have had to pay for me to be at a hotel but luckily I had someone I could stay with), the health issues it caused, the stress, loss of potential income and the loss of food would probably add up to more than the $2000 two months of rent would cost.