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Help us leave a potentially unsafe living situation! Our landlord is facing us with a likely illegal eviction after months of us facing mistreatment and tenant's rights abuse from them. We know they likely cannot follow through as they haven't followed standard legal procedure, but we do not feel safe here and need to gather expenses to cover moving asap with a deadline of June 30th. They have done nothing but use us for months now, and now that they do not need us to pay their mortgage thanks to a new job they're starting soon, they've taken the first excuse they could think of to put us in the street.
For the past several months, we have been living in extremely subpar conditions in a dirty house with limited access to ways to bathe thanks to our landlord. They had us move from Tennessee to Michigan, promising us safe housing and manipulating us by sweet talking us about gardening together, playing games, and forming community. When we got here, we learned the basement room they wanted us to stay in (they said they needed the entire first floor to themself) was unfinished; they do not clean upstairs with any regularity, leading to lots of dust coming down into our room while we cannot regularly bathe, causing skin irritation and breathing issues. Multiple times have they left drinks out that their cats have knocked over, which spilled through the floor directly onto our bed. Additionally, there is no soundproofing; we have no privacy, and they've even joined in private conversations we've had from upstairs.
Our shower has been broken the entire time we have lived here, and the second we brought up the fact we cannot regularly bathe after they told us all about the new high paying job they'll be getting, they served us an eviction notice not even a week later. They had told us the polar opposite not even two weeks before– that they'd stop accepting rent so we could plan to move out. This was going to be a blessing to us, as house prices here aren't horrible, and we had wanted to attempt to get a mortgage and save for a down payment. The bathroom they expect us to use is theirs and is left so dirty and cluttered (often with sex toys left out on the counter) that we cannot leave any of our things in there and have to bring everything up and down with us– which is especially difficult for me as showers tend to make me faint, and theirs does not ventilate steam well. Their solution was to tell me to shower with the door open– something I am now 100% uncomfortable with.
They had blamed all the dirtiness on their former tenants, but within two weeks finally admitted they had an issue with hoarding and cleaning. We offered to help many times, but they were never willing to communicate with us and treated us a if we should have been the sole people responsible for the cleanliness of the house. We did all of the dishes for months while they wouldn't even rinse a single one and would regularly fill the entire sink and all of the counters with dirty dishes. They never clean up after themself when they make messes, which has led to an ant infestation in the kitchen. They also demanded more space in the fridge when they have an entire other fridge still plugged in that we aren't allowed to use because they claim to want to sell it but have not done so for months. Our items in the fridge barely take up the top shelf, one drawer, and a small portion of the bottom shelf while the rest is often occupied by food they leave to rot for months.
They claim to be kicking us out because we are “too expensive to live with”-- citing seeing one of our tiny windows open a few times when they had the AC on. As a social worker you would think they'd understand that some families are neglectful and do not teach things– we understand its annoying, but they leave their windows open literally all the time, have been leaving lights on upstairs at all hours of the day even when they are not home, will not raise the AC above 70° (and even kept it at below legal temperatures over the winter), and still have an entire fridge they apparently do not use plugged in upstairs.
They are horribly neglectful towards their cats as well: two long haired cats and a short haired one that sheds excessively, but they do not brush them. By their own admission, they do not play with their cats either, and we had to tell them to buy their cats toys and scratchboards. They have not clipped their cats claws or gotten them clipped in the entire nearly eight months we have lived here. They clean the cats’ litter boxes maybe once a month, multiple of which sit outside our unfinished basement room. They also neglected to inform us that there was an entire flea infestation in the house prior to us moving in. They have also told us to get rid of our cat who used to be theirs because at the time they agreed to cover her expenses since we had not been prepared to take on a cat, only to suddenly change their mind when we pointed out issues she display repetitively, indicating they likely severely neglected her too– and this took place not even a week after we told them they needed to take care of their boys better because they wanted to bring two more cats into the house. We know she was confined to a single room that is even smaller than the one we are in now and had her boundaries violated often by their own admission as well.
We have been trying so hard to make nice and keep the peace– we have some evidence of their mistreatment, as we've recorded our entire group chat and have taken pictures and videos of some of the dirty areas of the house, but we don't know that its enough to help us in the event they do take us to court. They have a tendency to corner us in our room or the kitchen. Often times to talk about themself and the latest person they've hung out with (aka the latest person they had so something for them, buy something for them, or had some sort of ~physical encounter~ with; they are vocal about when they hang out with other people and the hang outs always fall into one of these three categories), but the second it comes to us, they end the conversation. They are extremely condescending and treated us in a way that reinforces both of our varieties of trauma. Lately they have even begun altering their sleep patterns so we cannot even be awake and doing things quietly like feeding ourselves without them looming over us in the background. They stress we're in is affecting our cat too, leading to her refusing to eat decently often. We had thought we'd had more time. That maybe we were finally close to having a safe space to call our own. We shared our plans with them and almost immediately they began talking us down. Not even a week later, they served us an eviction notice out of nowhere, knowing we have no other friends in this town and our family is all the way back in Tennessee. They were not willing to even discuss it and come to a compromise– it is clear we've served our use to them.
Thankfully we are planning to move into an apartment with a friend, but we need to come up with the move in costs as soon as possible. The listings we find often close out fast– there isn't much available housing in this area, so we need to act fast. Anything helps. If you cannot make the minimum, please contact us for alternative methods.
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