JayCee wrote:KerryB wrote:Thank you that's great advise....
Ok here's some advise for you.
Learn to engage your brain before signing legally binding contracts and then bitching about it on the internet.
Good enough?
This is rather mean. I get that the OP is a good guy who signed a lease in good faith, and has gone the extra mile in trying to get things resolved, understanding that he has a landlord many miles away.
Instead, the OP has been pissed upon. My strategy is for him to piss back, only let the landlord think that he is being showered with warm tea water, until such a time as he becomes a true dick, at which time, our OP takes good aim and pisses right down his throat.
JayCee, I'd never hire you as a project manager. All problems have conflicts that require finding the middle ground. The middle ground is found through a combination of good will, carrots, and sticks.
So far, OP has been good guy, living with a crap landlord. OP takes an action, which in my opinion was not the correct one, but landlord acts in character... a scheisskopf!
OP, in order to effect a solution that does not escalate the issues, lays out the concerns and needs, provides a solution, and lays out the costs. All bear the costs... landlord must fix, OP leads the way. Emphasize with landlord that this is the best way out, all other alternatives have much worse consequence, including expense.
If landlord proves to be a shit, time to piss down his throat. Be prepared to file court claims for health, lack of livability, whatever. Doesn't really matter, just that he will have to respond or face Singapore gahmen consequences. He needs to understand consequences.
OP, friendly as always, notes that he will leave if evicted, but place is so screwed up it will take a lot of money to fix and he will be without rent otherwise.
The point? Force the conversation to what the OP wants.
And you, JayCee? What did you contribute? Nothing except derogatory comments which make you, not the OP, look small.
Best.
