I live in a two family house. The tenants that live downstairs have lived in the house for over 20 years. The landlord seems to be in "good with them". I signed my lease back in June and discovered around September that they were doing drugs in our shared section of the basement. I just let it be, hoping it would stop (i don't like confrontation), but I have two small children and I could smell the weed! So I finally confronted the son and he said he didn't know anything. A month or so later I was walking downstairs to get lawn chairs for my daughter's soccer game and walked through a huge cloud of smoke (weed) and heard their house door slam. I got my stuff and starting walking out when the husband agressively confronted me telling me it was no big deal but that I was NEVER to talk to his kids (20+ years old) about anything that happens in this house and if I have a problem to talk to him. He exchanged some words and these people have been jerks to us every since. Complaining to our landlord about EVERYTHING.
I'd had enough and told the landlord about the drugs. He supposedly confronted them downstairs and they insisted NO ONE smokes in the house and gave us all a letter that no one is to smoke in the house. Well they continue to smoke cigarettes IN THE HOUSE and do drugs cause I can smell it!
I have been asked to park closer to bushes so the tenents can drive down the middle of our driveway, I've been asked to take my 2 year old out of the house when he wakes up so the people downstairs aren't woken up (please, like I let him run around crazy at 6am!), I have been told that 7am is ok because the tenant downstairs thinks it is ok to play his music louder than my tv. I have been told that there is a leak in the wall and I must be leaving my children unattended in the tub and they're splashing too much water (after several attemps, it was a leak in the pipe in the wall like I originally suggested!!).
Now we haven't been perfect with paying our rent, we're struggling in this economy like every other person. But enough is enough. I've asked several times to be let out of my lease but Feb 14 was the straw! The tenants downstairs dumped ashes from a cigarette of some kind all over TWO of my car seats that I was storing in the basement. The landlord kept begging me to stay telling me they're buying a house and moving, can I just deal with it until they move and then I can have their place until. The landlord will NOT do anything about them. These people are above all of his rules and it's a one way street.
I told him we were leaving and I was DONE! I told him we would be out on March 30th.
Well then I found out I'm getting laid off. I'm caught in a 50/50 but my landlord won't allow us to break our lease.
Do I have ANY rights as far as the shenanigans are going??
I'd had enough and told the landlord about the drugs. He supposedly confronted them downstairs and they insisted NO ONE smokes in the house and gave us all a letter that no one is to smoke in the house. Well they continue to smoke cigarettes IN THE HOUSE and do drugs cause I can smell it!
I have been asked to park closer to bushes so the tenents can drive down the middle of our driveway, I've been asked to take my 2 year old out of the house when he wakes up so the people downstairs aren't woken up (please, like I let him run around crazy at 6am!), I have been told that 7am is ok because the tenant downstairs thinks it is ok to play his music louder than my tv. I have been told that there is a leak in the wall and I must be leaving my children unattended in the tub and they're splashing too much water (after several attemps, it was a leak in the pipe in the wall like I originally suggested!!).
Now we haven't been perfect with paying our rent, we're struggling in this economy like every other person. But enough is enough. I've asked several times to be let out of my lease but Feb 14 was the straw! The tenants downstairs dumped ashes from a cigarette of some kind all over TWO of my car seats that I was storing in the basement. The landlord kept begging me to stay telling me they're buying a house and moving, can I just deal with it until they move and then I can have their place until. The landlord will NOT do anything about them. These people are above all of his rules and it's a one way street.
I told him we were leaving and I was DONE! I told him we would be out on March 30th.
Well then I found out I'm getting laid off. I'm caught in a 50/50 but my landlord won't allow us to break our lease.
Do I have ANY rights as far as the shenanigans are going??
