maryandrews22
New Member
We rented an apartment in Herndon, Virginia in August 2008. Soon after we moved
in, we realized the bathroom toilet would not flash, it was terrible. Of course we
usually found out *after* the fact, and usually on weekends, so we could not
call maintenance, actually we could and we did, we had to wait for someone for
hours to days, thank goodness the local mcdonalds people were friendly, as well
as my husbands office was close. We have a 4 yr old, he was 3 then, but changing
him then was not easy, to say the least. In an 11 month period we stayed there,
this happened at least a dozen times, they usually came with that snake thing,
and unplugged it, but when leaving, this thing would drip all over the carpet,
no way I would let my baby down after that.
Right when we moved in, the apartment next door had called the health dept,
who came and filed two violations for cockroach infestation and gave them 30 days
to fix them, which they showed some papers and got away, although the problem
existed. Actually it got bigger, we have many many pictures with german cockroaches
to our apartment. We sprayed, and sprayed, we were afraid for the little one, their
exterminator came too, all to no avail. The problem kept till the day we left.
Around Nov 2008, we were being bitten by something during night time, we thought
it was cockroaches. We called the exterminators, they looked around with small
flashlights, they found ... bedbugs. We were terrified, the exterminators came and
sprayed and all that, it never stopped. We have pictures for dozen of bed bugs
right before my husband was flashing then in the kitchen drain. Our baby was so
bitten we took him to the doctor, who gave us a diagnosis that these were insect
bites.
A month before our lease expired, we moved to a different place we are doing fine
here, although the first week or so we found some live cockroaches we had
brought over, but soon enough this stopped and we are insects free since then.
The old apartment co. asked us to pay one month of rent, claiming we had to give
them 2 month notice, while we only gave them 30 day notice.
Our point is we have sufferred in that place and we think we should be refunded all
rent we paid for that place. Is our claim reasonable?
Thanks,
MaryAndrews22 at gmail.com
since this is my first time here, if someone replies, could you please cc me?
in, we realized the bathroom toilet would not flash, it was terrible. Of course we
usually found out *after* the fact, and usually on weekends, so we could not
call maintenance, actually we could and we did, we had to wait for someone for
hours to days, thank goodness the local mcdonalds people were friendly, as well
as my husbands office was close. We have a 4 yr old, he was 3 then, but changing
him then was not easy, to say the least. In an 11 month period we stayed there,
this happened at least a dozen times, they usually came with that snake thing,
and unplugged it, but when leaving, this thing would drip all over the carpet,
no way I would let my baby down after that.
Right when we moved in, the apartment next door had called the health dept,
who came and filed two violations for cockroach infestation and gave them 30 days
to fix them, which they showed some papers and got away, although the problem
existed. Actually it got bigger, we have many many pictures with german cockroaches
to our apartment. We sprayed, and sprayed, we were afraid for the little one, their
exterminator came too, all to no avail. The problem kept till the day we left.
Around Nov 2008, we were being bitten by something during night time, we thought
it was cockroaches. We called the exterminators, they looked around with small
flashlights, they found ... bedbugs. We were terrified, the exterminators came and
sprayed and all that, it never stopped. We have pictures for dozen of bed bugs
right before my husband was flashing then in the kitchen drain. Our baby was so
bitten we took him to the doctor, who gave us a diagnosis that these were insect
bites.
A month before our lease expired, we moved to a different place we are doing fine
here, although the first week or so we found some live cockroaches we had
brought over, but soon enough this stopped and we are insects free since then.
The old apartment co. asked us to pay one month of rent, claiming we had to give
them 2 month notice, while we only gave them 30 day notice.
Our point is we have sufferred in that place and we think we should be refunded all
rent we paid for that place. Is our claim reasonable?
Thanks,
MaryAndrews22 at gmail.com
since this is my first time here, if someone replies, could you please cc me?
