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Originally Posted by Mason3000
Annie, I think you're on the right path. Stay where you're at and have the landlord get the pipes straightened out. Get the request in writing and make sure the landlord signs a copy before you pay the rent next time is a good first step. Then, not paying the rent until he actually fixes the pipes is a good follow up if he does nothing.
Then....take pics of the place top to bottom that are time stamped. Now start fixing the place up to your standards so at the end of the day you'll live in comfort since presumably you'll be there for a while. Sure you'll have to uninstall anything you fix when you want to leave but that's a long way in the future. Inevitably he'll claim the stuff you installed/fixed was his and then you'll need to produce the pictures to make that go away.
Annie, how about joining us for a drink this afternoon? My office is in the Zona so I could pick up in Gazcue on my way to Twist about 4:00pm if you're interested?
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Mason, thanks so much for the offer but tonight is opening night of the BALL GAME!!!! So I will be here practicing my shouts til I leave at 6 30 to be at the gate at 7 to get great seats...
does anyone have a good translation of Take me out to the ballgame?
and of course, that is where you should ALL be at 7!!!!
BEST fireworks of the season.... Not to mention MAJOR league baseball at 200 pesos a pop!! try that price at Yankee Stadium.
As for the pipes, the complexity of this particular condo are that the pipes in my ceiling are actually the responsibility of the person upstairs..... Since my landlady is such a "#$#%$&" and does not seem to have an ability to live peacefully with others, she has been unable to communicate with either the upstairs or downstairs neighbor.
However, since I do not have a car, and have for a year allowed the upstairs neighbor to park one of his two cars in my spot, and since I repaired the old AC which was making the noise of three trucks and dripping water into my downstairs neighbors apartment, both of them want me to stay. So the downstairs neighbor got the plumber to look at the upstairs neighbors pipes. And he came down very apologetic and said that he did not know that I had a problem but that he wanted me to stay and would fix the pipes.
Now how and when that will happen is still a mystery. But
since that time he has either been away or showering in the cuarto de servicio so I am drip free.
I think that this landlady has had a history of just having foreign tenants whom she drives out after two years. Then she can raise the rents to market value. As I said, I think that she figured she could threaten me into leaving the new fridge and stove and drive me out.
Those of you who followed my saga on the new fridge understand that I am not going ANYWHERE without that fridge. I may have it converted to a coffin.
So now it is just a question of getting the landlady to pick up her checks at my lawyers, and sign a receipt.
And, because I am an honest and honorable person, I will indeed give her regular rent increases as time goes on. Really I am the best tenant that ANYONE could ever find.
I would love to have a rain check on the drinks, though....
calmer now
