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Do not be onsite super - not your job. Also, you can look up if the landlord is listed as a deadbeat landlord. The city is now creating lists - google that as well. I saw a report on this in the news. This way you can understand what you are dealing with and you can document everything which you should be doing - dates, timing, emails, documents. Also, google management company on yelp. Also helps to know what others are saying about them.
Threaten you will stop paying rent. And follow through with it for one month. There are legal clinics in the city who give advice as well. Just google it. I once had to withhold my rent bc they weren’t fixing an elevator - they served me papers and I made them withdraw them (which they did).
Earplugs.
met with silence or one-line “I will address it”s with no action
Things I’ve considered:
1) E-mailing his boss, but I don’t any contact information (have even tried looking the small management company up on LinkedIn to no avail)
2) filing complaints with the city. I feel like this would only make him try to force us out through rent increases and intentionally ignoring maintenance issues
3) moving away. This apartment’s location and price are perfect, and my wife loves it. I am confident that it is one of the best apartments in the city if not for the lazy bum who is supposed to maintain the place.
4) Offering to be the on-site super. This is looking to be the most likely option. I’m pretty handy and can fix toilets, change lightbulbs, etc I get the feeling that he’s not interested in employing me (I would be the only non-Hasidic employee)
Is it your radiator?
No, currently it’s an exhaust fan in the unoccupied apartment below us. Previously, it was a running toilet in the apartment next to us, etc
Currently using those to mitigate, but I’m hoping the bowl has some long-term strategies rather than tactics
Then they fixed the elevator
Thanks @MD1 that’s helpful
Try 311?
It is illegal to just withhold rent, FYI.
You must give 30 days written notice to put rent in escrow, I believe. But if you just withhold rent they can terminate your lease for breach of contract.