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I realized that this house is an illegal two family house cause the tenant downstairs told me personally that having 1 electric meter, 1 mailbox, two full kitchens makes it illegal. I asked my absent landlord (lives in WA) about it and he says it's legal. Few weeks later, the landlord gets a violation notice from the town about illegal housing and now the inspector is coming next week. I asked my landlord again if it's illegal and he says it is legal.
I have the officer's business card with the violation.
The landlord asked me to stay in a hotel for a few days so he can travel back here to work on some plumbing to replace the sink and stove. At the same time, he made arrangement with the inspector to look at the place. He asked me to hide my mail from the inspector and coming to this, it's obviously illegal. I looked up online that you can check the address of the house to see if it's an one, two, three family home and I found out it was one family house.
Now I told the landlord that I'm going to be moving out and my mom wants the deposit and a compensation of **** amount from the stress that the downstairs tenant gave me (dog bit me twice, dog is left outside backyard so I can't enter, exit the house, etc).
I just found out today that the landlord told the tenant downstairs to turn off the heat for me to access. I've been doing research about this and I don't know how to approach this problem. Do I call the landlord or the service department/inspector to look at this case.
I have been looking around for another apartment to live in and found a place but it may take weeks for me to get acceptance due to interview and processing.
You can call them and tell them what's going on, but be prepared to leave.
You can also just leave and demand your deposit, then if (more likely when) the LL does not pay it back, gather all of this evidence and bring them to court. We did this about a year ago.
Also, start keeping records of everything -- send letters (certified, return receipt requested), record voicemails/phone calls (NY is a 1 party notification state, so you can just record with a smartphone on a call and not say anything), etc.
Last edited by kayfouroh; 01-19-2012 at 08:05 AM..
I was planning to record our conversations but I live in NY and he lives in WA(illegal to record). Can I still record the conversations without his notice?
I was planning to record our conversations but I live in NY and he lives in WA(illegal to record). Can I still record the conversations without his notice?
if you want to get around that, you can just ignore all the calls (so they go to voicemail, and you can keep them), and use something like SlyDial to call directly to his voicemail (play phone tag so you get to record his messages)
Can I get more inputs about this problem. Hot water does not work now. Tenant downstairs is probably working with the landlord. Even though he knows the house is illegal.
Can I get more inputs about this problem. Hot water does not work now. Tenant downstairs is probably working with the landlord. Even though he knows the house is illegal.
What other input do you want? I went through the same thing, the house is uninhabitable. It is illegal for him to force you to live there. Learn your rights.
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