My Rental home has perfect washer in it Landlord does not allow laundry to be done have to use laundromat (apartment, lease)
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is is legal for a landlord who has a perfect working washer and dryer but she refuses to allow me to do my laundry at home says the cesspool will fill up,
Also, I am not allowed use to my brand of toilet paper she says I have to use a single ply like Scott toilet paper.
Is she allowed to tell me I must use her type of toilet paper & go to laundromat. I work long hours I want to use the perfectly working washer in basement but she says if I do she will give me 30 days notice to get out!!
She & her manager said in Massachusetts that cesspools must be protected. So she has legal right to not allow me to use washer.
Any advice I would appreciate. I am calling board of health Monday to ask if this is allowed, but if anyone knows my tenant rights with a month to month lease so I am scared to make this old lady & her manager mad!!
Thank you in advance,
SeekonkTribe
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is is legal for a landlord who has a perfect working washer and dryer but she refuses to allow me to do my laundry at home says the cesspool will fill up,
Also, I am not allowed use to my brand of toilet paper she says I have to use a single ply like Scott toilet paper.
Is she allowed to tell me I must use her type of toilet paper & go to laundromat. I work long hours I want to use the perfectly working washer in basement but she says if I do she will give me 30 days notice to get out!!
She & her manager said in Massachusetts that cesspools must be protected. So she has legal right to not allow me to use washer.
Any advice I would appreciate. I am calling board of health Monday to ask if this is allowed, but if anyone knows my tenant rights with a month to month lease so I am scared to make this old lady & her manager mad!!
Thank you in advance,
SeekonkTribe
Unless you signed a lease or monthly rental agreement that said you were entitled to use the washer and dryer then, no you are not so entitled. You should get issues like that clarified in writing in the lease before moving into a place.
It is not unusual at all for any house on a septic system to have to use single ply toilet paper, yes she is entitled to tell you that and could charge you for damages if you do not comply and you cause the system to become clogged.
Yes since you are month to month she can cancel your rental agreement at anytime with 30 days notice.
Move out. Give 30 days notice yourself, and move somewhere where you can use whatever toilet paper you want, and use the washer and dryer if there is one.
Sounds like you're renting a room from her, and she says you can't use her washer and dryer. That sounds legal to me. She says you should use single ply toilet paper because of her septic system. That also sounds reasonable.
So, if you don't want her to get mad, do what she says. Otherwise, move.
If on septic then she's right. Usually septic tends to use single ply. I had a place on septic and I was told to only use single ply.
As for the laundry it's her laundry. If the lease specifies no use of the laundry then you cant use it.
Go give notice and look for a different place
Yes and yes. If you don't like the arrangement you agreed to, give proper notice and move. Just be prepared to pay an early termination fee if you're on a yearly lease.
Why on earth would a LL install a washing machine and then ban the tenant from using it? Or if it came with the property, then the previous owners must have used it without problems. I've lived in houses on septic before and we used the washing machine just fine. Unless MA has different septic systems from the south, this makes no sense to me.
Why on earth would a LL install a washing machine and then ban the tenant from using it? Or if it came with the property, then the previous owners must have used it without problems. I've lived in houses on septic before and we used the washing machine just fine. Unless MA has different septic systems from the south, this makes no sense to me.
The machine is in the basement and not in the OP's living space. Same situation as the last place I rented where the LL had a washer and dryer in a shed right outside my apartment. There was nothing in the lease about any use of washing facilities but I asked anyway if I might be able to do one small load a week and the answer was no. No problem. The OP has been told that use of the washing machine is not allowed and that's that. Just because it's in the basement doesn't mean it's there for common use. And calling the Health Department over it?
Evidently the landlord is having problems as she is requiring no use of the washing machine and use of only single ply toilet paper. In fact, she says she has a cesspool, not a septic system. That's a much more maintenance intensive system.
It may have been that the washing machine was put in, she realized the volume of water and .or detergents/ bleaches caused problems and has since decided to ban its use.
Why would anyone be arguing with her over this matter? If the tenants ignore her and do as they wish, they could wind up with no plumbing and/ or or legal responsibility to repair the mess they created. That of course, depends on how the lease is written.
The tenants have two choices. Either do as the landlord says or move .
OP, give your notice and move to a place that is on the city sewer system.
You simply can not treat a cesspool like it is an unlimited resource and I can't imagine you being all cheery if you over-filled it and it backed up into the house.
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