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I need some advice on how to help out a friend who is going through hell with a crazy landlord. This landlord has literally done everything wrong in terms of doing an eviction. Friend admits to falling behind on rent, but the things happening to her are RIDICULOUS and ILLEGAL:
-Landlord has failed to fix furnace after being notified that it wasn't working properly. The apartment was rarely above 60 degrees this past winter. Mind you, this was a freakishly cold winter in Chicago this past year
-Landlord shut off her hot water
-Landlord failed to maintain the apartment, allowing it to flood nearly a dozen times due to frozen pipes (see above two issues)
-Landlord has performed two illegal lockouts in the past 3 months.
-THE KICKER: the landlord has performed yet ANOTHER illegal lockout this past weekend, threw out all of her belongings, and STOLE her pets from the home and is refusing to say where they are!!
Attempts to get the police to do anything have falling flat. The police actually told her to just get her stuff off the property (again, the property she was illegally evicted from). Right now she has documented everything and is trying to get a lawyer, but as of now, she's staying w/ me on my couch b/c she can't get back into her house. She's freaking out over her pets and her stuff. I'm helping her out best I can but anyone have any advice to give.
Look, I'm not excusing bad LL behavior, but your friend has similar bad behavior. You should NEVER expect great LL services when you do not pay rent.
things happen that is not a tenets fault ex. illness in many states this ll would be in jail. the ll broke the law and should be aressted for theft. of the pets
all terrible but lets get back to basics. you say you want to rent a nice place but you dont want to pay for it.
now what were you saying about insanity?
no a ll must go to court to put some one out. it is that simple to wrongs do not make a right.. not defending ot paying rent. but saying the land lord is also in the wrong if no more so.
It's also ILLEGAL to live somewhere and not pay rent.
Yup you're right. But when you sign up as a ll you have to follow this pesky thing called the law. I'm not excusing the behavior because the tenant sounds as crazy as the LL. But as the LL you better follow the laws and evict someone correctly or GTFO of the LL business.
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