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Moved in into a new place, not maintained too good but the only one we could reasonably afford for now. Would you say 6 weeks is a reasonable time for landlord to start some of the non-urgent repairs? PM were notified via email and responded to it by promising to fix. Some of the repairs are required by the law in FL (like no working fan and no window in bathroom, non-operating rusted dishwasher the use of which is included in the lease), others we would like to be done to make our life easier (replacing filter in their old fridge; extremely loud rattling stove top fan; bathtub trip lever drain repair; faulty switch in the kitchen). Do these repair requests seem reasonable? The PM has not done anything yet. I guess we will send a certified letter next, but what then? To me, none of these repairs are serious enough to warrant paying to court instead of landlords until they fix the place.
Moved in into a new place, not maintained too good but the only one we could reasonably afford for now. Would you say 6 weeks is a reasonable time for landlord to start some of the non-urgent repairs? PM were notified via email and responded to it by promising to fix. Some of the repairs are required by the law in FL (like no working fan and no window in bathroom, non-operating rusted dishwasher the use of which is included in the lease), others we would like to be done to make our life easier (replacing filter in their old fridge; extremely loud rattling stove top fan; bathtub drain repair; faulty switch in the kitchen). Do these repair requests seem reasonable? The PM has not done anything yet. I guess we will send a certified letter next, but what then? To me, none of these repairs are serious enough to warrant paying to court instead of landlords until they fix the place.
ideally 24-48 hours.
But in a place like yours, one week would be reasonable - two weeks THE MOST.
If more than two weeks it would be like if parts need to be ordered or some other circumstance, but only the exception.
6 weeks is way too long, but I too have lived in a crap apartment, and they were like that too, sometimes took 2 months. I don't agree with that long, but that's why I say 1-2 weeks on average. if your building does not have handymen/maintenance guys on site, this is what happens.
But in a place like yours, one week would be reasonable - two weeks THE MOST.
If more than two weeks it would be like if parts need to be ordered or some other circumstance, but only the exception.
6 weeks is way too long, but I too have lived in a crap apartment, and they were like that too, sometimes took 2 months. I don't agree with that long, but that's why I say 1-2 weeks on average. if your building does not have handymen/maintenance guys on site, this is what happens.
Another crap apartment dweller and even with certified letter it took a month to get things fixed. That said there was not a handyman on site.
I hate that!!!! that is what happens, you are put on their list of priorities.
OK lets say that whoever their handyman is, has 40 jobs, its only one person, so they put you down at the bottom of the list. so it naturally takes time.
HOWEVER, this is why i will never rent an apartment that does not have 24 hour maintenance, been there done that, i had to wait 2 months to get my tub rodded out because of this same excuse. then they told me i was a complainer when i followed up each week to see what happened. always got some b.s. excuse.
so it happens.
what to do? not sure what your city laws are, but check those out, if it says 24-48 hours, then they must obey that rule. no excuse.
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