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OP, did you ever happen to call the police on the drug dealing and drug usage, etc? That should have been your approach all along instead of trying to get the LL to do anything. Many LLs will just turn their cheek as long as they are getting paid their rent monthly. However, tickets and/or arrests will "sometimes" get them to react.
And did the people you are fighting for in this thread have a lease? If so, read it carefully to see if anything may have been breached. And did they not see any hint of this being a bad place when they looked at it before renting??
Other than the above it sounds like you have done everything you could by reporting the illegal unit(s) so all that is left is to move which it appears that they have done already.
Sounds like an awful place and so glad you have moved. I know sometimes we compromise when budget constraints kick in and that must have been your situation. It was a heavy (nonrefundable) tuition to pay for your undergraduate class in Renting 101, but you paid the tuition even though the education was an awful experience. Bet you now can qualify for advanced Renting....where there are more lessons ahead and even a higher tuition to pay.
Even drug users need a place to live. Your best plan is to make them homeless?
This place could not have looked wonderful before moving in. I suspect it was cheap and that was all that mattered. Once you get the place with cheap rent, you don't get to settle in and then demand to have it turned into safe clean middle class housing. It was cheap for a reason.
The best option is to get out and find a safer cleaner place to rent. Although I bet that will cost more money.
As for rent paid, you got a roof over your head for that rent money, so you got what you paid for.
Even drug users need a place to live. Your best plan is to make them homeless?
This place could not have looked wonderful before moving in. I suspect it was cheap and that was all that mattered. Once you get the place with cheap rent, you don't get to settle in and then demand to have it turned into safe clean middle class housing. It was cheap for a reason.
The best option is to get out and find a safer cleaner place to rent. Although I bet that will cost more money.
As for rent paid, you got a roof over your head for that rent money, so you got what you paid for.
Many markets no longer have cheap rent. "Sorry, all gone."
Um, no, paying market rent and getting substandard housing - esp with other issues - is not getting what you paid for.
What's the alternative - for those living in overpriced markets with minimal vacancy?
Move
Or
Live with it
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