Thursday, March 12, 2009

unfair

my husband and I moved in to a three bedroom apartment with our two children and our newborn 2 month old baby.  It was a beautiful apartment but it came with a price other than the rent. we chose this apartment not knowing the nabior below us worked graveyards and slept durning the day, well offcourse 2 weeks after we moved in we recieved a complaint against us for our children being to loud.  now our children were toddlers Im sure you could imagine how this started off as perfect situation.  The land lord had asked us to move into another apartment and we kindly agreed to move from one thrird story appartment across the street to another third story appartment. Yes real generous on our part to agree to this.  But to our surprise after we agreed to this the land lord had offered the appartment to another couple two days after we decided to move into this other apartment.  They had no other appartment to offer us and as the months went on the landlord finally decided to try and evict us.  the owners of the property came over to our home telling us we need to move we kindly declined and told them unless they let us out of our lease in witch we will be requiring this agreement in writing we will not be leaving any time soon.  below are a few things we have had to deal with while living there.

1. Harrasment
the owners of the property kept telling us to move with out a notice to vacate, calling social services on us claiming our child fell three storys down, calling a community college on us about getting a daycare license at this time I was watching my nephew, colorado law dose not require me to have a daycare license if I am related to the child.
2. Invasion of privacy
on three seperate occasions the live in land lord entered our appartment first incident was two days after we moved in he said he was there to turn off the power so he dose not get billed for it. The eletric company informed us he could have just sent us the bill.  The other incident with out notice I walked into my front room to see two men standing there the landlord informed me that there was a leak downstairs and that he needed to take a look in the bathroom to see if it was coming from my apartment.  And last while the owners were trying to find a way to leagally evicted us the older lady walked into our apartment exclaiming she needed to take pictures of the bathroom for insurance reasons insteasd she started walking around the apartment taking pictures. 
3. discrimination
I am not going to say the deckers the owners of this property do not like kids but Im am sure they did not like our kids it was more of a favortism the lady below us had senority she had lived there for years and with our three kids who were toddlers at the time and her who worked graveyards and slept durning the day Im sure it was time that somebody had to go and it was us.  you can imagine that children are not quiet all the time and during the day they are usually most active no matter what I did to keep them quiet it was just not enough to keep the old lady who lived downstairs mouth shut

Lovely apartment bad management Two of my family members wanted to live there I did not hesitate to tell them my expirince Im glad they made the right choice of choosing to live else where.