Now if you are free would you want the court to decide your life, take it over and excuse me, contaminate the hell out of it as much as they possibly could?
Hell no!
The clerk said well if I were you I'd go file those papers right now. Uh uh.
I called up the ABA and got a lawyer consultation to cover a letter and the supreme court brief I've written.
The subject: This coop management company has been harassing me for 4 months because I asked them about a neighbor's claim that there were bed bugs in the apartment. They denied it and tried to turn it on me by asking "Do you have bed bugs?"
Now I am being bitten raw every night no matter what I do.
They circumvented the law by slowly taking action, first the beagle that found bed bugs at the edge of my leather sofa bed, then the notice several weeks later that bed bugs were found in my unit and the cost was going to be about $500 and triple in time and effort.
But back up I said, 4 months ago I asked you to repair the cracks in the ceilings, the walls and the floor and that is where these bugs are coming in. You must do that first, it says so in the New York Bed Bug handout.
Secondly I have lung and pulmonary disease and your pamphlet states that people with asthmatic conditions must be away for 48 hours after the fumigation; you need to put me in another apartment.
Thirdly, my leather sofa bed is infested, and its not a mattress you can encase. In all my research I have not found one single person who successfully rid bed bugs from a couch. The time and trouble of such an attempt was vastly more than the $500 my couch will cost; you need to throw out my couch and replace it.
I never to this date got an answer to those three valid points.
Instead the landlord made an appointment for the fumigation and I was home. They never showed. Then five days later I got a letter stating that if I did not provide them entry they were going to drill holes in the door and charge me. I wrote back if you drill holes then you will charge yourself because I have the set of keys your super gave me. I did not change your locks.
They replied to me in yet another five days; your failure to provide entry to the apartment is a breach of the lease. I wrote back there has been no failure and I was here.
They wrote back a few days later that I was not here.
Ok I have pictures of this apartment several times throughout the day and even at the time they were to arrive, so duh. I asked the clerk and she told me that was a trivial question and the judge would decide. Yeah that is our part of departure.
Then about three days later they say the fumigators will be at the apartment the next day. They don't show so I write two emails to the landlord stating no show for the second time and I have a deposition at 11am.
No answer.
So finally, today, and get this, because its a winner, this guy shouts at my door EPA, Environmental Department. Now that is right up there with those New York City detectives (see "Undoubtedly Women Are Better Marketers Than Men [but are they better detectives?]"). That was such a lie. He has this big magnifying glass. I tell him I taped the bugs as they came down the wall from the ceiling. Exhibit A is on the wall. I produced Exhibit B a bag of taped bugs I pulled off. I said would you like to see Exhibit C pictures of my bit off behind? He says no, he is not a doctor.
YadaYada Another coop board clowns around and you know I'm going to bust them up sooner or later.
1. We won't need a building inspector, the landlord sent a flyer stating there was an infestation, there was a beagle visit and the faux EPA was here.
2. One of the flyers states that this infestation is different than the one then 3 months ago (aha!)
3. The landlord's second harassment is clear and vivid in his emails.
4. It is clear that they simply ignored me (though their clerk acknowledged the email); their emails reveal that they were aware of a previous correspondence.
Like I said folks don't rent in a coop board, don't buy into one either. In these last two coops I have rented in the shareholders were continually unhappy. Apparently the Chief wore no clothes.
