I'm trying to keep it together, but it's really hard for me. See, I'm living in a really awful situation. The place I'm at should be condemned, really. It has a severe bed bug and roach infestation. They're everywhere - in the fridge, the microwave, electronics, etc. They've ruined appliances. They're driving me insane. The bed bugs have ruined my skin, with all the scratching, itching, cuts, welts, etc. from the bites. Sometimes they even go in my ear when I'm asleep. (I sleep on a filthy bloodstained mattress and comforter, that's on the floor.) There's also mice, but they're the lesser of the pest problem right now.
The plumbing is all screwed up. Only hot water goes to the second floor so the toilet is full of hot water. The showerhead doesn't work and the bathtub is filthy, so I haven't been able to take a shower since I've moved in. (I wash myself the best I can at the kitchen sink.)The toilet is all ****ed up and is close to completely breaking.
There's a huge hole in the kitchen ceiling where they opened it up last year to get to the water lines. That hole hasn't been closed.
The floor is ruined. It was messed up before my mom and I came here. The bathroom floor and the kitchen floor needs to be completely replaced.
Many of the windows are broken. There's no insulation on the doors, so when it's cold, it's freezing.
I don't have a washer or dryer so I have to hand wash everything, which really just results in a huge pile of dirty clothes because I can't wash all of those in the same session.
The backyard is a huge mess because of the people who used to live next door. There's trash strewn all over the place, bottles and cans, broken furniture, etc. from when the slumlord who owns this place pays random idiots under the table to do crappy patch up jobs and throw the previous tenant's stuff they left behind out. They literally just throw the furniture out into the backyard and it's left out there until the garbagemen decide to get rid of it or a neighbor complains.
I don't have a lease and I'm not paying rent, since the owner never fixed this place like he was supposed to. My mom and I were tricked into moving in here because we were being evicted from another place and the crooked property manager there offered us this place. It sounded nice and didn't seem all that bad when he showed it to us. We knew it needed some work, and he said he would fix all of it. But he didn't. He lied to us.
When we moved in, there was no heat. This was in late November of 2014. It was literally freezing in this place. We had to hole up in one of the bedrooms with two space heaters, so that we wouldn't freeze to death. The tank of the toilet, when we had first moved in, had busted in half from the water freezing. So we had no flushing toilet. (I'm not going to say what we did with the waste.) The pipes had all busted from freezing, too. (I also lost my pet fish because they died of temperature shock while we waited for the damn space heaters to warm up; my cat also ran away during the moving, he was smart, in retrospect.)
To top it all off, my mom passed away from an aggressive cancer in January. I have no friends or family to help me here. So I am all alone in this. I suffer from severe depression that is often suicidal. I am unemployed and my disability claim was rejected. This is definitely the lowest period of my life, and that's really saying something. I have a little bit of money, but that's not going to last long, so I need to get a job, which I plan to, somehow. I even have to pay for the water, and that bill is almost $300.
I have a case worker but, to be honest, she's not all that much help. She mostly just connects me to some resources, usually when I ask for them or bring up suggestions. I don't think she or anyone really realizes the hellish living situation I'm in.
I thought that maybe I could work something out with the owner of this dump. Like maybe fix this place up. But I don't know. I can't take it anymore. I might just move. But before I can move, I'm going to have to get an exterminator, which is another thing I know nothing about. It's either that, or just abandon all of my belongings and start over, because the bug infestations are very severe. I also have a Golden Retriever dog and most of the apartments aren't going to allow that. So I'm going to have to get him certified as an Emotional Support Animal before I move.
I don't really know what to do. I really want to report him and I want him to get into legal trouble for all the crooked **** he's doing. It's like living in a torture chamber. But if I do that, I might just be put out on the street, since I have nowhere to go at the moment. (Being out on the street might be better than this, actually. Lol.)
Does anyone have any advice? If you're going to be judgmental towards me - stuff it, because that's the last thing I need right now. I'm looking for advice.
The plumbing is all screwed up. Only hot water goes to the second floor so the toilet is full of hot water. The showerhead doesn't work and the bathtub is filthy, so I haven't been able to take a shower since I've moved in. (I wash myself the best I can at the kitchen sink.)The toilet is all ****ed up and is close to completely breaking.
There's a huge hole in the kitchen ceiling where they opened it up last year to get to the water lines. That hole hasn't been closed.
The floor is ruined. It was messed up before my mom and I came here. The bathroom floor and the kitchen floor needs to be completely replaced.
Many of the windows are broken. There's no insulation on the doors, so when it's cold, it's freezing.
I don't have a washer or dryer so I have to hand wash everything, which really just results in a huge pile of dirty clothes because I can't wash all of those in the same session.
The backyard is a huge mess because of the people who used to live next door. There's trash strewn all over the place, bottles and cans, broken furniture, etc. from when the slumlord who owns this place pays random idiots under the table to do crappy patch up jobs and throw the previous tenant's stuff they left behind out. They literally just throw the furniture out into the backyard and it's left out there until the garbagemen decide to get rid of it or a neighbor complains.
I don't have a lease and I'm not paying rent, since the owner never fixed this place like he was supposed to. My mom and I were tricked into moving in here because we were being evicted from another place and the crooked property manager there offered us this place. It sounded nice and didn't seem all that bad when he showed it to us. We knew it needed some work, and he said he would fix all of it. But he didn't. He lied to us.
When we moved in, there was no heat. This was in late November of 2014. It was literally freezing in this place. We had to hole up in one of the bedrooms with two space heaters, so that we wouldn't freeze to death. The tank of the toilet, when we had first moved in, had busted in half from the water freezing. So we had no flushing toilet. (I'm not going to say what we did with the waste.) The pipes had all busted from freezing, too. (I also lost my pet fish because they died of temperature shock while we waited for the damn space heaters to warm up; my cat also ran away during the moving, he was smart, in retrospect.)
To top it all off, my mom passed away from an aggressive cancer in January. I have no friends or family to help me here. So I am all alone in this. I suffer from severe depression that is often suicidal. I am unemployed and my disability claim was rejected. This is definitely the lowest period of my life, and that's really saying something. I have a little bit of money, but that's not going to last long, so I need to get a job, which I plan to, somehow. I even have to pay for the water, and that bill is almost $300.
I have a case worker but, to be honest, she's not all that much help. She mostly just connects me to some resources, usually when I ask for them or bring up suggestions. I don't think she or anyone really realizes the hellish living situation I'm in.
I thought that maybe I could work something out with the owner of this dump. Like maybe fix this place up. But I don't know. I can't take it anymore. I might just move. But before I can move, I'm going to have to get an exterminator, which is another thing I know nothing about. It's either that, or just abandon all of my belongings and start over, because the bug infestations are very severe. I also have a Golden Retriever dog and most of the apartments aren't going to allow that. So I'm going to have to get him certified as an Emotional Support Animal before I move.
I don't really know what to do. I really want to report him and I want him to get into legal trouble for all the crooked **** he's doing. It's like living in a torture chamber. But if I do that, I might just be put out on the street, since I have nowhere to go at the moment. (Being out on the street might be better than this, actually. Lol.)
Does anyone have any advice? If you're going to be judgmental towards me - stuff it, because that's the last thing I need right now. I'm looking for advice.
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