Filing Complaint Against Landlord

Kirstin I had same kind of landlord problem.   I too debated whether to file a complaint against my landlord.  Eventually after a week or so, I got frustrated and filed a complaint.
My only regret was that I didn’t file one earlier.  Ever since my complaint my landlord has been very responsive to me.  There’s no question, you need to file!

Hey Tony!  Great advice!!  You always give short but precise answers, very well said.

Thanks Scott… I appreciate your compliment– just doing my part to help society,

The answer is simple:
Should I file a complaint if my landlord has been fair?  No!

Should I file a complaint if my landlord has NOT been fair?  YES!!
You will have to decide, you know what I think.

I done the official complante thing.  It werked good for me.

If you don’t stand up for yourself, who will?  I think its clear what you need to do.  Now go file your complaint.  Don’t forget to request that the landlord reimburse you for RPA Filing Fees.  Heres the link: http://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/complaint_center.php

You should probably check the laws in your state before you follow my advice, but this is what I did once in a very similar situation.
First, send him a formal letter stating that you need the repairs made on your apartment within 30 days or you will have the repair done and paid for by yourself and deduct the cost from rent. Send him another similar notice before the 30 days are up (say, a week before.). Sign and date both letters and make copies.
If he doesn’t have the window fixed, pay for it to be fixed yourself and deduct the cost from rent.
It may sound stupid and petty to you to be irritated about a piece of plywood screwed over the broken window, but if it were me I’d be extremely irritated! You are paying for heating/cooling and it’s probably leaking out around the wood, not to mention that it’s a safety hazard and pests (such as bugs and spiders) may be getting in!

Oh, baby! File a complaint and enjoy the results. We did this in Anchorage and the creepy, low-life landlord has to follow the laws now. Thank God for laws.

My landlord is constantly making excuses not to fix things. She threatens to evict us if we don’t pay, but we have numerous problems to the point where the village needed to come out.

Hi all,

Here in Iowa City, my landlords office was closed on Saturday, the first day of October, 2011 so I could not pay the rent on time! Now, I will be charged a $20 late fee on Monday the 3rd of October. Is this ethical?, and what can I do about it?

Thanks!

I know that in MN if you give your landlord a written notice to repair the window and if he doesn’t in a timely manner that you can go down to your local county courthouse, file a complaint and give the courts your rent, then the court will pay the landlord the rent once the repairs are made. I believe your landlord would become little more motivated once he receives a letter from the courthouse instead of a rent check.

I’m reporting my landlord because at the time of signing the lease the landlord & I agreed that since my husband is deployed for an entire year & just incase he comes back home sooner than a yr can we break the lease once we show her a copy of Orders & now that time has approached like now she’s going against her word and tryna make us pay rent for the remaining of the lease! Here’s some things others should know about this woman & her husband they both are bad at assisting their tenants with their requests about the property, she’s REALLY bad at returning phone calls & responding to msgs from her tenants! For example, I called her at the beginning the month & reported that the trees were hanging low on the front deck & like a little over a month from that day forward I informed her that we were moving, she then sends her husband out to tend to my request I reported to her a little over a month ago. Somebody should do something with this woman & husband cause I’m not leaving this situation alone because it’s wrong!

Ok but what if I’m needing a hole in my bathroom fixed and he doesn’t want to spend the money to fix it. That what he told me and I did everything he asked me to fix and he still hasn’t come to even look at the problem.

Just curious…I have lived in my apartment for a year and a half now on a one year lease and month to month after. The month to month rate was verbally communicated and now he rescinded his offer and gave us 2 days to decide if we want another year lease. Obviously I am frustrated but do I have any legal right to be? In our contract it doesn’t specify any terms for ending month to month options.