Landlord trying to evict us for noncompliance with…nothing.

By Lilly

We have bed bugs and our manager is being a pest about it. We gave him a 7 day notice initially and he responded the next day with a notice that he received it. So he sends this clueless guy over to inspect and he verifies that yes we have bedbugs (we had bites and a sample in our freezer). I call the manager and he is argumentative from the start. "well did they actually say you have bed bugs? Because we aren’t going to treat if he didn’t say you have them" I explain that yes he verified and he didn’t give us an exact time but said they would be here sometime between 10 am and 3 pm and we will need to be gone for about five hours. We have a dog and need to be gone for five hours. I offered several suggestions and he turned them all down. And I finally said "we will stay in a hotel then for that time (dog can’t be out for five hours in the heat) and we will deduct part of it from our rent if that is ok." He says that he can’t pay for a hotel for a few hours, only over night. what? Ok. So anyway the guy who came out was very uninformative so we called his manager. The manager of the pest control company said that they leave it up to the landlord to prepare the tenants and that he should be sending a written notice of what to do. He also gave us some additional instructions. We never got a written notice. And the apartment wasn’t ready when they got here (even though EVERYTHING we owned was packed away in plastic bags and moved out to the porch. Apparently there was more to be done. So the landlord gives us a notice the next day saying we didn’t comply with his initial instructions…..there WERE NO INITIAL instructions! If I hadn’t called the manager of the pest control company, we wouldn’t even have known to bag our things up. We never received notice from the landlord (1st attempt) on how to prepare the apartment! Yet he sends us a notice saying "failure to comply with pest control instructions for the removal of bedbugs" Can he do that? He gave us notice that if we don’t comply with his "2nd attempt" (the first notice we have received) that we would be in breach of our lease and basically be evicted. I am no idiot. He didn’t send initial instructions. And there are NO other notices on file regarding this-I asked the office person. They said all they had was the notice he gave saying he received our 7 days notice and then this "2nd attempt" there is no 1st attempt on file. We want to leave on account of HIS breach and now he is saying we are breaching. HELP! I have already had to call the health department over other issues over here and I am going insane being bitten every night. He said it is our fault and we will pay for it and is just plain giving us a hard time!

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