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By Susan

I moved into this house because my son was not allowed to stay in the apartments that I was living in because he had a felony.

So therefore I moved into this house. The landlord is an old man who just does not listen to reason. the agreement was that he would let me movi into the house with no deposit and no first months rent if I cleaned the house up. The tenants before me were very nasty and unclean. I also offered to let my fiance’ do all the repairs so the landlord would not have to pay for anything but he brought one of his other tenants in to do repairs and spent all that money. The man that the landlord brought in here to do the repairs brought his little 2 year old and his wife in the house while he did his repairs and the little boy pulled the hose out of one of the tiolets and flooded the carpet in the bedroom that the bathroom was in and so the carpet had to be removed. The landlord was going to put that same rug back in the room after it dried and was smelly and mildewy. I told the landlord that was not sanitary. he got angry and did not put one in there. while I was in the house there are carpet tacks sticking out of the floor and so I ended up stepping on those and had to take a tetnus shot and three more antibiotic shots as well. My foot because of the rust from the nails, has caused a lot of damage to my foot. I am still seeing the doctor at the VA for that foot. I have an 8 year old grand daughter who I am raising and she sleeps in that room. I have to put my own kind of padding in that room like thick blankets and other stuff to keep her from getting stuck as well. Now the landlord wahts to put me out because of no rent. I refuse to pay him any rent until he puts carpet in that room. The carpet was fine before that man’s little 2 year old went in there aand made it a disaster. This landlord keep saying, "well it just did not work out Susan, i’m gonna have to let you go. Isn’t there something that can be done about this because he is putting me out because he failed to do his job and put the carpet in and I refuse to pay him rent!!!

WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT THIS? Then there is other things wrong with this house as well so if I could get the helth department to come and look at this then it would be a lot better.

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