r***y
发帖数: 30 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 Living 讨论区 】
发信人: ready (Jurassic Park), 信区: Living
标 题: 房客借口Hurricane Sandy不付房租
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Dec 17 01:31:17 2012, 美东)
房东真不好当。十二月份房租一号就应该付了，结果房客发信说sandy损坏了电梯 （
building共五层，我的房子在五楼），lobby进水了还没修复等等，十二月份房租到现
在还没付。后来我给了几封email update, condo association 也修复了电梯，lobby
的装修还在进行。今天写信要房租，她又说什么nconveniences endured之类的只肯付
一半多点。我还没回信，想先等他明天把一半的房租付了再说。打算写i will give
you an option to terminate the lease early with 30 day notice. If you decide
to stay and rent is not paid in full by noon Tuesday December 18th, a
formal eviction process will begin.大家看看可行吗？支支招吧，为这件事失眠了
都。
下面是她的邮件，非常不客气，楼里住户几乎都有孩子，也没像她这样抱怨一大堆，连
停电冰箱里的食物坏了也要怪房东。
It has now been 4 weeks (28 days) since Hurricane Sandy hit and severely
damaged our building. We have yet to hear a single word from you about
concern for our safety/well-being, conditions of the apartment, impact to
the building, and plans to conduct repairs to restore conditions to normal.
Your behavior and lack of communication is extremely irresponsible and
absolutely unacceptable to us.
I'm sure you have learned by now from the other owners in the building that
among other issues, major damages include:
There was no power in the building for 7 days
The elevator has not been functional for 4 weeks now
Serious flooding on the first floor required the carpets to be ripped
out and has left an unpleasant odor
Several lights in the stairways are non functional, in addition to most
of the outlets on the first floor
As you are well aware, we have two very young children. Nikhil is 3.5 years
old and Namya is 14 months. The specific impact to our family as a result
of all of these damages include:
During the time the power was out, this apartment was uninhabitable for
a period of 6 days. We had to evacuate the building on Day 3 with the
children and walk through 2 feet of sewage water for 10+ blocks to get to
dry land
For 4 WEEKS now, we have had to walk up and down 5 flights of stairs.
This is something that is challenging for adults, let alone a 3 year old
child (which he has had to do EVERYDAY due to school). And carrying the
baby up and down so many stairs multiple times a day is both unsafe and
exhausting. Don't even get me started about carrying a double stroller (in
addition to normal grocery shopping) down 5 flights of stairs with kids in
tow
Our car was destroyed due to the excessive flooding in the garage; the
garage remains with issues, including challenges to the auto-open garage
door, and the lights in the garage
The odor in the hallways and main areas due to all the sewage water
entering the building had been both unsafe and unpleasant for young children
, and the main hallway remains without carpet
We had lost an entire refrigerator and freezer full of food due to the
lack of power
All of these inconveniences have been extremely costly both financially and
emotionally. The building in its current condition is materially different
than what we signed an agreement for. What we agreed to pay rent for was a
high-end elevator building. What we have been residing in the for the past
month is a mediocre 5th floor walk up.
We have been nothing but exemplary tenants of your unit and have always paid
our rent in advance of the due date. However, as a result of these
excessive inconveniences we have endured coupled with your irresponsibility
as a landlord, we will be withholding rent until the above problems are
rectified.
We look forward to hearing about your plans to reconcile these conditions. | m******l
发帖数: 298 | 2 说实话，感觉给一半房租也还行了。毕竟天灾无情，房东也不差这半月房租吧。 | j***k
发帖数: 2719 | | N**8
发帖数: 578 | 4 天灾无情啊!! 银行能不能也减半个月房供啊! 占了便宜习惯就成自然.
【在 m******l 的大作中提到】
: 说实话，感觉给一半房租也还行了。毕竟天灾无情，房东也不差这半月房租吧。
| m*******y
发帖数: 14292 | | k******9
发帖数: 878 | 6 很显然房客是很鸡歪的人，但是他们的确也是有正当理由，如果同意付半月多的房租，
我觉得就算了。以他写的信看，基本上已经不怕准备和你打官司了，理由写得充充分分
，如果上庭的话，楼主可能整个12月的房租都未必拿到。至于楼主准备写信给房客，建
议不要提eviction这个词，这只会火上加油，本来对方还是想就此而已，如果楼主都说
eviction，对方一定会咬住不放，干脆接下来都不给你房租了，并且还会让你赔偿,至
于你要赶他们走，几个因素了，有没有lease,lease没有到期的话，除非他们没有付房
租（当然12月份特殊情况另论）或者你愿意赔偿他们，否则要early termination是几
乎不可能的，吃亏的肯定是房东。其次你的损失是可以向政府或者保险索要部分的，如
果房东有房贷并且是合法出租，是可以向贷款银行多多少少waive掉一部分12月的
mortgage,详情自己联络贷款银行。另外房客车子损坏房东无需责任的，他们自己claim
车子保险即可 |
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