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We are going to be homeless in a little over a month because we complained too much about the management company's extreme neglect and the upstairs neighbors who have been terrorizing us for 9 months (self.goodoffmychest)

submitted 2 years ago by orphiebaby to c/goodoffmychest

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I'll try to keep this short.

Our management company is the worst-reputed in the state, so far as I can tell. They've been buying up a ton of properties and then sitting on them. The moment they took over, they fired our on-site superintendent and increased our rent. They then constantly gaslight us and ignore us whenever we put in work orders or complain about anything.

I got pneumonia years ago from the horrible insulation in our bedrooms. I was dry-heaving blood for a month and unable to get any sleep. I was hospitalized for it. I've repeatedly told them for years to do something about it, and they have so far done nothing.

We had a huge sewage leak where we were literally splashing through a giant puddle of sewage between our bedrooms and the living room for months. They refused to do anything about it. A social worker got ahold of Legal Aid, who reached out to me and then got on our management's ass.

Our building's basement apartments are overrun by cockroaches. I have woken up several times with them on me in bed.

Now our upstairs neighbors have been terrorizing us for months. I won't go into details, but it's noise-related and it drives us literally to tears, to drink, and outside of our apartment. They've purposely made it way worse in the last month, and we just now got the letter where they are filing a restraining order against us in retaliation for us calling the police on them five times after we called management a bunch and it was clear that they weren't going to help us. We have a Zoom court hearing soon; and while we put together a bunch of documents, complaints, and screenshots, I am increasingly feeling more hopeless about the justice system.

Our management company is very subtly hostile with us. They have cut off several of our communications, erased our work order history, and have retaliated by non-renewing our lease.

We have no money and will be homeless very soon. I have a social worker who's trying to help me, but the person who's supposed to be sending my diagnostic assessment is dragging her feet so hard.

I spend most nights now praying and crying. All we can do is wait now and see what happens.

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[–] databender 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you get in touch with local news outlets? A story in the news could turn public opinion against the landlords and light a fire under the asses of anyone who is supposed to be helping but is taking their sweet time.

[–] orphiebaby 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That sounds awesome. I wonder now. Though it's not the social worker I want to target— they're a great friend and usually awesome. It's the management company.