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my previous post from yesterday https://lemmy.ml/post/49529603

The good news I guess is that the timer starts on monday because the 3rd is the jurisdictional court's (might as well say Riverside County, CA) holiday for the 4th. And after my last post I went and bought a security camera, so worst case I can document my window being closed if I want to be a stupid coward that lets bullies play Calvinball with signed contracts against me. With my fucking life.

And it's just really important to me that the window stay open in my room. It's a whole list of deal breakers.

  • I don't want to get fucking covid from the 8 other units filled with people here because I'm the last weirdo that goes to work and the store with a mask on. When I keep the window closed because of paranoia over this conflict, I feel like I need to mask in my own bedroom. And that's fucked.

  • This luxurious closet sized bedroom is too small for a full sized person and two large cats to live on top of each other. They need to be able to lay out on the patio and enjoy life. And they need to be able to run back inside if something scares them, like the many coyote that have wilderness right fucking next door and I have seen in our back yard with my cats running from them. Can't do 'open it when they want back in' no how, no way. (There's also a giant drama about gates that enclose a section of the yard that apparently me closing them at night drives them into a steaming rage but keeps my guys safe)

  • There's 80 pounds of goddamned cat litter right next to the window and 8 feet from where I sit at the computer and sleep. I need the ventilation.

  • I LIKE THE FRESH AIR.

  • The A/C is too fucking cold anyway

In addition to buying the security camera (fuck I need an sd card of course it's separate) I also started looking for a new place to be miserable with a live-in landlord for too goddamned much money. But this shit is on a timeline WAY faster than that. Fuck.

So I don't want to be cowed by this. But I also don't want to get my life all fucked up by it. I don't want this demon to steal a whole month's rent (waited until the day after I paid this month's rent the fucking parasite) AND a 600 dollar penalty if I lose. Not to mention paying 4x what I can afford for an extended stay room...

I'm completely in the right but on the other hand do you think the judge rents, or do you think it's more likely they have some rental properties of their own and all their sentiments are with the law breaker psycho landlord?

Anyway this is my panic attack post

edit: I am purposefully not engaging with any comments on the subject of whether or not my landlord has a genuine gripe about me having my window open and my door closed in a room that does not have a temperature sensor for the A/C system. I offered to close the vent. I offered to have my rent raised to compensate. All was ignored. It's about power tripping. So this post is about my rights in the face of that.

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[โ€“] mynameisbob@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)
  1. Be a nail get hammered. Comply let the smoke settle and observe... hopefully they chase a squirrel. Find someone else to bother. Don't make enemies and make nice then.
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If the door is shut and there is no censor I see no problem. These comment jesus christ mary and joseph... chilll or not to chill that is the question. This is a very long thread. Is this some high level gipity?. Some kind of social experiment? Or is it the drama. When it comes to people or their problems I am gentle but my heart wants to eat a billionare.

[โ€“] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago

If the door is shut and there is no censor I see no problem.

Yeah that's the situation. And it's part of why I didn't want to engage with the A/C discussion that turned into 80% of this thread. I don't know if some sinister Russian agent is using subliminal pixels to make everyone angry in here of it's a Banksy art piece. I think it's just more likely people argue on the internet a lot.

[โ€“] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I will be honest. some of OPs' claims are hard to believe and weird.

but the first 3 accounts I have seen in the comments writing bullshit, also being against OP, have already got more downvotes by me than upvotes according to my client, even though I use downvotes very sparingly. that's telling something.

yes, it's likely someone is pouring time or money into making people hate each other in this place.

[โ€“] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I will be honest. some of OPsโ€™ claims are hard to believe and weird.

Landlord is a psycho. AMA.

[โ€“] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

part of the weird is the shared AC system should be pumping fresh air. I mean it sounds like cold air is coming in a tube to all rooms from a central place.

against cold air the solution is to put up some shirts. why aren't you doing that?

why do you believe the AC system is spreading covid? is covid an active threat right now in your area?

I don't have solution to the cats, maybe cat doors. but what will you do when winter comes and it will be cold outside?

[โ€“] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

Oh I'm not staying here until the winter.

And what the fuck is too difficult for you to understand about "I prefer the window open so that's how I have it"? Why are you trying to solve a problem that I have said is not a problem for me?