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.

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
    1812·
    18 hours ago

    Today’s forecast for Riverside, CA is high of 90F and 80% humidity. I’d want this asshole kicked to the curb if I was another renter in the house dealing with someone repeatedly opening the windows and defeating the AC.

    Feels like a Reddit AITA creative writing exercise for rage bait. I don’t miss it.

    Edit: correction, I had the humidity incorrect. It’s 90F and humidity in the 20s today. Still hot and still a shit thing to do to housemates if opening windows and defeating the A/C.

    • Michael@slrpnk.net
      155·
      21 hours ago

      Feels like I am on Kiwi Farms. Love the defense of landlords and lack of empathy/understanding of the housing crisis, which OP is facing. Let them know about the forecast without being a dick about it.

      The humidity is also not 80% throughout the day there. The humidity is quite low (20-25%~ when the heat peaks at 93 degrees at time of writing). It’s also low overall, I don’t see 80% anywhere, the highest I see is 50%~ and that is earlier and later in the day when it’s 70s.

      Source: https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/riverside/92506/hourly-weather-forecast/327146

      (And Semi-Functional Archive: https://archive.is/almLK - reveals that it’s 42% humidity and 80 degrees at time of archival)

      See OP’s edit:

      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.

      • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
        75·
        18 hours ago

        I said nothing about the landlord. There are other people in the same shitty house with the same shitty landlord, only they’re also dealing with a housemate opening a window all the time because he’s got 80 fucking pounds of cat litter smelling up the place.

        Like I said, Lemmy rage bait. Complain about a landlord (rightfully) and everyone goes blind to all the other problems with the story.

        I could have sworn it said 80% humidity this morning but I must have been looking at the wrong city and will admit I was wrong on that point. But I still hold that opening the window in 90F at any humidity is a shitty thing to do to housemates.

        In the parlance of reddit AITA, they’re both assholes.

        • Michael@slrpnk.net
          51·
          18 hours ago

          I’m pretty sure you lied, I checked as soon as you posted from multiple sources. You’re just contributing to the dog-pile and you proved it here when paired with your former response:

          Like I said, Lemmy rage bait. Complain about a landlord (rightfully) and everyone goes blind to all the other problems with the story.

          You say (rightfully) now, but when you posted you said, “I’d want this asshole kicked to the curb if I was another renter in the house dealing with someone repeatedly opening the windows and defeating the AC.”. The OP offered to pay more rent to offset the costs.

          Also, when you posted, the thread was overwhelmingly anti-OP. With significant upvotes on hateful and abusive posts. So, there’s another distortion of facts from you.

          Why abuse OP? Focus on real issues instead of bullying somebody facing housing insecurity.

          • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
            53·
            18 hours ago

            The OP offered to pay more rent to offset the costs.

            Again, I was empathizing with the housemates dealing with both shit landlord and shit housemate. What does OP paying more money to the landlord do to help the housemates? You think the landlord is going to give them a slice of that? I have a bridge to sell you.

            I also edited original comment to correct myself on the humidity, leaving my original statement up. It was unintentional and can admit to the error.

            • Michael@slrpnk.net
              41·
              18 hours ago

              How does this affect the housemates if the cooling is sufficient? You are the one arguing that OP is creating a problem for the housemates. OP suggested that they could offset the costs to the person responsible for paying the electricity. I suggested that they could close the window during peak temperatures and humidity levels.

              What if the landlord is just unwilling to work with OP and is as psychotic as they say they are? Actually read the details…

              OP didn’t provide the agreement because it’s not legible.

              • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
                24·
                17 hours ago

                OP didn’t provide the agreement because it’s not legible.

                Now you’re being disingenuous. I’ve said nothing about the agreement and again nothing about the landlord other than to agree he’s a bag of shit. If you’re so caught up replying to multiple people that you can’t keep their positions straight, I think that says more about your bias than mine.

                • Michael@slrpnk.net
                  31·
                  17 hours ago

                  Nah, I’m locked in here - not confusing anybody. Better luck next time when people catch you being abusive to vulnerable people. It’s right there for everybody to see. You assumed bad faith from OP and judged them from the start, even if you have now pivoted.

                  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
                    13·
                    17 hours ago

                    Find where I defended the landlord, bud. Im waiting for the direct quote, please. I’ve already shown where you misattributed statements about the agreement to me.