Pricey Slum Sitch
I live in Seattle, and right now, I pay 665$ in rent, and the 2 other ladies that I live with pay more than that because their rooms are bigger than mine. And I am writing because I am disturbed at the state of dis-repair of the building. It is definitely within the slum spectrum. For that kind of money, slum spectrum.
Allow me to elucidate, and please see photos.
This is in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle. This is in a basement apartment. The ceiling in the hallway outside our apartment looks pretty damn rotten from constant leaking, and just the lack of pride in keeping a building up just offends me greatly. What is this landlord planning? Just to let the entire ceiling fall down? And when the plumber does come to stop the leaking he leaves pieces of ceiling on the floor in front of our front door — for us to clean up? And buckets are left still full of water just in front of our front door blocking our path out (when it’s not leaking anymore). I assume that because the landlord obviously does not care about “his” building why should the plumber care to clean up after another repair, and I do not know what these repairs are doing but so far they don’t seem to last very long and the leaking starts up again.
If your are going to own a building and rent it out for people to live in, have some kind of pride in your building. Especially when collecting this high amount of rent monthly.
There are also other things wrong with the place like the caulking around the tub has disintegrated and water goes into the wall of the bathroom when the shower/tub is used, and this needs to be replaced but my housemate doesn’t want to bring it up while the constant leaking outside our front door is the topic at hand.
I say, if you are going to do work on people’s homes clean, up after the work. I mean duh. But Really, if a place isn’t respected/kept up anyone who encounters it will be less inspired to respect it as well.
Let’s step it up folks, we’re all in this together!
