thebourne_id
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complain clandestinely to my landlady? As I am saving up the down to an affordable condo or townhouse, I really don't want to pay any more part of my income than necessary to have place to live so I rent part of a house (downstairs room/separate entrance/shared kitchen and bathroom) to free up most of my money. So far in the year and a half I have lived here, I have had a few neighbors and most of them were generally amiable and decent to be around. The new neighbor is clearly a nut and a half, as evidenced by his behavior. The first day I move in, I invited a buddy down for a BBQ and out of hospitality offered the new neighbor a burger and he turned it down as he was "fasting due to the completion of his drug study". Ok, so what, I let that go. The guy also does stuff that you clearly don't do in rented accommodations, and are mentioned in our lease papers, eg he smokes indoors, his cooking stinks up the place for days on end, he leaves the front door open, sometimes after he has left the house too, he tracks grass and twigs into the shower (W T F? ) and once he asked to cook on my BBQ grill and thought nothing of cooking for himself some ears of corn with mold on them he got from the food bank and left them on the BBQ so long they burst into flames and I had to tell him 5 times his stuff was on fire.
Today he was doing laundry and after his load left the wash he was too skint to afford another $1.25 to use the dryer so he hung up his clothes on the clothesline in the yard, only to chop down the clothesline 10 minutes later and spread his clothes flat across some busted furniture in the yard to resume drying. The dude also likes to mutter and talk at length to no one in particular in his own room so all is not right upstairs in his mind.
I want to complain to the landlady for his slobbing the place up and for being such a tedious weirdo, but being that we are the only 2 tenants in this section of the house he would need many guesses to figure out who talked to the landlady and I don't want to come home from work one day (that's another thing, I work, he does not as he is home 99% of the time) and find my door kicked in and my stuff ransacked and busted.
Anyone have prior experience dealing with something like this? I don't want to move, as this location is useful to me. Ideally this guy already is his own worst enemy and will F up in more apparent ways and get evicted, but I am strategizing for a plan B.
See, there's the rub, I split the downstairs with this guy, none of the other tenants get to experience this crap, my landlady also has some clauses not to stink up the kitchen with cooking and not to slob up the bathrooms which he does. She also has a clause (like this really needs to be pointed out to people in the city) to CLOSE up the house as you leave. By my count he has already screwed up 3 different ways, I already knew I couldn't complain just for him being a weirdo, I know that much...
Today he was doing laundry and after his load left the wash he was too skint to afford another $1.25 to use the dryer so he hung up his clothes on the clothesline in the yard, only to chop down the clothesline 10 minutes later and spread his clothes flat across some busted furniture in the yard to resume drying. The dude also likes to mutter and talk at length to no one in particular in his own room so all is not right upstairs in his mind.
I want to complain to the landlady for his slobbing the place up and for being such a tedious weirdo, but being that we are the only 2 tenants in this section of the house he would need many guesses to figure out who talked to the landlady and I don't want to come home from work one day (that's another thing, I work, he does not as he is home 99% of the time) and find my door kicked in and my stuff ransacked and busted.
Anyone have prior experience dealing with something like this? I don't want to move, as this location is useful to me. Ideally this guy already is his own worst enemy and will F up in more apparent ways and get evicted, but I am strategizing for a plan B.
See, there's the rub, I split the downstairs with this guy, none of the other tenants get to experience this crap, my landlady also has some clauses not to stink up the kitchen with cooking and not to slob up the bathrooms which he does. She also has a clause (like this really needs to be pointed out to people in the city) to CLOSE up the house as you leave. By my count he has already screwed up 3 different ways, I already knew I couldn't complain just for him being a weirdo, I know that much...