Without writing PAGES AND PAGES worth of info, here is the gist of the story: We moved into an apartment august 15th of last year. We were in a rush to rent because our last place had flooded and we were living in a hotel. We agreed and signed a 1 year lease with our landlord. (that included snow removal, and our water ).By november, i had seen a mouse in my aprtment and contacted my landlord to let him know-he sent someone over to set up 4-5 traps (and no followup whatsoever)… it took us a few weeks to catch it, but when we came home from christmas holidays (we spent them in our hometown), we caught yet another m ouse in our bedroom… (and just to add onto frustration, while this is happening, were also being neglected by the plows that were suppose to do our driveway for WEEKS as i kept asking for one to come and dig us out since i was 6 months pregnant)
After calling and calling them to fix this mouse problem AND to plow our driveway, i finally set up a meeting with the landlord on the 22nd of january, which he did not show up to (one of his representatives talked to me)..
. i explained my fears for my health and my unborn child's health, and that my doctor told me to get OUT of this problem was not fixed ASAP. She seemed concerned and told me an exterminator would be over by the END OF THE DAY… yet a few days later, stil nothing even tho i was calling them every day! finally i asked a friend to borrow his two cats for a few days… turns out the youngest liked "nooks" and she found a HUGE hold in the wall that was being hidden by our dryer! (and this "cut" hole was larger than the span of my hand, good place for mice to get in)..
So i sent a picture of this hole TO my landlord and said maybe this should be fixed, this is probably where the mice are coming from-Plus it's dangerous (because the cat hid in there for two days!)
The landlord still was giving me no indicatino that he was going to help me so i tried with the rentalsman (which is a totally different story, but with the same results, we COULD NOT seem to get help from them after multiple, multiple attempts to..)..so, we gave our notice, stating that we would be out by march 1st (two weeks before i was due), stating we were scared for our health (since we were finding mouse droppings under every register, IN our stove burners, etc..) and also our babies, mice carry very serious diseases that we should never be exposed to, even while cleaning the droppings (which myself and y spouse did many times).
Rentalsman of course ruled in the landlord's favor because we did not give proper notice-however MY point that no one seems to be understanding is… Even though i AM breaking the lease, im doing it for my health… Did he not break the lease when he failed to provide us with our RIGHTFUL habitable premesis… Rentalsman say we have no case because the notice wasnt proper, but when the only people who are suppose to HELP tenants are giving me harder times than the landlord, what am i isuppose to do?
I have pictures of mice droppings everywhere, a video of a mouse running across the floor in broad daylight, tv on and me sitting on the couch, and pictures of ALL the letters we sent to the landlord, requesting for this to be fixed (aka; the mice, the holes behind the dryer, and the outside of our house that was smashed in, possibly lettting in rodants)…
Im quite confidant i have a pretty good case, and would like more than anything for my old landlord to be reprimanded for making a pregnant woman stay in these conditions… and if i didnt think he cuold get any MORE foolish-he also had the place up on kijiji for rent two days before we moved out… so he has NO intentions of fixing this before allowing other tenants in!
Added (1). P.S- the woman who lived upstrairs to this duplex ALSO had mice, and was scared to end tenancy quickly, so she ended up staying until her required date
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