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- Path: sparky!uunet!mitech!gjc
- From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette)
- Newsgroups: ne.general
- Subject: Re: How to deal with delinquent landlord?
- Message-ID: <4156@mitech.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 14:16:56 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.134037.11952@viewlogic.com>
- Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1992Dec18.134037.11952@viewlogic.com>, greg@mobius.viewlogic.com (Gregory Larkin) writes:
- > I am also considering placing the amount of money that garage
- > adds to the rent in an escrow account each month until the
- > repairs are done.
-
- How much is it? That is to say, the amount of rent for the garage
- and the amount of money it will cost to change the architecture
- of the building and the landscaping such that water never comes into
- the doors no matter how hard it rains or how much snowmelt.
-
- It could easily be the case that it would cost 4 or 5 thousand dollars
- of architectural work and landscaping to change the situation in
- that garage.
-
- The landlord could easily say: "OK, the use of the garage is free."
- If in negotiating with the landlord he say that, what would you do?
-
- Put $100 a month in an escrow account and it could take half a decade
- to build up to a level that would pay for landscaping and regrading,
- retaining walls, waterproofing, etc.
-
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-
- On the other hand, as far as a worry about creating grounds for eviction
- in any action you take, your most poweful weapon today is not
- the laws of the state but the laws of the market.
-
- If you -require- a dry garage then shop around for a house with a dry
- garage.
-
- -gjc
-