help with our apt.....(vent/rant/need advice)

we are friends with our landlords - he was in our bp and daughter was our fg - but they are not attentive at all and i guess we are pushovers.....

i moved in 2 yrs ago
- they were supposed to get smoke detectors, after 2 weeks we bought them ourselves b/c $20 bucks was worth more than our lives we thought!
-our freezer instantly freezer bruns anytyhing and everything - anything in there turns intstantly into a layer of ice - which is really appetizing of course....
-only one burner on the stove works and trust me i am no gourmet chef but its really hard to cook using one burner, a geroge forman and a microwave combo to cook (oh and might i add if we use too many appliances, it shorts out!)
-the oven works but not well and i think its from 1920, i have never in my life seen one like it, it doesn't even have a 'peeking' window on it to see how the stuff yo ubake is doing!
-it is always cold up there (heat rises my butt!) last year they finally heard our complaints and had a guy come in and check out the heating and it turned out that three of the radiators had been turned off - one even had the valve break off as the guy tried to work on it (and yes, the valve is still sitting there unfixed by them!) - its not even that there is so much of a heat problem anymore - the landlady just keeps it at 50 all the time - its a game, i run down or dh runs down and click up the heat, minutes later, she is out clicking it back down - dh has even spoken to her dh and he just laughs it off as his wife being crazy....
-when we got married b/c dh was ofifcually living there instead of random days, they raised our rent by 300 more $$.

now it is a fairly nice apt but needs work (which on principle, i refuse to do considering we rent!). they are great frineds to us but just lazy when it comes to their house and ours.(its a 2 family!) its hard because we don't really have a lease or anything and dh is close to him but its getting crazy...we feel stupid - we are paying them money to live in a half dump! we are in the process of doing contruction on a house we bought which they know and even though they keep promising to fix things, they don't....its emabarassing to have people over b/c of the cold and they little things - i mena we could never have a dinner party...lol...unless its a make your own hero!

we are kinda in a hard place but it just burns me up...anyone have any suggesitons or words of advice....right now we are tryign to bide our time and move in as soon as we can but still, we are getting so fed up!

thanks for letting me rant and sorry for any typos!!!

They raised your rent $300 for the presence of an extra person-and they're your friends? I wonder what they'd do to a stranger. When we looked at apartments three years ago, the difference between one and two people was typically less than $100.

When will you be moving out? If it's within a few months there's not much you can do at this point except wait it out. Personally I would object to the increase and try to meet somewhere in the middle.

I'm sorry you're going through this....

If you feel like you are not getting your moneys worth - move out! Especially if you are planning on moving into your own house soon, there is no reason to stay in this place if you are being mistreated. You can part amicably and still be friendly with your landlords if you give them notice. Even if you say nothing, Im sure they will figure out why you left.

did you ever sit down and tell them all of this? If so, what is their reply? How could they raise your rent ($300?!, that's alot I might add) and they are 'friends' that don't repair anything?

I would try to get out...even if you need to move in with your parents or ILs...tell them you can't swing the extra $300 or want to save for a house...


we went through the cold one winter...and since our LL paid for gas...I boiled pots of water on the stove and turned the oven on and left the door open...not sure if it will help you in the meantime...


Its never worth it to live somewhere where you are not happy going home to

you've lived there for two years like this and your dear old friends gave you a $300 rent hike.

what is it that you are asking of the board?

maybe im the only saying what everyone else is thinking but you're suckers for putting up with it and you should move out.

if you're not going to find something cheaper than what you pay now after the $300 step up then you probably already pay too little in which case you can suck it up.