She Hired an Exterminator for a Pest Infestation—Then Her Neighbor Exploded Because the Landlord Ordered a Building-Wide Inspection
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Everyone deserves to have a safe, clean place to live. That’s not too much to ask.
Imagine renting an apartment, and you see a roach. You’re so allergic that you end up in the hospital.
Do you think it would be reasonable to ask the landlord to take care of the bug problem?
In this story, one woman finds herself in that situation, and she didn’t think she was doing anything wrong until she talked to her neighbor. Now, she’s wondering if she really did push too far.
Let’s read all about it.
AITA for sending a demand letter to my landlord and them in turn forcing inspections on all the tenants in my building?
I [27F] and my husband [28M] moved into our own apartment back in July 2021.
When we moved in we didn’t have any problems except seeing a roach or two that we thought was normal, but over the next couple months that quickly turned into seeing them daily, all sorts of sizes.
It got so bad to the point my asthma started acting up because I am allergic to roaches, and the anxiety of having an infestation in my clean apartment landed me in the hospital.
I had no idea where they were coming from.
But she had to find out.
I pleaded with my management to do something and they refused.
I hired my own exterminators that stated that unless they treated every single unit in my building, the roaches would keep coming in.
The law in my city says that landlords are responsible for pest control and if they don’t do anything about it within a certain time frame, I can take them to court.
So I hired a lawyer that sent them a demand letter, along with my exterminator bills and hospital bills and it must’ve scared management because they put a letter on everybody’s door stating tomorrow they will be doing a mandatory inspection of all apartments to see where the infestation could be coming from.
Her neighbor is mad at her.
I was talking to my next door neighbor as I got home from work and he was upset because he apparently has been subletting which is against the rules and has animals that the landlord doesn’t know about.
When I told him that it was probably because of me he called me an AH for making such a big deal about “a few little bugs.”
I don’t think I’m a jerk, but I didn’t know they were going to force inspections. I just want my apartment to be roach free 🙁 So, AITA?
It’s not her fault that the neighbor is breaking the rules. She wasn’t trying to get anyone in trouble. She just wants a bug free apartment. No, that’s not too much to ask.
Let’s see how Reddit responded.
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This is what I was thinking too!
Another person thinks the landlord doesn’t need to do inspections.
This person thinks the landlord would’ve found out about the neighbor eventually anyway.
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Nobody thinks she did anything wrong.
She is not asking too much. Her health is more important than the neighbor getting away with breaking the rules. He can be upset, but the landlord probably would’ve found out eventually anyway.
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