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[TorchTheWitch]

24. it would have to go through formal eviction, but

I went through that before with my last landlord 10 years ago which is how I ended up here. That landlord wasn't anything close to as bad as this one, but the code enforcement office condemned the apartment because of one issue which I didn't even know was an issue... he had the clothes dryer vent vented into the attic instead of to the outdoors.

With this landlord, there are major problems she hasn't fixed for almost 2 years. The cracked sewage pipe in the basement alone would have this place condemned. This is why I never called the code enforcement office to force her to make repairs... from past experience I knew they would condemn the property and I'd be forced to leave.

When this happened with the last landlord the court gave 30 days for me to get out. This was also in the middle of winter when there was practically nothing available. The code enforcement office argued for me to leave immediately claiming a fire hazard, but the judge thankfully ended up ruling that I could have 30 days as long as I didn't use the clothes dryer.

In my present situation, the code enforcement office has a good case of making me leave immediately just because of the sewage pipe. And when I went through this before I had a good job and a lot of savings, so the only issue was just packing up and finding another place to live. This time I have only a few hundred dollars to my name and no income since I still haven't been able to find a job. There's just no way anyone will rent so much as a room to me.

I have family, but they have their own financial problems, and none of them can even offer a couch for me to sleep on. At least none of them have offered. I'm not very close to my family.

So far I haven't been able to find anything on the county's website of anything that would be helpful to someone like me without being diabled, having young kids, pregnancy, drug or alcohol problems or being elderly. Nevertheless, once the phone is recharged I'll try them anyway.

From my own experience and what I've seen if a property is condemned as inhabitable (and it doesn't take much to do that) depending on what the problem is the tenant can be forced out immediately - at their own expense.

I'm just not in a position now to be able to leave even if I wanted to. And for years I've had every reason to want to get out of here and away from being under the thumb of this despicable slumlord. I shudder to think of what would happen if I just didn't leave. More than likely the sheriff would come and bodily throw me out.

They say that the law favors the tenant, but in my own experience it doesn't. And maybe that's because of property the landlord has allowed to become unihabitable, I don't know. In my other situation with my past landlord neither the court nor the code enforcement office cared a wit about me. They cared about the property and the landlord paying his fines and making repairs.

Even if I can convince the slumlord not to evict me, I'd still have to be able to pay her the full rent on the 15th or she will anyway. None of which even makes any sense since she said herself that she'd never be able to get another tenant until maybe April, so she wouldn't be getting rent from anyone until then. She keeps claiming that she has to have the rent to pay her mortgage, but how does she pay her mortgage without anyone's rent through April? See, this is the kind of person she is.

Right now I don't even know if I can trust that if I was able to pay the rent somehow by the 15th if she still wouldn't evict me anyway. Nothing she says or does makes any sense.