I am brand new to this forum.
I wanted to seek some advice on my situation.
I am a stay at home father with a three year old daughter in Brooklyn NY.
My wife works six days a week and we just moved into an apt with a ton of issues that were not made available to us prior to our move.
We do not have money to move out, but for our health and sanity we must move out.
We have decided to withhold rent and use that to move because the conditions are so terrible.
I know its not right to withhold rent, but no one including the management company or the realtor was honest about this apt.
If anyone said there would be construction six days a week, we would not have moved here, let alone all the other issues you can read below.
Not paying rent is going to ruin our credit but what choice do we have ?
We rent but there are tenants who also own their apt's as well.
Every tenant i have spoken with is desperately trying to move out or break their lease, not a single person has anything good to say about this building.
I found out that this apt hadn't been rented in over eight months, now i know why...
Here is a list-
1-Major construction going on in the building inside and out.
The constant drilling and banging of the construction crew six days a week has been absolutely relentless from 8am to 5pm.
Our three year old daughter can't stay asleep during her daily nap with this level of noise.
2-We can't open our windows because of the level of dust and debris that comes into our home.
The construction guys are wearing masks so they don’t breathe this in but we are breathing this in on a daily basis.
3-The heat is on 100 degrees every single day weather it is cold or not outside, there isn't a shut off valve for me to turn off the heat and there isn’t a single thermostat in this entire building to regulate the heat which is a waste of resources,
so opening the windows is a must, but then the apartment is filled with brick dust which is unhealthy.
There are many other issues that come with living here as well, such as
4-people drinking and smoking marijuana in front of the building which is right by our windows on the ground floor and comes right into our home and stinks up the entire apartment for hours.
There is a guy who is obviously on heroin and talks about waiting for his drug dealer to come see him.
This happens during the day and at night, every single night.
They talk until 3am and are a nuisance, my wife wakes up for work at 6am.
5-There is also people that smoke cigarettes outside my window on their cell phones lol
i can't win, now i have cigarette smoke coming into my home along with loud conversations ?
My daughter , my wife and i can not sleep because of these people.
Ive kindly asked them to please not hang out in front of our home and they respectfully say ok only to come back the next night.
6-I suffer from severe sleep apnea which is documented by my doctor, I have a Cpap machine that I have to wear to help me breathe at night.
So I have a hard time sleeping as it is, but when drug addicts are out in front of our window, no one can sleep at all.
I have a young child that needs her rest and none of us are sleeping because of this.
7-We have water bugs and roaches in the apartment, so much so that you can smell their oily awful presence in the kitchen.
Yes the exterminator has come but it does nothing.
I have to cook all of our meals because we can not afford to eat out, but with the insect problem it makes doing so very difficult,
How can I cook Christmas dinner and invite people to our home like this ?
We have only been here since Oct 1st and it is a nightmare.
There is also mice in the apt, i have found mouse droppings all over my kitchen.
8-None of us can take a normal shower, the water constantly gets ice cold or boiling hot all on its own without us touching it.
9- constant noise in the hallway which echoes through the entire first floor, kids crying, dogs barking, slamming of doors, people are incredibly selfish.
I am a stay at home father, my duty is to take care of my daughter but i am having a lot of anxiety because of everything i have mentioned.
Without sleep i can not function properly, without opening a window we can not breathe in this hot apartment.
I realize that the construction must go on, but the people hanging outside our window, roaches, mice and the heat have to stop.
I have videos that will show you the decimal level of construction in this house on a daily basis.
I have had apartments all over NY and this is the absolute worst.
Lastly, i have sent an email mentioning all of what we are going through and theres been no response.