On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:29:25 GMT, "Joseph Meehan"
wrote:

Pop wrote:
Put the landlord on notice that future payments will be wittheld
for the electrical portion of the ac until it's fixed. Document

Depending on where he lives, that can be a recipe for an eviction. I
think in more places than not, it will result in his eviction.

The landlord may try to get him to pay the full rent, and only evict
him when he doesn't; or the ll may decide or have already decided he
doesn't want the guy, not encourage him to pay the full rent, be happy
he's not paying all of it, and evict him that way too. You really
shouldn't be giving such cavalier advice, Pop.

"Documenting" facts is great. It may keep him from owing as much
money as he would otherwise, but in most places it won't keep him from
the eviction in the first place.

In some places, maybe most, they put all your stuff out on the street,
for everyone to take things, when one is evicted. In Westminster,
Maryland, they seem to surround it with police tape, which one would
hope keeps people from taking things.

your facts. Perpare for a fight if the ll won't do anything
about it.
It almost sounds like your air is being shared with someplace
else from the differeing temps you describe.

Pop`

I suggest that you check your local tenant rights group before doing the

Absolutely. Of course in many places there is no tenants right group.
That's generally the places where tenants have few rights. But to
clarify my own confusing words, even if there is a tenants rights
gfoup, that doesn't mean tenants have the rights people think they
should or that they have elsewhere.

above. It could get you into a lot more trouble than you want. Do, it, but
do it the right way.