Landlords: School’s out
When Chris Scavone ’11 opened the door of his newly-renovated off-campus apartment at 162 Park St. this summer, something was terribly wrong. As he entered the aging brick building, he was struck by a strange odor, a smell that housemate Chris Labosky ’10 would later describe as “steaming piss.” Set of keys in hand, Scavone began to explore the house and soon discovered he was unable to unlock the door to the first-floor apartment. He assumed there had just been a mistake; after all, he and his friends had leased the entire building.
Suddenly, Scavone heard yelling from inside.
It sounds to me like Gottesdiener is being abused by her landlord, and blaming herself when the landlord is clearly at fault. Landlords do not have weeks of leeway to make repairs, and they have all sorts of obligations to provide alternative accommodation if yours becomes uninhabitable.
How about a follow-up article on tenant rights and remedies?
That falls under the Livible Cities ( LCI) That Landlord has to put you in a hotel/motel or holiday inn, if just for 3 days until repairs are made
I've lived in four off-campus locations while at Yale, and renting from the management company Elm Campus Partners is by far the best! They're owned by Yale, and only rent to students and employees of Yale, which means they're quite used to dealing with students. It's sort of like halfway between living on campus and the "real world". I've never had any major problems (especially not a ceiling collapse - which is crazy!), but even little issues are taken care of professionally right away. All you do is fill out an online form, and more often than not a maintenance guy is there in a few hours or less to deal with it.
I was surprised to hear some of these off-campus horror stories. If you want a reliably awesome off-campus living situation - rent from Elm Campus, they've been the best.
And I'm sure you have absolutely no connection to Elm Campus Partners whatsoever.
Actually I'm not affiliated with Elm Campus, I'm a senior in Pierson. I just thought I should let people know that there's a management company in new haven that doesn't let the ceiling cave in on you, or let weird homeless people occupy half your apartment. I'm not getting paid for this, I just like where I live.
I hear a need to make a few phone calls to fair housing agencies. Any time you advertise anywhere it is under a code of the fair housing act. Do they tell responders that this off campus housing is for students only ?
Yes they do and that is against the law. Are these abodes on the tax registry as they should be ? No , and that is against the law
Wait...it's legal for this random homeless guy to live in someone else's house without paying rent...just because he somehow got in? How is that not breaking and entering? Or trespassing?
That is such BS. Totally f-ed up.
Who is this Schepps character?
absolutely no mention of students living in fraternity / sorority houses? great reporting, ydn