- Jurisdiction
- Wisconsin
Hello,
I currently live in a 4 bedroom apartment in Wisconsin with 3 other roommates. On September 27 we all received a letter informing us that our unit will undergo construction to tear out the carpet and place new hardwood floors. This will take place from August 1 - 6 and we move out on the 15th. The letter (and confirmed by the incompetent property manager) stated that we are to move ALL personal belongings (4 roommates) into the bathroom and kitchen and move the furniture (which isn't ours, they provided) to the BALCONY. Then over the course of 6 days, the construction crew will tear out the carpets and put in hardwood floors in our bedrooms. During that time we are to sleep on our mattresses (4 roommates in a small college apartment) on the floor of our living room. We are trying to fight this, but our landlord is threatening eviction if we don't comply. They are seriously incompetent and cited a literal blog post from 2014. This apartment company has also entered our apartment without notice, had the construction crew move our personal belongings without notice, and left a huge mess of dust (to which I had an allergic reaction). I documented all of this and didn't receive a response because the manager "didn't have access" to the email I had emailed them to before. We are 4 broke college kids. 3 of us work from home and can't have our carpets taken out at 8 am. We also can't all sleep on the living room floor for at least 3 days (the landlord doesn't know what she is talking about so she is unable to give us specific days). (In the past the apartment didn't have working heat for over 40 days in the middle of the winter and I sent them pics of the snow in my room and the glass of frozen water on my windowsill and they told me it's my responsibility to seal my windows).
Any advice/help is welcome! I'm fighting this because I know there are college freshman in the other units who don't know that they can fight. I'm tired of these huge apartment companies increasing rent to stay competitive with university housing at the expense of their own tenants.
I currently live in a 4 bedroom apartment in Wisconsin with 3 other roommates. On September 27 we all received a letter informing us that our unit will undergo construction to tear out the carpet and place new hardwood floors. This will take place from August 1 - 6 and we move out on the 15th. The letter (and confirmed by the incompetent property manager) stated that we are to move ALL personal belongings (4 roommates) into the bathroom and kitchen and move the furniture (which isn't ours, they provided) to the BALCONY. Then over the course of 6 days, the construction crew will tear out the carpets and put in hardwood floors in our bedrooms. During that time we are to sleep on our mattresses (4 roommates in a small college apartment) on the floor of our living room. We are trying to fight this, but our landlord is threatening eviction if we don't comply. They are seriously incompetent and cited a literal blog post from 2014. This apartment company has also entered our apartment without notice, had the construction crew move our personal belongings without notice, and left a huge mess of dust (to which I had an allergic reaction). I documented all of this and didn't receive a response because the manager "didn't have access" to the email I had emailed them to before. We are 4 broke college kids. 3 of us work from home and can't have our carpets taken out at 8 am. We also can't all sleep on the living room floor for at least 3 days (the landlord doesn't know what she is talking about so she is unable to give us specific days). (In the past the apartment didn't have working heat for over 40 days in the middle of the winter and I sent them pics of the snow in my room and the glass of frozen water on my windowsill and they told me it's my responsibility to seal my windows).
Any advice/help is welcome! I'm fighting this because I know there are college freshman in the other units who don't know that they can fight. I'm tired of these huge apartment companies increasing rent to stay competitive with university housing at the expense of their own tenants.
