- Jurisdiction
- Kansas
My roommate and I moved in August of 2017 to our current apartment. Shortly before moving in, a lot happened with ownership of the company which led to the new company using our apartment as an office because they did not know we were going to live there. Because of that, the apartment was not cleaned properly before move in, since they started moving out about an hour before we arrived. We managed to make them clean most of it, but we ended up having to clean a lot of it. We were told they would be back in to clean the mold from the previous tenants from the bathroom by the following Monday. Here we are over a year later, and they still have made little to know effort to clean mold. We clean the bathroom regularly, as well as constantly bother them to come clean it. They are constantly firing managers, so our requests, no matter what format, keep getting "lost." The best we got was a guy who spray painted the ceiling mold, but that has already grown through. Due to the ridiculously poor ventilation (one vent with a fan that literally pours water all over our bathroom on occasion, which took months to get a plumber to look at it and tell us maybe what was causing it, and no windows) it is impossible to maintain a clean bathroom with preexisting mold without an industrial cleaner we do not have access to. The shower also does not drain well no matter how many times we snake it. How we have lived with it until now is unknown. We just want to know what the best course of action is. Do we withhold rent? Is it unlivable?