Tenant Rights

[Geoff]

I reside in a mobile house, and that I realize that when you yourself have a house you're accountable for repairs. Your house is positioned in the mobile home group, the city has rules. I've a duplicate of those guidelines and recognize them totally. My issue is whenever we get a writeup to get a principle indication, the tenant is generally providing X quantity of times to accomplish a fix. Our issue is I'd prefer to understand what regulations enables an effective period of time to repair a principle indication or perhaps a rule breach. Occasionally this landlord may place a breach thatis a foolish as picking up dog poop he provides you with 5 times to wash and costs you a $25 good for this. Lately, we got wrote up for power-washing, he offered me per month to repair the issue. I could not repair the problem and so I employed somebody within the playground to complete it. This landlord made us do that in the centre of the snowstorm. This really is my priority, and that I need to know what our rights are. Today we get another principle indication, I've less the other day-to repair/restore my front-porch. How is just a landlord permitted to condition what times he provides you with to correct an issue and under particular climate conditions may he write you up. At this time we simply had a lot of rainfall and under my patio where he wishes me to correct is crammed. I've less a day-to repair this. Im goiing to request additional time due to climate circumstances not permitting the fix. Nevertheless, personally I think Iam still likely to get another writeup tomorrow, since my landlord just alloted me less then twenty four hours to repair the issue. I want understand my rights here IF you will find any since im at my wits end with this specific landlord.

[chinmayananda]

So far as your last declaration. I actually do have pix of the terrace that's significantly worse then mine, I've images about the mobile phone and taking photos throughout me to show breach factors that weam keeping these images for my reasons. I'm likely to paint it but I want understand is just a landlord permitted to create PERSONAL time-frames for tenants to correct their issue if it generally does not condition an alloted time period within the rent. Sorry I do not understand authorized conditions, Iam simply looking to get OUR PRIVILEGES like a tenant. I rent the property, that my mobile home is on. I own the mobile property, the playground does not possess my portable home. If that is sensible? Please no pessimism concerning the correct advantages I simply have to know what my rights are regarding time-frames for repairs. Thanks for the input.

[Sid]

If you could check for Ohio, for that would be awesome! I checked on Google Im pretty good at digging up info. Bu since i've never owned a MOBILE HOME before, I know that the laws are different. Also, If this helps i get along with all of my neighbors on my side of the park minus one neighbor that's a crack head we dont bother with him. Anyways, my other neighbor got wrote up for not painting her shed and she told me she got like almost a month to repair her shed. Don't get me wrong I do communicate with my landlord i bend over backwards, he writes us up we fix it right away. I even paid to have my house power washed even though there was an ice/snow storm at the time. I complied but this time it's gone to far, i don't understand how he's allowed to make up his own time frame for repairs to be done that's almost inhuman to paint where there is alot of weather problems. He was nice enough to give me a week extension on painting my deck. But I have pictures of other decks on our street that are not painted.

[Cosgrove]

My gripe is about the alloted time the LAW gives for tenants to get the repairs done. And forcing tenants to repair stuff in impossible weather situations. This is the same landlord, that hit a tenant with his own truck in the mobile home community itself and it still allowed to run the park. The same park that leaves thier own sewage gate open for children to run in unsafe conditions. This man askes for unreasonable repairs in unreasonable conditions. i couldn't even paint right NOW due to the fact there is flooding under my deck and around it. I did however ask for an extension and explained this situation. They also relayed to me that there were 72 violations wrote up on my street alone. Something is not right, like I said i want to know what the law allows since there is no exact time stated in the lease for the repairs to be done. In otherwords, it says you must maintain the deck or skirting which is fine, but in the lease it doesn't state how long you have to repair it. But he is allowed to give less then 24 hours to repair something? Thats not right. See where I'm going with the repair time being allowed there is no clause in our lease that states it has to be done in a certain time frame, but he's allowed to make up his own time period rules for repairs to be done.

[Jurre]

Oh yes, I forgot to mention the fact that he has a guy that he pays to do under the table work for him around the mobile home park. I got my power washing issue corrected by hiring him. LL pays him and then the LL charges under my lease and posts the extra money on my account. I also got a nice little late fee for that. But that's another situation. I just want to know how to get this LL checked out for doing stuff he's not supposed to be doing regarding the rule reminders and violations on the lease. What justifies being a repair vs painting the shed or deck.

[Weifield]

Many states have separate laws as to mobile home parks --slightly different than regular L-T laws--I did not look for OH.

Fundamentally your rights and duties are those set in your lease--which may allow for LL to publish "rules"

If you think he has gone beyond the  lease -you resist and one of you takes the other to court .

If he gives you 48 hours to make a repair and some neighbor gets 4800 hours to get it done--that's not necessarily a violation--that  is no common contract of you with neighbor either.

If he gives you 48 hours to do something and its hailing out and then runs  -10  --well it may run from absurd to impossible and the judge is likely to toss him out  of SC court --especially if by time you all get there the repair has been completed.

If you don't get along--one of you decides to give formal notice to the other and set the wheels in motion to move/evict.

[Eugenius]

This is perhaps 90% about what the contract/lease says --if the lease allows for LL to instruct you to make a repair in 48 hours--well that's what the lease allows him to do.

Now if it takes you 148 hours to get it done--what does the lease say--if the lease gets too onerous or the weather condition border on impossible I doubt the court would enforce a "penalty" provision for repair completed promptly but not instantly .  --law does not like private "penalty" clauses and general view of many contracts is you need to abate/cure whatever.

That said, LL may be free to not renew lease --or you may be free to not renew lease

It may be to your advantage to be in a park where the LL is a bit gruff about making tenants keep up---go visit one with a sloppy LL before you complain too much?

[Hanniel]

Also, for the power washing issue. It wasn't that bad far as being dirty, however i did actually get a rule violation ticket on my door for not having done the power washing in the appropriate time frame that he wanted it done.

[Payat]

Lisab4169:i don't understand how he's allowed to make up his own time frame for repairs to be done that's almost inhuman to paint where there is alot of weather problems.

Not hard to understand at all.  It's like the Golden Rule.  He who has the gold, makes the rule.  In other words, he can do anything that is NOT prohibited by a law that says otherwise.  I suspect that unless what he does is contradicted or in conflict with YOUR lease, then it's OK.  Unfair, probably. Illegal, not likely. 

If you don't like the way he runs his trailer park, move your trailer somewhere else as soon as your lease is up. 

 

 

[Dour]

I thank y'all for the replies, I am looking into those rights. I do have plans on correcting the "repair", I don't think painting the deck, is considered a "repair" problem. There are others that didn't get the paint your deck or shed write up like we did. I just question the coding or whatever it is in the lease. It says REPAIR, I'm just not sure that justifies being a repair? I will check into the local county governent you told me about I do appreciate all the advise here. Just rather frustrated as to how this guy can do this. I understand he's trying to keep his community up but somethings have gone just a little to far. Like my neighbor got a write-up yesterday and the LL was on his property taking stones off his property, that he was using for gardening purposes. That's just not right morally, but legally i understand it's another situation. Yes, I googled Landlord tenant laws in ohio, I don't think it got me anywhere because I do not know the legal terms. Unfortunately, I cannot move my mobile home out of the park until my mobile home is paid off. Thanks again for all the advise! Really do appreciate it.