House of Chaos #1

It has been probably 6 months since I moved in here.
Since I moved in... this house has been a cause of my stress.
SO, I would like to share my bad experience here to reduce my stress.

I am sure my old roommate would like to join some points. :-P

Anyway.. I am going to write down what things have been happened here since I moved in..

SEPTEMBER
After I moved in.. 3rd week of September, I tried to use a gas oven..
and ignited but it didn't work.. then I started smelled gas slowly but surely.

I thought it wouldn't be going any worse, so I went to bed that night.. but a couple of days later, upstairs people smelled it very strongly and called BC hydro. They told upstairs to evacuate just in case. I was not at home that time so I heard this story.

Our landlord, K, told us that she is going to fix its problems soon... so we waited for a while..

At the end of September, my first roommate moved out that was because he could not handle her "K"... I understood by that time but I was the one signed its contract... so I could not leave...so I found another roommate from October.


OCTOBER
She sent a person to fix the oven. The person who thought gas pipe (tube) was problem, so he replaced the tube.. but it was not THAT. It was because pilot lit pipe was clogged.. Yeah, good job.. so it kept smelling after his replacing pipe, of course.

We called her again and told her it still smells.. and she came in and check and smelled it.. she called BC Hydro to come over and check what's wrong with it. She said 10pm.. they are coming so she came 10pm but they didn't come before she left. Probably around 11:30 pm or so, one guy from BC Hydro came and checked our oven.. and he found out problem very quick... "Oh, its pilot lit pipe is clogged. but this oven itself is just very old as well. So either you clean all pipes or replace it."

So I called Landlord/owner "K" to do so... and she said "ok, I will replace it soon."
Yes, it took for a while how SOON that is going to be.

NOVEMBER
Yes, we waited probably for 2,3 weeks.. but she didn't tell us after that happened. Actually, gas smell was gone because he cleaned a bit..but still we were afraid of when gas is just going to leak all the time. Nothing happened in October, then November Rent collecting day... (2 days before 1st of the month), I asked K if she is working on it or forgot about it.

Of course, people wouldn't say "oh, I forgot about it, I will work on it soon" but she said "yes yes, I know. I asked City inspector to come to check the house." so yeah, I was like.. ok, i guess that is better than nothing.

Yeah, she said in November... but 2 days before December 1st...
She called me that she was collecting rents soon.

I asked her what is happening right now and she told me "Oh, December 12th, they will come check all house...then they are going to check gas oven again."

Yeah.. that was a start of our looong fight....


To be continued...