Help sought with evil landlord, bee situation

Loopz · Jun 4, 2005

My friends and I just signed a one year lease on a 3-bedroom house for June. When I went over there earlier this week to get the keys from the previous tenant, I noticed this strange buzzing noise coming from my right. I look over, and notice this massive beehive dangling from the outcropping of the roof, something that obviously WASN'T there when I looked the house over a week earlier. I got the keys from the old tenant, asked him about it, he says, "Oh I think they just showed up." I call my landlord, who calls a local bee hunter to wipe them out. He destroys the hive, killing the queen, but it's a week later and there's still a shitload of angry bees buzzing around the front of the place, making it impossible for us to even move in yet. I call my landlord and she tells me to get the beekeeper out there to kill the remaining bees for FREE. I call the beekeeper and he says any further work will cost us. I'm quite pissed, because I feel like my landlord is being a total cheap-ass, especially given that she just got $1800 of our money (first month's rent and deposit). WTF can I do here? Anyone here got any battle experience with shady landlords?

TonK · Jun 4, 2005

I'm being honest...

Put your next months rent in escrow and call the Health Department...

Serious advice.

galfordo · Jun 4, 2005

Maybe you can ask the law school guys about this, but I think you've got legal grounds to get your money back, and at the very least refuse rent.

In every leasing agreement, landlords are required to maintain a domicile that is habitable, and I'm quite certain that bees buzzing around the place is considered an obstacle to habitability. wasabi mentioned this to me when I was having problems with neighbors at my place.

I definitely wouldn't give the bitch any more cash until it gets settled. That's ridiculous.

neo_X7 · Jun 4, 2005

Loopz said:
My friends and I just signed a one year lease on a 3-bedroom house for June. When I went over there earlier this week to get the keys from the previous tenant, I noticed this strange buzzing noise coming from my right. I look over, and notice this massive beehive dangling from the outcropping of the roof, something that obviously WASN'T there when I looked the house over a week earlier. I got the keys from the old tenant, asked him about it, he says, "Oh I think they just showed up." I call my landlord, who calls a local bee hunter to wipe them out. He destroys the hive, killing the queen, but it's a week later and there's still a shitload of angry bees buzzing around the front of the place, making it impossible for us to even move in yet. I call my landlord and she tells me to get the beekeeper out there to kill the remaining bees for FREE. I call the beekeeper and he says any further work will cost us. I'm quite pissed, because I feel like my landlord is being a total cheap-ass, especially given that she just got $1800 of our money (first month's rent and deposit). WTF can I do here? Anyone here got any battle experience with shady landlords?

It sounds like you landlord is a dumbass for calling a beekeeper in the first place. A professional exterminator would have coast half of what the beekeeper charged, and he would have sprayed the hive with poison killing every bee in a mater of seconds. Your best is to use advice that TonK gave, in calling the heath department.

Loopz · Jun 4, 2005

neo_X7 said:
It sounds like you landlord is a dumbass for calling a beekeeper in the first place. A professional exterminator would have coast half of what the beekeeper charged, and he would have sprayed the hive with poison killing every bee in a mater of seconds. Your best is to use advice that TonK gave, in calling the heath department.

No, it actually was an exterminator (who happens to specialize in bees, since we have the Africanized variety here). I only used the word beekeeper in the loosest sense, since I want the guy to KEEP the bees the FUCK away from us.

gamejunkie · Jun 4, 2005

Loopz said:
No, it actually was an exterminator (who happens to specialize in bees, since we have the Africanized variety here). I only used the word beekeeper in the loosest sense, since I want the guy to KEEP the bees the FUCK away from us.

Man if they're African I wouldn't anywhere near the house. Have you seen those made for tv movies?

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