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Voting Question: ATTN Rental Property Owners. Need to get tenant to vacate etc…?
I received a letter from the city of Cincinnati, Div of property maintenance code enforcement that repairs needed to be done to a house that I have been renting to another party for the last ten years.
In order to simplify my question, I am just going to copy paste my letter to the City inspector because that does give all the information about what is going on.
My question is:

What do I do?
1: I need to foreclose the house. I have my own house that I am living in and dont want to ruin my credit.
CitiMortgage Columbus oh is the lending bank.
2: I dont want more problems from the tenant. I just want her to understand and then leave so I can board up the house and let the bank have it.
3: How can I minimize the problems with the tenant without opening myself up further for problems?

Here is the letter that is pending sending to the City inspector.
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Dear Sir,

I want to follow up on our phone conversation and give you additional information as you seem to be a very nice and understanding gentleman. I truly appreciate your working with me regarding the house on 2521 Luckey. I was surprised that you were open and understanding contrary to what I expected.

Please let me give you the facts and the history of how I came to rent to Denise and our agreements as things progressed.

The first thing you need to keep in mind is that I spend much of my retirement money making sure the house on 2521 Luckey Avenue was in perfect condition prior to renting it out. Then I landed a job in Columbus and had to move ASAP and rented it to Denise until I could sell it or figure out what to do. She loved the house and wanted to purchase it as soon as her credit would allow and I agreed to not sell it and not raise the rent if she would maintain it and fix problems as they go. Denise and I made a verbal agreement beforie she started renting the house that she would maintain the house like someone who was going to purchase it.

Before Denise began renting the house while I was living in the house, I had installed Champion lifetime windows at a cost of $5,000, a new furnace, painted the house and had the bathroom remodeled. The house was in excellent condition.

Sir, my point is the house payment there is $450.00and her rent is $400.00. That is hardly worth the aggravation to bother with renting it other than accommodating someone desirous of taking custody of the property. To that end I rented the property.

In the ten years that she has rented I never raised the rent per our agreement that she could afford any maintenance the property would need without my intervention. I have never had interest to keep the property and rent it out as a landlord and did not want that type of responsibility. Our agreement included that I would not act as a standard landlord and invade her privacy as long as she maintained the house.

I am shocked that there is a mold problem in the basement now because we never had a problem with water as we had a dry baseement for the 10 years that I lived there. I used to have my gym in the basement. It was very usable and clean. I stored boxes down there. My three children had a play area there. The basement, even though not refinished with drywall, was very clean and used just as much as the main floor.

In short: She did not honor our agreement.

Despite what we agreed upon; a few years ago, she had problems with the furnace. She explained that she had a dire financial situation and did not have money to repair the furnace. Therefore I spent $1,800.00 to have a new furnace installed. At that time, I reiterated our initial agreement was that she will eventually purchase the house and that she will do all the upkeep on it. At that time, my thoughts were:, maybe I better sell, but I took her at her word and gave her the benefit of the doubt.

Now since I have received a notice about the house being in disrepair so bad it needs condemned I realized that I should not have put off selling the house. I cannot afford to fix it therefore, I sent a letter to my mortgage company indicating my situation and asked for help to surrender the house without ruining my credit.

Since she does not have a smoke alarm and that is just an simple install, and a necessity, I ask my brother in law to do that. I see the first paragraph on your inspection worksheet requires an approved contractor of the city and a permit to do the some of the work. Not being sure which qualifies as needing a certified contractor and a permit and which can be done without a certified contractor and permit I hope there is not a problem with my brother-in-law installing a smoke alarm.

Thank you for your understanding,

me

Note: This is a very dire matter for me if you read that entire letter. If you do have knowledge in this field, I will add you up if you want to discuss it further.
OK, I seen many bad things that people said about how stupid I am. I realize that now. But I am an honest man and just want some good news and a way out of this mess. Does any of you have that? PLEASE?
Those of you who draw conclusions…. This is not a ex or freind or nothing. Just a person that I didnt know and rented to. Trusted.

No personal ties whatsoever…….
THANK YOU!! ALL FOR YOUR ANSWERS…….. But… I still dont have a solution….. Does anyone have that????????

Wahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Resolved Question: Why does OSHA still even exist?
I’ll tell you my experience with OSHA. As far as I am concerned OSHA should not even exist anymore, it is a waste of taxpayer’s money.
A few months back I called OSHA’s main office in Puerto Rico to denounce the dangerous practices and working environment existent in my workplace. I called OSHA because after following the procedures to correct problems laid out by the company I work for, and trying to get them corrected, I was targeted and was victim of many attacks and discrimination. After 2 years of trying to get the workplace to comply, what I only got was an organized and persistent mobbing attack on my person and my reputation.
The first time I called OSHA I explained my complains on the phone, and after 3 more calls I was told that I was speaking to the wrong person. She gave me a number to call as I was told that because of the location of my workplace, it belong to a different office. During all of those conversations it seemed to me that the there was a lot of emphasis made on if I was sure I wanted to make the complains official.
I personally visited the area office and made my complaints, which were the following:
a high in various areas
_The presence of great quantities of toxic mold and mildew in various areas of the AC system, contaminating public and back of the house areas, this was accompanied with pictures and much documentation generated during the past couple of years from my contacts with the responsible parties.
_The dangerous practice of misuse of ladders in an area where there was a t least a 20′ fall.
_The requirement of some of us to change parts and/or repair electric appliances, replace outlets and perform other types of electrical work prohibited by law if not certified. Also reported that there was not a certified electrician in property.
_The negation of the employer to provide steel toe boots as part of the safety equipment required by law.
_Discrimination, targeting and mobbing against my person.
OSHA did take my complains and seemed to be working on investigating the problems. I was told that the inspection and safety issues would be handled by them but the discrimination allegations would bee reffered to their main office and they would get in touch with me.
Time went by and I heard through the grapevine that OSHA was conducting an investigation. I never seen nor was I interviewed by anyone, furthermore one day when I was working I saw the procedure implanted by the department head for OSHA’s interviews. Which was as follows:
The interviewer was taken to an office while in the shop the director gathered the ones to be interviewed one by one in a clear intimidation practice, he stayed there all of the time until the interviews were finish. So the ones interviewed were under a lot of pressure not to speak and only the ones that the director hand picked were called, not me of course.
I had a coworker approach me and tell me that the investigator from OSHA was telling the director what to write in the safety equipment requirements so he would not be obligated to provide the steel toe boots. It is very curious that in the report sent to me by OSHA it says that they were not obligated to provide us with the boots and that they were not required, but in the same report it says that during inspection they noticed the “deficiency” of the employer not providing steel toe boots to the employees…???? According to the same report it is determined that employees that handle equipment or parts weighting between 25 and 110 lbs need to be assigned a pair of steel toe boots. In a recent job description which I posses the employer clearly has as a requirement for other positions the same weight loads as the ones that OSHA protected, why not the others? is it because I reported it?
It is interesting that from the original complain of the areas with mold, mildew, humidity problems they were all reduced to 1 area that is the one that figures in the report. And of course there was no evidence of discrimination, at least not found in the whole 2 weeks that was given to the investigator, who had to split herself into three to comply with the deadlines set by law.
Not to extend this post to unreadable lenghts let me summarize with the following. OSHA seems to work for the employers, even though they say that they take an inpartial stand it is very clear to me, that did not happen in my case.
The result from all of these is that I am operationally out of a job (is just a matter of time), my health has suffered, and anybody that ever thought of complaining or reporting issues to OSHA will just not do it.
I suggest that OSHA is taken out of the government’s payroll and be transfered to the corporations public relations department. It is important that the laws in the workplace are respected or we will continue to see principles and money go out the window as it is very clearly occurring in the financial world, don not think that all of this things are not related, it is called impu

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Resolved Question: Question about mold, codes and poor home inspection - long question?
My husband and I purchased a foreclosure in Virginia. We had an ASHI certified inspector come in pre-sale to determine if there were any major issues. Most of what the inspector found was stuff we already had figured out. In any event, I found out yesterday that my basement has mold and it could be toxigenic mold. We have only lived in the house 7 weeks. The source of the mold is a basement bathroom shower that the inspector said was “dirty”. Moisture seeped from that shower into 2 surrounding walls. On the advice of the plumber who came in, we have not used the bathroom or cleaned it since moving in because the plumber suspected mold and advised against doing anything to it until it was confirmed. Plus, the bathroom was not up to code. This was a week after closing. According to the person who came in to test for the mold, it had been building up there a long time (i.e., months, if not years) and an inspector should have told me it was a) still damp and b) should have recommended a mold inspection to be on the safe side. Actually, what he said was our inspector was an idiot and should have known it was mold. In addition, after we purchased the home and were having the recommended repairs done, I had a plumber and an electrician confirm that there were at least 3 rooms in the house that were not up to code and potentially hazardous and pointed out things the inspector should have caught. What is the point of the home inspector if they can’t tell you these things? Do I have any recourse? Anyone ever had this problem before? We have already spent $15,000 just to fix what we already knew about. We are now faced with 2 bathroom remodels, a partial kitchen remodel (the mold spread) and partial basement reconstruction. Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated. If I have legal recourse, recommendations on that would be appreciated as well. Thank you!
My issues are primarily with the home inspector. The bank sold the house “as is” which we were okay with because we were hiring a home inspector to determine what issues the home had. Based on the report, we made the decision to purchase the home because nothing major was found. Had we known about the rooms not being to code, safety issues and mold/health issues, we would never have gone ahead with the sale. It’s the inspector I’ve got the issues with. Thanks so much for all your input!

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