Payment in pennies as a big F U

[Mtowncyclone13]

It's a pretty un-sexy story;

The heat pump in my space hasn't worked since I moved in. After seven calls in six months (followed by service calls) it hasn't worked consistently. I've worked roughly 30 days in 53-56 degree F temps and had to apologize to clients for the discomfort.

Now this doosher wants me to pay for the technicians inability to fix the g**d***ed thing. The only thing that knocked down what I owe is a stipulation I added to the original lease stating a cap of $100.00 for such eventuality.

But that's horse****. The right thing to do is apologize and eat the cost of HIS ****ed up heat pump.

did you write a letter to the landlord and copy it to the city rental inspectors? they won't get involved unless they have a written complaint and then they will give the landlord X days to fix it. if you didn't write to the city you didn't really do all that you could.... to be honest

 

[WooBadger18]

You could over pay him a small amount. Then go back and demand he refund that small amount. And make him write you a check for the refund. Then never cash it so his ledger is always messed up.

Or wait for a long time to cash it. Then it will mess him up for a while, and then mess him up again when you do end up cashing it.

 

[weR138]

did you write a letter to the landlord and copy it to the city rental inspectors? they won't get involved unless they have a written complaint and then they will give the landlord X days to fix it. if you didn't write to the city you didn't really do all that you could.... to be honest

The unit has been "fixed" half a dozen times in six months.

The issue isn't timely repair, it's consistent operation. Your magic letter would do **** for me because by the time the city saw it the landlord would have a crew "working" on it. It would get a band-aid and crap out later. Six "repairs", two days to get a crew there, one day ***ing with it, the day after it's fixed I come in and it's 53 degrees, I call and they tell me to "turn it off and back on" (no ****). No heat that day until mid-afternoon. That's four days x six times = 24 cold days. Add cold weekends and days I had to "re-boot" it after a day I had to re-boot it and I'm at a MONTH of cold days.

So I'd had enough last week and asked for a break on rent. The response was a bill.

EDIT: My business partner and I began crafting a letter regarding this cluster-**** today...

POST EDIT: I mentioned seven calls in my previous post. Yeah, there was one last week. Currently I have heat *crossing fingers*

 

[00clone]

Another possibility...every time you have an issue, plan on stopping by the next day to 'follow up'...immediately begin bingeing on bean soup, mexican food, and cheap beer.

-insist on a 'closed door' meeting
-just before leaving, ask to use the bathroom

between the chemical warfare in the office and the total destruction of his bathroom, he will begin to feel the pain.

 

[Cyclones01]

Under no circumstances would I pay that. That's ********

 

[mkadl]

The banker is who your screwing.

I would contend that would be part of a banks customer service.

 

[MeanDean]

If you do the multiple checks with random amounts make sure you put clever notes in the memo line, like

Sex with (Landlord Name's) wife
BJ from Landlord"
Bribe for storing murder victim bodies

Another thing I did once when I had a lowlife who wouldn't pay what was due me. I collected all those postcards out of miscellaneous magazines and would fill them out to send him while traveling (on airplanes, etc). I loved the ones with "Best time to call" I would put "1 AM - I work second shift please don't call during the day."

 

[TXCyclones]

Don't pay it. It will not go to collections. Even on the off-chance he does try to be a doucher and send it to collections, just refute it w/ the letter you're crafting. If you pay it to collections at some point he will only get 1/2. And, if he does threaten collections just file a report to Better Business Bureau against him. He will have to go to efforts to have that removed.

 

[colbycheese]

Don't pay it. It will not go to collections. Even on the off-chance he does try to be a doucher and send it to collections, just refute it w/ the letter you're crafting. If you pay it to collections at some point he will only get 1/2. And, if he does threaten collections just file a report to Better Business Bureau against him. He will have to go to efforts to have that removed.

Or just go the the BBB right now, explain the situation and that they won't let you out of the contract despite their inability to maintain a heat pump.

 

[CykoAGR]

Cant believe no one has said this yet: Kick him in the nuts, then eff his wife and then turn him in to the BBB.

Edit: And if you decide to pay him

#1 get the pennies
#2 crap in a bag
#3 dump in pennies
#4 blend
#5 repeat steps #2 & #4 if needed

 

[19210]

Had a friend who's dad would always give him two dollar bills for whatever occasion. One night we end up at a dance competition/modeling show some call it a gentlemen's club (tomato/tomatoe). Anyway, my friend tipped one of the competitors a $2 bill and she was caught off guard and said hey you wouldn't happen to know so and so would you? He was like yeah that's my dad. Classic.

 

[TXCyclones]

Please ignore the suggestions to **** in a bag, envelope, or whatever. Highly illegal and they will prosecute you for this. They frown on this these days. They've taken the fun out of everything.

 

[Entropy]

The only option is to make him do math.

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[ricochet]

If you are going to write a check I don't believe there is anything magical about small rectangular pieces of paper. I think anything with the necessary information (name, account number, amount, etc.) written on it can be used for payment.

 

[CYdTracked]

How in the hell do you have to pay for the landlord not providing acceptable conditions? Doesn't make sense at all, if you rent and part of the space you rent has a problem that you did not cause and has to be fixed that is at the landlord's expense regardless what it cost him. What if the heating unit went out completely? Would he charge you for that too?

For $100 I say test him and refuse to pay it. Find the wording in your rent agreement and send him written notice that he cannot charge you for this under the terms of your agreement. If he tries to collect you can contest it and chances are for $100 no on in their right mind is going to waste their time or if he's really stupid legal fees because it would cost him more in time and money to collect on it. Even threaten to take him to small claims court. Someone can't be that dumb to think it's worth it to show up in small claims over $100 that they probably don't have an open/shut case to win.

 

[BigM]

Hey now, those might be worth something someday. You can sell them to Alabama fans as mementos of the man that got their hated rival the death penalty.

​FIFY

 

[brother bob]

back in the late '80's (cough cough) I made a stupid wager with a hok-i-homer and of course lost the bet, so I paid him $20 in pennies. he won't bet with me anymore...wonder why?

 

[jaretac]

I'm a landlord and I love this thread.

Checks would be the worst. Change you just have to wrestle it to a bank that has a automatic counter and it will take 2 minutes. With checks you have to endorse and fill in a deposit slip for. if he is small time, he probably will have to endorse by signing the back (insert seinfeld clip). Even if he stamps it, it will still take a while. Then you have to do odd amounts. If they are all the same the record keeping will be easier.

Last point about checks. If he is a bigger company, he probably has to document each check as a separate transaction. I have to do this, each check has to be recorded separately from the rest.

 

[cedarstrip]

Better start hoarding pennies if you want to do this in the future!

 

[AllInForISU]

Better start hoarding pennies if you want to do this in the future!