Landlord texting me after 11pm at night

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After telling you specifically that she did not want you to have a dog on the property, your landlord got a complaint from the HOA about a nuisance dog associated with YOU and her property. Now your landlord has to resolve this complaint - talk about an inconvenience! And before she can do that she needs to verify what you are telling her. That means that she has to take her time to come to her property and make sure that there is no nuisance dog hanging out on it - talk about at inconvenience!

Regardless of whether or not you and your boyfriend kept the dog in the back of the truck the whole time your landlord got a complaint about a nuisance dog being brought into the complex by her tenant - YOU. Why would someone go through the trouble of complaining about the dog if there was no reason to complain? None of this is your landlord's fault. She texted you at 11pm because she wanted to try to resolve this as fast as possible the next day. And I can't blame her.

This could have waited till the following morning.....again, some people DO NOT STAY UP past 9 PM, even on a weekend.

Which is why she *texted* instead of called Op. It was Op's choice to read her text messages, clearly she was awake. And now she has a heads up that the landlord will be paying a visit.

You are missing the point.
If I was sleeping, in a deep sleep no less, and heard a beep, and it was a text (regardless who it is from), I would not be happy. Sure, the person has a choice to read it, but I don't keep the preview pane up (meaning I just see the numbers/contact name) and nothing more on the home screen.

Does the 24 hour notice have to be on the lease, or is this "common knowledge"?

[Anonymous]

I had to look up "dog box". Jeebus. I couldn't tell what it is and there are about two pages of "dog box in a pickup truck".

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After telling you specifically that she did not want you to have a dog on the property, your landlord got a complaint from the HOA about a nuisance dog associated with YOU and her property. Now your landlord has to resolve this complaint - talk about an inconvenience! And before she can do that she needs to verify what you are telling her. That means that she has to take her time to come to her property and make sure that there is no nuisance dog hanging out on it - talk about at inconvenience!

Regardless of whether or not you and your boyfriend kept the dog in the back of the truck the whole time your landlord got a complaint about a nuisance dog being brought into the complex by her tenant - YOU. Why would someone go through the trouble of complaining about the dog if there was no reason to complain? None of this is your landlord's fault. She texted you at 11pm because she wanted to try to resolve this as fast as possible the next day. And I can't blame her.

This could have waited till the following morning.....again, some people DO NOT STAY UP past 9 PM, even on a weekend.

Which is why she *texted* instead of called Op. It was Op's choice to read her text messages, clearly she was awake. And now she has a heads up that the landlord will be paying a visit.

You are missing the point.
If I was sleeping, in a deep sleep no less, and heard a beep, and it was a text (regardless who it is from), I would not be happy. Sure, the person has a choice to read it, but I don't keep the preview pane up (meaning I just see the numbers/contact name) and nothing more on the home screen.

Does the 24 hour notice have to be on the lease, or is this "common knowledge"?

Are you old

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am a landlord and don't have time to communicate during business hours. (Of course if it's an emergency like water pipe or no ac I will)

I send email around 10-11pm. If I don't get a response in 24 hours I will text or call.

Not sure why people think that textual communications have a certain time period, I thought that texting / email was meant for any hours so that the recipient could respond at a convenient time.

Nope. A text will ping and make a loud noise, similar to a call.

The general protocol is not to text at an hour when you wouldnt call. Email is fine afterhours though

I guess an email would also wake the idiots who don't silent their phones at night

Simple way to resolve the e-mail issue, don't have every single e-mail pushed to your phone immediately! It kills your battery and data (unless you are on wi-fi or have unlimited data). There is a free program called Mozilla Thunderbird, download it, and sync your e-mail to it.

Cool story elder bro

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had to look up "dog box". Jeebus. I couldn't tell what it is and there are about two pages of "dog box in a pickup truck".

I was surprised it took so many posts before anyone mentioned that storing a dog like that is not the right thing to do. Those boxes are for transportation not all-day doggie storage.

The notice the landlord may have received, and warnings are not typical for something like that, may generically state "dog tied up outside" because they don't have a form for "dog left in undersized pen outside all day."

[Anonymous]

awful

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After telling you specifically that she did not want you to have a dog on the property, your landlord got a complaint from the HOA about a nuisance dog associated with YOU and her property. Now your landlord has to resolve this complaint - talk about an inconvenience! And before she can do that she needs to verify what you are telling her. That means that she has to take her time to come to her property and make sure that there is no nuisance dog hanging out on it - talk about at inconvenience!

Regardless of whether or not you and your boyfriend kept the dog in the back of the truck the whole time your landlord got a complaint about a nuisance dog being brought into the complex by her tenant - YOU. Why would someone go through the trouble of complaining about the dog if there was no reason to complain? None of this is your landlord's fault. She texted you at 11pm because she wanted to try to resolve this as fast as possible the next day. And I can't blame her.

This could have waited till the following morning.....again, some people DO NOT STAY UP past 9 PM, even on a weekend.

Which is why she *texted* instead of called Op. It was Op's choice to read her text messages, clearly she was awake. And now she has a heads up that the landlord will be paying a visit.

You are missing the point.
If I was sleeping, in a deep sleep no less, and heard a beep, and it was a text (regardless who it is from), I would not be happy. Sure, the person has a choice to read it, but I don't keep the preview pane up (meaning I just see the numbers/contact name) and nothing more on the home screen.

Does the 24 hour notice have to be on the lease, or is this "common knowledge"?

Are you old

I am a millennial and I would assume anyone who doesn't realize the distinction between texts and emails is old. Texts are not for business. Thinking they are sounds like something my grandparents or parents would do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:awful

+1 Shameful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After telling you specifically that she did not want you to have a dog on the property, your landlord got a complaint from the HOA about a nuisance dog associated with YOU and her property. Now your landlord has to resolve this complaint - talk about an inconvenience! And before she can do that she needs to verify what you are telling her. That means that she has to take her time to come to her property and make sure that there is no nuisance dog hanging out on it - talk about at inconvenience!

Regardless of whether or not you and your boyfriend kept the dog in the back of the truck the whole time your landlord got a complaint about a nuisance dog being brought into the complex by her tenant - YOU. Why would someone go through the trouble of complaining about the dog if there was no reason to complain? None of this is your landlord's fault. She texted you at 11pm because she wanted to try to resolve this as fast as possible the next day. And I can't blame her.

This could have waited till the following morning.....again, some people DO NOT STAY UP past 9 PM, even on a weekend.

Which is why she *texted* instead of called Op. It was Op's choice to read her text messages, clearly she was awake. And now she has a heads up that the landlord will be paying a visit.

You are missing the point.
If I was sleeping, in a deep sleep no less, and heard a beep, and it was a text (regardless who it is from), I would not be happy. Sure, the person has a choice to read it, but I don't keep the preview pane up (meaning I just see the numbers/contact name) and nothing more on the home screen.

Does the 24 hour notice have to be on the lease, or is this "common knowledge"?

Put the phone on the kitchen counter and you will sleep through those little beeps. If there is a real emergency/if someone *needs* to get a hold of you right then/right there they will call you and will hear the phone ringing. Op's landlord simply needed to notify the Op that there was a problem. Op's landlord has no control over whether or not Op monitors and sleeps with her phone all night.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After telling you specifically that she did not want you to have a dog on the property, your landlord got a complaint from the HOA about a nuisance dog associated with YOU and her property. Now your landlord has to resolve this complaint - talk about an inconvenience! And before she can do that she needs to verify what you are telling her. That means that she has to take her time to come to her property and make sure that there is no nuisance dog hanging out on it - talk about at inconvenience!

Regardless of whether or not you and your boyfriend kept the dog in the back of the truck the whole time your landlord got a complaint about a nuisance dog being brought into the complex by her tenant - YOU. Why would someone go through the trouble of complaining about the dog if there was no reason to complain? None of this is your landlord's fault. She texted you at 11pm because she wanted to try to resolve this as fast as possible the next day. And I can't blame her.

This could have waited till the following morning.....again, some people DO NOT STAY UP past 9 PM, even on a weekend.

Which is why she *texted* instead of called Op. It was Op's choice to read her text messages, clearly she was awake. And now she has a heads up that the landlord will be paying a visit.

You are missing the point.
If I was sleeping, in a deep sleep no less, and heard a beep, and it was a text (regardless who it is from), I would not be happy. Sure, the person has a choice to read it, but I don't keep the preview pane up (meaning I just see the numbers/contact name) and nothing more on the home screen.

Does the 24 hour notice have to be on the lease, or is this "common knowledge"?

Are you old

I am a millennial and I would assume anyone who doesn't realize the distinction between texts and emails is old. Texts are not for business. Thinking they are sounds like something my grandparents or parents would do.

I am in my 30's, so, nope, not old.

Some of us go to work much earlier than others, hence why I do not stay up more often than not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here- he's brought his dog with him for a visit 3 times since January, so not a lot at all. Normally he will just leave her at home but there has been those 3 times where he's brought her along just so she's not left at home all day by himself. He is not living with him and his dog certainly isn't staying over. She's never been tied up outside or left to bark all day like the letter she got apparently stated. To the person talking about leaving the dog in her box in the "heat", he was here last Sunday with her and it was 72 degrees out so not hot at all. She's a really good dog and just chills in her dog box but the one rim last Sunday that she started to bark was when a UPS truck drove by. He immediately went out to have her stop and that was that.

Regarding my landlord texting me late, clearly it's 50/50 on whether people agree with me or not. I find it unprofessional to text me that late and in multiple texts, not just one. It's not just one long text being broken up into three....it's multiple texts that went like this....

"Hey ladies we got a fine in the mail claiming a dog was tied up and barking all day."
"Do either of you know what this is about?"
"Don't I need to fight it?"

Just not necessary at all. I took a previous PPs advice and texted her asking for a copy of the bylaws so I can know what those are. I also asked to see the fine/letter she got in the mail and she completely ignored that request and just said "I'll email you a copy of the bylaws". I'm going to assume she was overreacting on the fine and just wanted to see what was up regarding a dog around.

To the PPs questioning why I'm calling her crazy, I've lived here for 3 years now and I'm sorry but I think texting us at 11:30 at night saying "I want to see what's going on in the house, I'll be by tomorrow morning to check it out and I'll let myself in" is crazy. Because 1, she's not doing it the legal way and giving us 24 hours and 2, her husband had JUST been here a week prior fixing something and clearly could see that everything was fine in our house. Also, she has randomly texted us asking if we have hung curtains attached to the crown molding or asking us if we are using the garbage disposal correctly because "just a reminder, it's only a year old". Sorry but to me, it's all craziness.

Sorry if this has been answered already - but what is a "dog box"? Do you mean a crate?

I think perhaps if your complex doesn't allow dogs, then you aren't really helping your case by saying that the dog was locked up in a crate outside while your boyfriend was visiting. You still had a dog on the premises, and the dog was still causing a disturbance. Not a long one, not a very unreasonable one - but not the sort of thing that folks living in a complex that doesn't allow dogs would want to experience.

(As an animal lover, the idea of a dog being out in a crate in a truck in 72 degree weather - well, frankly I'd evict you over that.)


I don't think texting you at 11 pm constitutes "crazy." It may not be hours you prefer, and it's not a message you like, but it hardly constitutes "crazy." It sounds like this is a private individual renting out one unit, not a professional management company - so she's probably reaching out to you when she gets any free time, not during normal business hours.

And honestly, you can try passive aggressively not responding until whenever. But I'd be worried about making things worse.

Good luck resolving this. Maybe it's time to find a new place to live?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After telling you specifically that she did not want you to have a dog on the property, your landlord got a complaint from the HOA about a nuisance dog associated with YOU and her property. Now your landlord has to resolve this complaint - talk about an inconvenience! And before she can do that she needs to verify what you are telling her. That means that she has to take her time to come to her property and make sure that there is no nuisance dog hanging out on it - talk about at inconvenience!

Regardless of whether or not you and your boyfriend kept the dog in the back of the truck the whole time your landlord got a complaint about a nuisance dog being brought into the complex by her tenant - YOU. Why would someone go through the trouble of complaining about the dog if there was no reason to complain? None of this is your landlord's fault. She texted you at 11pm because she wanted to try to resolve this as fast as possible the next day. And I can't blame her.

This could have waited till the following morning.....again, some people DO NOT STAY UP past 9 PM, even on a weekend.

Which is why she *texted* instead of called Op. It was Op's choice to read her text messages, clearly she was awake. And now she has a heads up that the landlord will be paying a visit.

You are missing the point.
If I was sleeping, in a deep sleep no less, and heard a beep, and it was a text (regardless who it is from), I would not be happy. Sure, the person has a choice to read it, but I don't keep the preview pane up (meaning I just see the numbers/contact name) and nothing more on the home screen.

Does the 24 hour notice have to be on the lease, or is this "common knowledge"?

Are you old

I am a millennial and I would assume anyone who doesn't realize the distinction between texts and emails is old. Texts are not for business. Thinking they are sounds like something my grandparents or parents would do.

I guess this is where I get to be all, guess what, the world doesn't revolve around you - but guess what, the world doesn't revolve around you. Just because you prefer not texting with anyone other than friends doesn't mean the world has to bend to comply with your preferences.

My landlord texts me sometimes. It's never seemed like an outrageous thing to do. In fact, it's been downright effective communication.

I'm 42. He's about the same age. I guess if we were dealing with youngsters such as yourself we could try carrier pigeons.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here- he's brought his dog with him for a visit 3 times since January, so not a lot at all. Normally he will just leave her at home but there has been those 3 times where he's brought her along just so she's not left at home all day by himself. He is not living with him and his dog certainly isn't staying over. She's never been tied up outside or left to bark all day like the letter she got apparently stated. To the person talking about leaving the dog in her box in the "heat", he was here last Sunday with her and it was 72 degrees out so not hot at all. She's a really good dog and just chills in her dog box but the one rim last Sunday that she started to bark was when a UPS truck drove by. He immediately went out to have her stop and that was that.

Regarding my landlord texting me late, clearly it's 50/50 on whether people agree with me or not. I find it unprofessional to text me that late and in multiple texts, not just one. It's not just one long text being broken up into three....it's multiple texts that went like this....

"Hey ladies we got a fine in the mail claiming a dog was tied up and barking all day."
"Do either of you know what this is about?"
"Don't I need to fight it?"

Just not necessary at all. I took a previous PPs advice and texted her asking for a copy of the bylaws so I can know what those are. I also asked to see the fine/letter she got in the mail and she completely ignored that request and just said "I'll email you a copy of the bylaws". I'm going to assume she was overreacting on the fine and just wanted to see what was up regarding a dog around.

To the PPs questioning why I'm calling her crazy, I've lived here for 3 years now and I'm sorry but I think texting us at 11:30 at night saying "I want to see what's going on in the house, I'll be by tomorrow morning to check it out and I'll let myself in" is crazy. Because 1, she's not doing it the legal way and giving us 24 hours and 2, her husband had JUST been here a week prior fixing something and clearly could see that everything was fine in our house. Also, she has randomly texted us asking if we have hung curtains attached to the crown molding or asking us if we are using the garbage disposal correctly because "just a reminder, it's only a year old". Sorry but to me, it's all craziness.

Sorry if this has been answered already - but what is a "dog box"? Do you mean a crate?

I think perhaps if your complex doesn't allow dogs, then you aren't really helping your case by saying that the dog was locked up in a crate outside while your boyfriend was visiting. You still had a dog on the premises, and the dog was still causing a disturbance. Not a long one, not a very unreasonable one - but not the sort of thing that folks living in a complex that doesn't allow dogs would want to experience.

(As an animal lover, the idea of a dog being out in a crate in a truck in 72 degree weather - well, frankly I'd evict you over that.)


I don't think texting you at 11 pm constitutes "crazy." It may not be hours you prefer, and it's not a message you like, but it hardly constitutes "crazy." It sounds like this is a private individual renting out one unit, not a professional management company - so she's probably reaching out to you when she gets any free time, not during normal business hours.

And honestly, you can try passive aggressively not responding until whenever. But I'd be worried about making things worse.

Good luck resolving this. Maybe it's time to find a new place to live?

Op here- dogs are allowed in our neighborhood, my landlord has it as "dogs considered" in our lease but decided she didn't want us owning one. So no, it wasn't an issue that we had a dog in my neighborhood as they are allowed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I had to look up "dog box". Jeebus. I couldn't tell what it is and there are about two pages of "dog box in a pickup truck".

I was surprised it took so many posts before anyone mentioned that storing a dog like that is not the right thing to do. Those boxes are for transportation not all-day doggie storage.

The notice the landlord may have received, and warnings are not typical for something like that, may generically state "dog tied up outside" because they don't have a form for "dog left in undersized pen outside all day."

Op here- his dog is a lab so the box isn't that tiny at all. The box he has is more ventilated and also big enough for her to stand up in and turn around, etc.

Yes, they are made for transportation but as I stated before, she wasn't in it all day long.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:WTF is a regulated dog box??

It's a metal, open air dog box. It's illegal to keep your dog locked in your car but with this, it's not illegal. So if someone called the cops saying there is a dog "locked in a car" and the cops came and saw the dog box, there would be no issues.
It's completely vented so the dogs not suffocating in it.

Dog people call that a crate.

I would not leave my dog in an open-air crate/box in the back of a truck. The dog could still easily overheat, especially if there's no shade. Plus, it's not fun for the dog. Leave her at his house.

It is NOT a crate though. This is a $300+ dog box that was built to go in the bed of his truck. It's open air on all 4 sides and the top. It was 70 degrees last Sunday when he was here with her, she was fine. She had water and was completely fine. This post was not about the dog being in a dog box in a truck.

I understand that. However you also have to realize you are complaining about receiving texts after 11 PM because it's inconvenient. How do you think the dog feels about being stuffed in a crate for hours? Probably pretty damned inconvenienced, at the very least. Pick a place where the dog doesn't have to sit in a box while you two do - whatever. If the dog is out there at 11 PM in this box, all manner of critters can get into that truck bed and the dog is - stuck in a box. Assholes could get into the truck bed and torment the poor thing and the dog is - stuck in a box. Use your damned head.

Again, it's NOT all about YOU.

Op here- wtf are you even talking about? He was here from about 11am until 2pm with her and then came back later that night by himself. Where did I say the dog was in the box at 11pm barking? Also, I think you've watched too many movies if you are talking about "critters" getting her....