Landlord texting me after 11pm at night
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Anonymous
OK then you need to work with your landlord and the HOA like a mature adult, not get fixated on things like when she texts and calling her "crazy" for wanting to inspect her own property. Have some maturity. |
Anonymous
OP, it's not unusual for a landlord to want to walk through the house a couple times a year to make sure there are no maintenance items that needed attention, etc. She does need to give you at least a 24 hour notice though. But seriously, you need to calm the fluck down about the landlord. You are getting unreasonably worked up by things that seem to be pretty minor issues. Nothing that you've written here makes her seem "literally crazy." Annoying, perhaps. But some people are annoying. Welcome to life. |
Anonymous
Look at it from your landlord's view. She got a letter from the HOA with mention of the barking dog and potential fine (which she doesn't want to pay any more than you do). Your landlord had no clue what the situation was so she texted you to try to sort this all out and figure out what happened. She got your side of it and was careful to point out that just because she agrees that dogs should not be left outside barking does not mean that she is giving her permission to bring the dog inside the condo - which is how some renters might take it ("I brought the dog inside because YOU told me not to leave it outside barking!"). The landlord will likely talk to the HOA, explain to them what occurred with the dog and let them know that you deny leaving the dog outside barking unattended for long stretches. Hopefully that will be that. If you don't want to answer texts past a certain hour - Do Not answer them. |
Anonymous
| ^Also, your landlord wanted to let you know about this issue as soon as she could. Would you appreciate it if she waited and your boyfriend brought his dog over again and the HOA called animal control or jumped all over you in some other way? I'm doubting not. |
Anonymous
| Is the dog allowed in your lease? It sounds like it is your boyfriend's dog and it doesn't sound like your boyfriend is on the lease. If your boyfriend and his dog are not on the lease, she has every right to kick you out for both the dog and your boyfriend living at the house. Plus, if she's getting a letter from the HOA about the dog she also has a right to follow up whether the dog is on the lease or not. She also has a right to inspect the house several times a year with 24 hours notice. |
Anonymous
+1 I wouldn't have seen it till the next day anyway. Do you expect people to respond to texts right away? How odd. I don't keep my phone in the bedroom. |
Anonymous
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OP,
Your landlord may text at odd hours but her requests are reasonable. If she got a fine about the dog, she has to investigate. If you love living there, ask your boyfriend to leave his dog at home. (Also, dogs don't tend to bark "just once." It's ruff ruff, not ruff. I bet it barked until your BF got to the cage.) |
Anonymous
Reading is fundamental. |
Anonymous
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OP, you are killing your battery and data by having your e-mail hit your cell phone immediately. Secondly, since you said you have an iPhone, is your read receipt on? I have mine on, and if your landlord has an iPhone, they can see if you read it or not. If this were me, and I saw, delivered, instead of read 11:00 PM, I wouldn't text multiple times in a row. However, some phones (very few) come through in multiple texts if it is too long.
Read your lease, which you should have a copy of. See what it says about "visiting" unannounced. Everything has to be in writing, and again, if this were me, I would leave a message on your door (sorry, e-mail is not 100% reliable) if I had to come by. I have gone back and forth my apartment complex multiple times, and have got responses on weekend nights, as well as weeknights. So, the business hours theory doesn't work, but 11 PM is ridiculous. Unless it says on the lease, visitors are always aloud, but can't "live" there. I dated someone for a long time and was living in the basement of a house with 2 other people, and she stayed over multiple times without a problem. I stayed at her place multiple times, again without a problem. If the dog isn't aloud in the condo, I am not 100% certain you can leave outside all day/night. Again, read your lease. Have you been with your b/f long and has he brought his dog over before? |
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Um, OP? I want to be on your side, but first you type boyfriend was there ONE time and dog barked maybe once. Then you type well, she's here a bunch but not tied up and only barks 1-2 minutes at a time.
Why do I think you're minimizing what's going on here? If no dogs are allowed, and your boyfriend is staying at your place, his dog should not be kept outside. That's crazy. |
Anonymous
+1 the change in the story makes me suspicious. I bet the dog is out there a lot. Maybe the neighbors are concerned about the poor dog being left outside in a crate in the heat. Not to mention finding the barking annoying. |
Anonymous
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Why does your boyfriend bring his dog to your house at all? Why doesn't he leave her at home?
-- dog lover who would not leave my dog in a "dog box" (crate?) in a car |
Anonymous
| Yeah, the solution is simple. Boyfriend needs to leave his dog at his house. If he's staying over that often with you, he needs to find someone to watch his dog, or you stay at his house. |
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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. |
Anonymous
Ugh. Typed on my phone so sorry for the spelling mistakes. I meant "he is not living with ME"*** |