Okay ... so here's the situation .. my landlords are new, they bought the building in December 2007 and as soon as they bought it they started renovating the other half of the building -- to eventually open it as a convenience store. They are doing most of the work themselves, with friends, after/before hours and on weekends. I cant exactly fault them for this, but it has been going on for nearly FOUR MONTHS now .. waking up on a Sunday morning at 7am to some construction guy shouting "Holy fucking shit!" is not pleasant... the fact that there was no insulation between the two units, so I could hear every nail being driven in and every turn of the sander... and that now that they have insulation, I can still hear voices loud enough to make out 80% of the words.... the owner himself is a smoker (and I am not) and he continually smokes on the job and my entire apartment fills up with smoke -- nothing like coming home after a LONG day and dropping onto my bed, only to have my pillow reek of cigarette smoke and totally repulse me. I've gone through boxes of anti-histamines trying to counter-balance the ick .. and my headaches almost never go away. My four year old daughter is just as irritated by this all. I have been very polite in my requests about them not smoking inside and they still do it -- or they stand at the front door with the door open so that the wind blows the smoke right back into my place. Often they are even pounding away until 10 or 11 at night. A couple times they've had a buzz-saw outside in front of my daughter's bedroom window going until 10:30pm. I know construction happens, even in residential settings.. but this has been going on and on and on and on -- someone needs to call Holmes on Homes or some shit!!! Its just a single room convenience store, about the size of two living rooms -- and it WAS a convenience store before, they're just remodeling .. WTF can possibly take so long?!
I've just given my two months notice, and now they're doing all of it TWICE as bad......
So! The purpose of this email is to seek imaginative solutions to my desire for retribution. My quality of life has been shot to shit for four months and my landlords could care less. Does any one have any lists/tips on legal ways to trash your apartment before you leave? .. like.. whats that man-made form of skunk odor that they used on Myth Busters ... if I dump that under the kitchen sink and the bathroom sink .. can anyone actually prove it?? That's all I can come up with off the top of my head... but I invite anyone/everyone to dream up their worst -- and then to come up with something practical :)
My landlords have been pissing me off for tooooo long.. they deserve whatever is coming to them ... but I don't wanna get charged or have to pay for any damages, so keep that in mind!!! :)
