“Your room looks like a pig sty!”
Sooner or later, every teenage American boy hears his mother say that about his room.
A pig sty is where pigs live.
I’ve never visited a pig sty.
But I imagine they’re a mess.
Now here’s why I’m thinking about pig sties today…
TOUGH NEGOTIATORS
I’m about to renew my rental contract for my apartment.
And like last year, they’re raising the rent again.
So I thought it would be a good time to ask them to clean the entrance area of the building.
It’s really filthy.
Trash in the elevator. Dirt on the walls. Cobwebs on the ceiling. A cigarette butt on the stairs….
They said they do clean it.
And if I don’t like it, I can move out.
But I don’t want to move out!
What would you do?
If they’re so rude, I might move out. There are probably other options in the area.
Perhaps your apartment is very well located?And if I understood correctly, it also has a terrace, which must be very pleasant in good weather…And you like your apartment and it seems to be very comfortable. However, the real estate agency does seem rather careless…if only leaving you without heating in the middle of winter for several days! And indeed, they are quite improper in the way they responded to the lack of maintenance of the common areas….Of course, I’m not in your position, but I would look to see wether there might be another opportunity in the neighborhood with better amenities…You know, advice only commits those who give it! Best of luck with this decision
You’re right to ask them to clean the mess especially if they’re just raised the rental money, but I never thought these things are possible in a city like Prague….
In Germany, you can reduce your rent proportionately per day if the heating doesn’t work for several days and the hallway is dirty, provided you don’t have to clean it yourself.
I have to laugh. thousand crowns is not to much, it’s 42€. If you won’t move in a new apartment, you have to clean by yourself. If you offer to clean the entrance, maybe you won’t get a rent increase. I think Prague is not the ultra modern city. I have never been there. But in 2022 I have been in Sachsen/Oberwiesenthal. Czech is nearby. The buildings/houses I have seen in Czech were absolutely not my taste. maybe it is different in Prague. I live in Hungary to rented a flat from a swiss man. I pay monthly 725 € for 100 qm. Expensive for Hungary. But in Budapest is it more expensive. The most people here bought houses. by the way, as my son was a teenage, he lived in his own pig sty. – smile -.
It is very ungrateful to advise others when you don’t have enough facts about the subject you’re advising on. Maybe you should ask someone in higher management at the rental agency. Usually, there are some departments for complaints.
There may also be an organisation in Prague that deals with consumer protection or a forum on local social networks that shares information on this topic. All that takes nerves and time.
If the rent is higher every year, if they don’t make any effort with the cleaning in the entrance hall, if they have no manners, I understand you’re getting irritated.
You could take it as an opportunity to fire them, you could gently start having a look nearby, if you like the area… Sometimes ” life has good surprises in store for us”. Maybe it’s the good moment for you to fire them, maybe you will find a better place and then think” I should have done it earlier”. … a box of chocolate… you never know what you gonna get 🙂
I wouldn’t notice all dirty things around me, finally how long do you stay in that entrance area?
I would clean it up by myself. It´s better do so than having bad feelings every day than you pass there. You get so much bad energy of it.
Love it, change it or leave it ;-). If you’d like to stay there, it appears that you have to get accustomed to the yearly raise in rent (which I wouldn’t like, too). Likely you don’t want to expand the period to a two-years contract – that could avoid this raise. Or anyway, no chance for negotiations? Related to the dirt – any neighbors in the house which share your feelings about that. And could also complain? I likely would clean up that filthy mess, and – as the landlord seems to be very money-oriented – look for a better place.