“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.
Are you shure
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.
And nerves are super expensive..
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.
I would remind them that I can upload a review in social media about their attitude against their clients. Buildings should be clean and it is their responsibility to keep it neat.
First of all, your desire to stay in your rented apartment or to leave it is determinative. If you really like your apartment but not the building’s environment, you can continue paying rent by signing an annual contract; however, in this case, you should find a way to cope with the pig sty at the building’s entrance, even though some employees from the rental agency have given a harsh answer to your reasonable request. You can be demanding and deal with their unaccountability. If plan A doesn’t work, you can resort to plan B, especially when the entrance is truly filthy and creates a mess in the apartment building.
If I knew any media person or people who work in television or newspapers in this area, I would ask them to report on this corridor.
they confronted you in a bad and low way.
I would talk to some neighbors about what they think about it. If they agree. I would feel stronger. Gathering together and take a day when you clean it up together. If it still stays in a bad way. You can write notices hallway for all concerns keep things out off the elevator and do not toss cigarettes here. Risky- can cause fire
. If you’d like to stay there, despite that, you must agree with the other residents to pay for the cleaning service yourselves.
I would never stay in such an atmosphere
You can always find a better place to live.
You can move to another apartment, but that doesn’t guarantee that it will be better. You have to solve a problem that doesn’t depend only on you. I think you should try to involve all the people interested in it.Try to discuss and motivate your neighbors to keep the entrance clean together. Even if someone is cleaning it, it’s important that others keep it clean too.
When they raiseed a rent I think it would be good to refer on filthy in entrance area of building. Maybe would be good ask them within inovated or did something new in building ? Otherwise you are moving out. Such a small tactic. ( I dont know if is word tactic right…?)
It’s not an answer from the agency, it’s your choice, but live in a place filthy is not nice, for me impossible. In your situation i try to find something in the neighbourhood and move.
I would be TOUGH NEGOTIATORS!
What does your rental contract say?
If it says that the cleaning is at your expense…. then no other solution than to clean yourself.
If this is not the case, then he must carry out the cleaning.
If you do not wish to move, you must respect the cpntrat or have it respected!