10.08.2006
We didn't get that - WHAT DID YOU SAY?
What's new you may ask - if you've been checking out this blog - and we know several people have....you are probably asking what's new?
Well one of the most striking things was that the alleged owner of the building came over and while talking with at least 6 of the tenants who belong to our newly formed tenants assoc. - actually mentioned something about matches and gasoline - and "why not just burn it down?".
This coupled with the fact that one of the tenants here has woken up @ 2:30am to the smell of lighter fluid. While other tenants have experienced a strong gas smell in the elevator (AFTER THE FACT - not before) makes us all a little nervous. So someone mentions burning a building down - and then you smell lighter fluid @ 2am...would probably make people very suspicious.
It made more than 5 of us nervous - so we called the LAPD and filed an incident report (for those of you really interested #9A79) stating what we heard and what's been going on here lately. It never hurts to let someone know that the owner said something so drastic to more than one person....I mean sure one person hears it, whatever. Four people hear it.....then you really can't let it go.
Other than that - things still are not fixed around here. Even though as a group we met with the alleged owner and he claimed he would start fixing things right away. We were not shocked when there was no movement made after that. Recently though there has been some interest in this building, primarily by the state (health,building safety,rent stabilization, and many more) - we have spoken with them and they have come out to visit more than one tenant here.
Funny fact for the day - Rent Stabilization has received more than 6 complaints alone in the month of September from separate individual people and one in October. Yes - on this building alone.
The owners of this building don't appear to be concerned with their liability if people get injured while on the premises. Mainly because the pregnant woman on the first floor fell down the stairs Friday night after the police left. She fell because there was no lighting on the stairs; which she was promised would be fixed. Now doesn't this seem like something that is easily repairable - after all it's light bulbs. How hard can it be to screw in a light bulb?
In closing please feel free to comment - we love to hear from you!
Well one of the most striking things was that the alleged owner of the building came over and while talking with at least 6 of the tenants who belong to our newly formed tenants assoc. - actually mentioned something about matches and gasoline - and "why not just burn it down?".
This coupled with the fact that one of the tenants here has woken up @ 2:30am to the smell of lighter fluid. While other tenants have experienced a strong gas smell in the elevator (AFTER THE FACT - not before) makes us all a little nervous. So someone mentions burning a building down - and then you smell lighter fluid @ 2am...would probably make people very suspicious.
It made more than 5 of us nervous - so we called the LAPD and filed an incident report (for those of you really interested #9A79) stating what we heard and what's been going on here lately. It never hurts to let someone know that the owner said something so drastic to more than one person....I mean sure one person hears it, whatever. Four people hear it.....then you really can't let it go.
Other than that - things still are not fixed around here. Even though as a group we met with the alleged owner and he claimed he would start fixing things right away. We were not shocked when there was no movement made after that. Recently though there has been some interest in this building, primarily by the state (health,building safety,rent stabilization, and many more) - we have spoken with them and they have come out to visit more than one tenant here.
Funny fact for the day - Rent Stabilization has received more than 6 complaints alone in the month of September from separate individual people and one in October. Yes - on this building alone.
The owners of this building don't appear to be concerned with their liability if people get injured while on the premises. Mainly because the pregnant woman on the first floor fell down the stairs Friday night after the police left. She fell because there was no lighting on the stairs; which she was promised would be fixed. Now doesn't this seem like something that is easily repairable - after all it's light bulbs. How hard can it be to screw in a light bulb?
In closing please feel free to comment - we love to hear from you!
