Mailbox Issue
I have a three family brownstone, I live in the bottom apartment and rent out the top two. The mail for all three units is dropped in my downstairs gate by the mailman and I put the mail for the two tenants out in the secure hallway in unlocked boxes. My new tenant has an…
I have a three family brownstone, I live in the bottom apartment and rent out the top two. The mail for all three units is dropped in my downstairs gate by the mailman and I put the mail for the two tenants out in the secure hallway in unlocked boxes. My new tenant has an issue with not having his own locked mailbox and with me touching his mail. Am I legally obligated to install and give him his own locked mailbox? I think there are maybe two 3-family buildings on my block with those ugly silver units with separate locks, everyone else does it the way we do. Anyone?
By the way, how good is this “really good deal” and when you kick him out, can I have the place? Where is it? I’m a very nice tenant.
Posted by: tybur6 at September 30, 2009 10:02 AM
Yaeh, LOL, check out his post in the boiler thread. Complaining about the lack of decorative murals in the basement. LOL 🙂
“Once all the deal breakers got sorted out and the lease was signed, I would bring up any “something else” issues (with the understanding that I might not get what I wanted).”
Exactly. Case closed.
As for the fruitflies, the tenant needs to eat fruit faster.
As for the spiders, they could eat the fruitflies.
As for the tenant, don’t give a new lease.
MM, tell us more about your tenant’s mail. 🙂
Just because he’s a jerk doesn’t mean you don’t have to provide a mailbox.
Put in the mailboxes!
My mailman tells me that the USPS policy is that they will NOT separate the mail in typical 1-3 family brownstones (or maybe 1-2) EVEN if they have a multi-unit box (which I had.) They’ll get really pissed if you insist, and I would not piss off a mailman!
What’s the bfg here? In10 years and 3 tenants, we get mail delivered sometimes up, sometimes down and we just separate it and put it in the other spot. Agreed, your tenant is too much. Get rid of him.
My tenants have the same mail delivery as you do, and no one has ever complained. Dave is right, as well, no one gets their mail above ground level on my block.
This tenant is my biggest fear – someone so picky about the little things that they make your life a living hell. Who wants those ugly mailboxes in the vestibule? Yuk. When I sort my tenant’s mail, I don’t look to see what they have, I could care less, unless they get packages from Terrorists R Us.
Also fruit flies are attracted to…..fruit. Being required to exterminate for that is like being responsible for a tenant getting cancer from smoking in your building. Is no one responsible for their own actions, or their care in leaving food out?
Seriously — does he know how lucky he is that he’s getting his mail at all? The postal service in this fair city is amazing in it’s inability to deliver mail.
But specifically to respond to this situation, tell him to go get a P.O. Box.
By the way, how good is this “really good deal” and when you kick him out, can I have the place? Where is it? I’m a very nice tenant.
Bottom line is that you’re stuck with an assh0le for a tenant and it sounds like it’s likely to get worse. If he becomes conditioned to think you’re going to jump everytime he pushes your button, that’s a bad situation. Cut him off at the ….
vinca…on my neighborhood I don’t think the mail delivery person would climb the steps to the parlour level.
Every house (at least the two families) gets it through the gate under the stoop.