Open door concept
So I come home from work today to find my landlord's landlord (it's messed up) inside my place on the phone with someone. She eventually hangs up and come to me and says "Yeah, you know this door? *points to my bedroom door that I'm currently peering out of* it's going to get torn down asap".
To give you some background, I live in the living room of a 2 bedroom condo. The person I pay rent to lives in the master bedroom, and she sublets out the other bedroom and the living room that was converted into another bedroom. And by converted I mean it has a door in the previously open entrance. You can tell it wasn't apart of the original floor plan because of the shotty craftsmanship of the carpenter who did it, but it works. Worked.
A few weeks ago some of the building's official fix-it guys came into the room to replace the filter in the A/C unit. It just so happens that the A/C unit it in my "room", so they could not not notice the door. Apparently this door is a fire hazard, or not belonging to the 'open concept' of the condo layout, or something like that and it's against the rules of the building to have it there.
Paperwork was filed and a notice was sent to the owner of the place, and that's what prompted my landlord's landlord to come pay me a visit. My actual landlord is currently off in China for a month... Anyways, she says that she can hold off the destruction until possibly the end of the month, maybe, and she'll put up a little curtain for me, as she points to the little curtains on my other housemate's door (pinned outside of the real door) which are the Japanese style ones you see at sushi restaurants, which go about halfway down to the floor.
Other than the "curtains" I don't see anything happening to fix this. I've been thinking of moving out for a little while now, so this just expedites the process. My only concern is that it's not realistic for me to find a place before September (especially with CN), so It's going to have to be for October, which means I'll be living with a curtain as a door for a month. It's not all that bad I guess, I mean my housemate is actually pretty nice and I trust her, and there's still a lockable front door, but it will just make changing awkward.
What irks me the most though, was that the landlord admitted she was ENTIRELY AWARE of the illegal door she was installing, but went ahead with it anyways in order to get more money from tenants, and just waited to see how long she could get away with it. She said she wouldn't force me out, but honestly, who wants to live in shared housing with no bedroom door?
I hope for long curtains.
To give you some background, I live in the living room of a 2 bedroom condo. The person I pay rent to lives in the master bedroom, and she sublets out the other bedroom and the living room that was converted into another bedroom. And by converted I mean it has a door in the previously open entrance. You can tell it wasn't apart of the original floor plan because of the shotty craftsmanship of the carpenter who did it, but it works. Worked.
A few weeks ago some of the building's official fix-it guys came into the room to replace the filter in the A/C unit. It just so happens that the A/C unit it in my "room", so they could not not notice the door. Apparently this door is a fire hazard, or not belonging to the 'open concept' of the condo layout, or something like that and it's against the rules of the building to have it there.
Paperwork was filed and a notice was sent to the owner of the place, and that's what prompted my landlord's landlord to come pay me a visit. My actual landlord is currently off in China for a month... Anyways, she says that she can hold off the destruction until possibly the end of the month, maybe, and she'll put up a little curtain for me, as she points to the little curtains on my other housemate's door (pinned outside of the real door) which are the Japanese style ones you see at sushi restaurants, which go about halfway down to the floor.
Other than the "curtains" I don't see anything happening to fix this. I've been thinking of moving out for a little while now, so this just expedites the process. My only concern is that it's not realistic for me to find a place before September (especially with CN), so It's going to have to be for October, which means I'll be living with a curtain as a door for a month. It's not all that bad I guess, I mean my housemate is actually pretty nice and I trust her, and there's still a lockable front door, but it will just make changing awkward.
What irks me the most though, was that the landlord admitted she was ENTIRELY AWARE of the illegal door she was installing, but went ahead with it anyways in order to get more money from tenants, and just waited to see how long she could get away with it. She said she wouldn't force me out, but honestly, who wants to live in shared housing with no bedroom door?
I hope for long curtains.