{"items": [{"author": "Alex", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/100936518160252317727", "anchor": "gp-1316784284995", "service": "gp", "text": "Oof! That's annoying.", "timestamp": 1316784284}, {"author": "Victor", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155487934542706", "anchor": "fb-155487934542706", "service": "fb", "text": "Are you considering moving?", "timestamp": "1316784649"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155497051208461", "anchor": "fb-155497051208461", "service": "fb", "text": "Are you considering compiling these into a book?", "timestamp": "1316786281"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1316787284957", "service": "gp", "text": "yup", "timestamp": 1316787284}, {"author": "Daniel", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106627634005073412802", "anchor": "gp-1316788596627", "service": "gp", "text": "who are celeste and doctor obi? what's the court order?", "timestamp": 1316788596}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1316789122592", "service": "gp", "text": "@Daniel\n I've edited it to indicate who celeste and doctor obi are, but they are one of our housemates and the landlord.\n
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\nThe court order is a mutual massachusetts harassment prevention restraining order between julia and the landlord.", "timestamp": 1316789122}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155513981206768", "anchor": "fb-155513981206768", "service": "fb", "text": "@Victor: we were, but didn't find anything affordable that allowed babies and didn't make julia's commute far longer.", "timestamp": "1316789215"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155516027873230", "anchor": "fb-155516027873230", "service": "fb", "text": "@Michael: we're definitely saving them", "timestamp": "1316789584"}, {"author": "annodomini", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m0pkf", "anchor": "r-c2m0pkf", "service": "r", "text": "Uh... I think your landlord might need some psychiatric help. She sounds schizophrenic.\n", "timestamp": 1316789660}, {"author": "cbr", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m0rkl", "anchor": "r-c2m0rkl", "service": "r", "text": "→ Unfortunately, I don't think there's any way to get someone psychiatric help if they don't want it.\n", "timestamp": 1316790079}, {"author": "[deleted]", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m2a35", "anchor": "r-c2m2a35", "service": "r", "text": "→ → [deleted]\n", "timestamp": 1316800334}, {"author": "cbr", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m2bj8", "anchor": "r-c2m2bj8", "service": "r", "text": "→ → → She's probably not a threat to herself or others, though.\n", "timestamp": 1316800603}, {"author": "nuckingFutz", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m64gm", "anchor": "r-c2m64gm", "service": "r", "text": "→ → → There are police officers who have special training and privileges to commit citizens for up to 72 hours without first detaining them. Police negotiators usually have the qualifications. There are strong limits on this provision, as it's very easy to cross the line into a constitutional rights violation. Usually someone has to have explicitly stated that they are going to hurt a specific individual. And in a less ambiguous way than saying, "I'm going to get him" or "I'll kill her." Something along the lines of, "Next time I see him at the supermarket I'm going to grab one of those plungers and suck his brain out through his mouth!"\n\n
I know this because my uncle-in-law is a police negotiator, has crazy stories, and if you google him, you get crazy conspiracy theories about him from people he's committed. \n", "timestamp": 1316830870}, {"author": "Jamie_", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c35p26l", "anchor": "r-c35p26l", "service": "r", "text": "→ → → \n
I had a crazy-person neighbor...who would do crazy-person things.\n\n\n
Somehow, this allows a near-perfect visual. Impressive.\n", "timestamp": 1323155506}, {"author": "dearsomething", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m2ku3", "anchor": "r-c2m2ku3", "service": "r", "text": "→ → Call the housing authority of the city you live in, and send this letter, along with documentation of other violations.\n\n
If they are in need of psychiatric help, the housing people will try to find someone else to get involved.\n\n
In the very least, the housing authority will outline all the rights/rules/regulations and violations that are on going. Do this now, especially since the word "court order" was used. \n", "timestamp": 1316802321}, {"author": "jdennon", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c3dbnr2", "anchor": "r-c3dbnr2", "service": "r", "text": "→ → → We have talked to the housing authority. They told us that if she appeared "agitated", i.e. likely to become violent, we could call the police and they would have an ambulance take her for psychiatric evaluation. But she's never appeared violent.\n(I'm the OP's wife).\n", "timestamp": 1325537907}, {"author": "[deleted]", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m1zrx", "anchor": "r-c2m1zrx", "service": "r", "text": "→ She's getting the help that she doesn't need. That's the problem.\n", "timestamp": 1316798500}, {"author": "ItsNags", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2mahwc", "anchor": "r-c2mahwc", "service": "r", "text": "→ He's probably the arsonist running around allston\n", "timestamp": 1316889530}, {"author": "crazy0", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m0qfm", "anchor": "r-c2m0qfm", "service": "r", "text": "I can relate to the landlord's angst, most tenants are annoying\n", "timestamp": 1316789849}, {"author": "[deleted]", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m25gi", "anchor": "r-c2m25gi", "service": "r", "text": "→ [deleted]\n", "timestamp": 1316799503}, {"author": "[deleted]", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m3p7e", "anchor": "r-c2m3p7e", "service": "r", "text": "→ → Well said.\n", "timestamp": 1316810061}, {"author": "[deleted]", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m4107", "anchor": "r-c2m4107", "service": "r", "text": "→ → → [deleted]\n", "timestamp": 1316812518}, {"author": "CSharpSauce", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m46qp", "anchor": "r-c2m46qp", "service": "r", "text": "→ → → → for $1600 a month, i'll use the back door if I want to!\n", "timestamp": 1316813783}, {"author": "KEMe", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m0tfj", "anchor": "r-c2m0tfj", "service": "r", "text": "That is bat shit scary.\n\n
Are you planning on moving out soon? \n", "timestamp": 1316790468}, {"author": "Sean", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/107270646379592003271", "anchor": "gp-1316794499292", "service": "gp", "text": "Did you meet this landlord before you moved in? I'm mainly curious about the story from the beginning. That's a whole lot of crazy.", "timestamp": 1316794499}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1316795052937", "service": "gp", "text": "We didn't meet her before moving in. She was crazy from the beginning; this has been pretty much constant since march. The change recently is that she's using letters instead of shouting through our door. Which means I have things I can post (and potentially show to a judge).", "timestamp": 1316795052}, {"author": "Danielle", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155553367869496", "anchor": "fb-155553367869496", "service": "fb", "text": "sounds like she would be a big hit at the charismatic church next to my apartment.", "timestamp": "1316795716"}, {"author": "[deleted]", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m1oaj", "anchor": "r-c2m1oaj", "service": "r", "text": "hahaha holy shit\n", "timestamp": 1316796434}, {"author": "Alex", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/100936518160252317727", "anchor": "gp-1316796885036", "service": "gp", "text": "I hope for your sake it doesn't come to that!", "timestamp": 1316796885}, {"author": "BostonCab", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m1rfd", "anchor": "r-c2m1rfd", "service": "r", "text": "I don't get why landlords who don't like noisy upstairs tenants don't take the top floor? \n\n
She does sound bat shit crazy. I would get a restraining order on her for the whole apartment and everyone in it. If she violates it sue her and take her house. \n", "timestamp": 1316797006}, {"author": "ohmyashleyy", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m2rk6", "anchor": "r-c2m2rk6", "service": "r", "text": "→ I could see not wanting to deal with all those stairs. But this is likely an old house, I can hear everywhere my roommates walk upstairs, and it often sounds like stomping (though I'm sure it's not). It's unavoidable.\n", "timestamp": 1316803566}, {"author": "BostonCab", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m3uqh", "anchor": "r-c2m3uqh", "service": "r", "text": "→ → You can ask the judge for the landlord to provide additional sound proofing to the floors if it is an issue for her. \n", "timestamp": 1316811180}, {"author": "inecather", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m3yct", "anchor": "r-c2m3yct", "service": "r", "text": "→ → My grandparents own a 2 family home in Someriville and they jsut sacrifice the max they could get for rent and just put in carpeting. It works for them. \n", "timestamp": 1316811948}, {"author": "r0b0c0d", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m4271", "anchor": "r-c2m4271", "service": "r", "text": "→ → Good padding with carpets does an amazing job, though obv your landlord herself would have to spring for it - assuming you wouldn't mind it.\n\n
Be warned, however, that carpet may be the tool of the devil.\n", "timestamp": 1316812786}, {"author": "cbr", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m5ws6", "anchor": "r-c2m5ws6", "service": "r", "text": "→ → → We like that this apartment doesn't have carpeting.\n\n
She's never complained about real noises. Just fake ones. Like us playing loud music at 2am when we're all asleep.\n", "timestamp": 1316828793}, {"author": "annodomini", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m3jyl", "anchor": "r-c2m3jyl", "service": "r", "text": "→ Sometimes one floor or the other is larger. For instance, it may be a three story house, with the top two stories occupied by the tenants (who pay more in rent, which some landlords need to be able to afford the place).\n", "timestamp": 1316808981}, {"author": "cbr", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m3nsf", "anchor": "r-c2m3nsf", "service": "r", "text": "→ → In this case it is a triple decker, and her second floor apartment is almost identical to our top floor apartment. The first floor apartment is a little smaller.\n", "timestamp": 1316809778}, {"author": "rox0r", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m1saq", "anchor": "r-c2m1saq", "service": "r", "text": "Why is there a court order? There is more to this story.\n", "timestamp": 1316797163}, {"author": "cbr", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m2396", "anchor": "r-c2m2396", "service": "r", "text": "→ There is a court order because she has been doing this since march. We filed for a harassment prevention restraining order with the somerville court a few months ago. They read our documentation, and issued a temporary restraining order to keep the landlord from interacting with my wife julia (but not the other three of us). When our landlord saw this, she filed for orders against each of the four of us. This time the judge was not careful, didn't listen to any arguments, told us to "get along", and gave both the landlord and julia restraining orders against each other.\n\n
We've been to court one more time, when the landlord filed for enforcement of the order. Her complaint:\n\n\n
On the 21 July after we returned from the court the tenants on the 3rd floor seem to intensify their harassment with the object of provocation. They seem to take turns to do the following jump up at various time deliberately seem to drag heavy objects with wheels along the corridor drop trash in front of my apartment and along the hallway play music to unacceptable level different times including at night jump in the bathroom seem to release electromagnetic radiation using some devise that may be difficult to detect + locate The sulfur smelling emission seem to attack my nerves joints and give headache. They seem to walk with ball of the feet both on the stairs and hallway They leave the security doors at the back open + the front door. They tamper with the windows on my floor by opening it. I have refrained from knocking on their door. I have a 12 year old child with me and she is unable to sleep because of their behavior They also disturbed the tenants on the first floor\n\n\n
The judge dismissed her complaint but didn't change anything else.\n", "timestamp": 1316799123}, {"author": "rox0r", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m2llk", "anchor": "r-c2m2llk", "service": "r", "text": "→ → That sucks. I don't know how you "lost" in court the second time. You need to document everything and follow the proper legal steps. \n", "timestamp": 1316802476}, {"author": "cbr", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m32xz", "anchor": "r-c2m32xz", "service": "r", "text": "→ → → We didn't actually 'lose' in court the second time. She asked the court to enforce the order, they listened to what she had to say and did not. While I would have liked them to say "you're crazy, and you need to stop harassing them", I don't think that's how the legal system works.\n", "timestamp": 1316805743}, {"author": "ohmyashleyy", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m2s5w", "anchor": "r-c2m2s5w", "service": "r", "text": "→ → Having a restraining order against your landlady seems like an awfully good reason to move.\n", "timestamp": 1316803680}, {"author": "CSharpSauce", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m45z2", "anchor": "r-c2m45z2", "service": "r", "text": "→ → The scary thing is that this women has a child.\n", "timestamp": 1316813627}, {"author": "cbr", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m5wc6", "anchor": "r-c2m5wc6", "service": "r", "text": "→ → → She doesn't actually. She lives alone. I don't know how to interpret the reference to the child.\n", "timestamp": 1316828668}, {"author": "complex-variable", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m540b", "anchor": "r-c2m540b", "service": "r", "text": "→ → \n
seem to release electromagnetic radiation using some devise that may be difficult to detect + locate\n\n\n
Paranoid schizophrenia? You aren't operating an air loom by any chance?\n", "timestamp": 1316821395}, {"author": "Cory", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155566257868207", "anchor": "fb-155566257868207", "service": "fb", "text": "wow SERIOUSLY crazy, how on earth did she manage to become a landlord anyway? I hope you have locks to your apartment that she doesn't have the key to! I assume the other renters in the building are not on her side?", "timestamp": "1316797786"}, {"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155569554534544", "anchor": "fb-155569554534544", "service": "fb", "text": "IMHO, this is beyond entertaining, and you need to get out of there. You've become somewhat inured to the craziness. And there is economic motive to stay. But to a cold outsider, this is seriously worth leaving. Sorry to be a wet blanket.", "timestamp": "1316798316"}, {"author": "Allison", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103741579182942078941", "anchor": "gp-1316799832247", "service": "gp", "text": "I'm so sorry to have to deal with this. When does the lease expire?", "timestamp": 1316799832}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1316800197218", "service": "gp", "text": "@allison\n the end of february", "timestamp": 1316800197}, {"author": "Darbus", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m2bd9", "anchor": "r-c2m2bd9", "service": "r", "text": "Why are you still living there?\n", "timestamp": 1316800573}, {"author": "jchaines", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m2tl0", "anchor": "r-c2m2tl0", "service": "r", "text": "→ Yea, move out. Is this some mansion for $300 a month or something? This is Boston, thousands of choices. Clearly this is above and beyond reasonable. You could so easily break a lease legally with this ridiculousness. MA ALWAYS sides with the renter, regardless they would side with you on logic alone.\n", "timestamp": 1316803947}, {"author": "cbr", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m34o9", "anchor": "r-c2m34o9", "service": "r", "text": "→ We're living with another couple and their baby. Looking for apartments in the boston area when you have a kid is really hard because of lead. Legally the responsibility for deleading (or making the place lead-safe) is entirely the landlord's and they can't discriminate against tenants with kids on the grounds that they would have to do something about lead. Practically, landlords with lead will do everything they can to find a reason not to rent to you. This makes economic sense (dealing with lead can cost $20K+) but it sucks.\n", "timestamp": 1316806060}, {"author": "[deleted]", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m37s4", "anchor": "r-c2m37s4", "service": "r", "text": "→ → [deleted]\n", "timestamp": 1316806628}, {"author": "cbr", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m3nip", "anchor": "r-c2m3nip", "service": "r", "text": "→ → → You're right that it's illegal, but we'd rather not enter into another adversarial relationship with a new landlord. \n", "timestamp": 1316809724}, {"author": "[deleted]", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m3w15", "anchor": "r-c2m3w15", "service": "r", "text": "→ → → → [deleted]\n", "timestamp": 1316811446}, {"author": "BostonCab", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m4acj", "anchor": "r-c2m4acj", "service": "r", "text": "→ → → → → I disagree with this. Living in New England and having children are both choices. Forcing someone to spend $20,00 because you chose to have children and live in Massachusetts does not seem right to me. \n", "timestamp": 1316814563}, {"author": "[deleted]", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m52fn", "anchor": "r-c2m52fn", "service": "r", "text": "→ → → → → → Yes, but they chose to enter the landlording business, and they get a tax write-off that can be applied to future income. \n", "timestamp": 1316821014}, {"author": "[deleted]", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m5aa1", "anchor": "r-c2m5aa1", "service": "r", "text": "→ → → → → → Hey, man, they chose to be landlords, they can follow the law or go home.\n", "timestamp": 1316822921}, {"author": "EdPC", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c35r0w6", "anchor": "r-c35r0w6", "service": "r", "text": "→ → → → → → Since lead goes againt code and harms children, its how they move older houses up to code.\n", "timestamp": 1323182386}, {"author": "EdPC", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c35r0m0", "anchor": "r-c35r0m0", "service": "r", "text": "→ → → I was on a jury for this, the womn sued the landlord and then the state decided to sue him too. He got fuking owned.\n", "timestamp": 1323182317}, {"author": "Think_Tanker", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m2oqu", "anchor": "r-c2m2oqu", "service": "r", "text": "http://i.imgur.com/xmZng.jpg\n", "timestamp": 1316803053}, {"author": "jchaines", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m2spp", "anchor": "r-c2m2spp", "service": "r", "text": "More proof Jesus is so much more a hallucinogenic playmate of the mentally disturbed. \n", "timestamp": 1316803780}, {"author": "Jenny", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155605831197583", "anchor": "fb-155605831197583", "service": "fb", "text": "Oh my. I've had a few like this show up in mediations over the years. Moving is a good idea. Meanwhile, is there any way to keep it from sliding back into the police/court universe? Is there a friend, pastor, or family member to whom you can express your concern for her well being? I know it sounds counter-productive, but what this woman really needs is kindness.", "timestamp": "1316804029"}, {"author": "Dan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155606834530816", "anchor": "fb-155606834530816", "service": "fb", "text": "I *knew* your wickedness would catch up with you! And the chemicals.", "timestamp": "1316804195"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155614934530006", "anchor": "fb-155614934530006", "service": "fb", "text": "@Jenny: we actually tried a mediator earlier. The mediator tried talking to her and told us that there was nothing they could do.
As for talking to other people, I've never seen any of her friends or family around, and she is her own pastor, running a tiny church out of her apartment.", "timestamp": "1316805491"}, {"author": "Jenny", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155631781194988", "anchor": "fb-155631781194988", "service": "fb", "text": "Yeah, I could've told you a mediation wouldn't work... But she has a small flock? Interesting.", "timestamp": "1316808228"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155638157861017", "anchor": "fb-155638157861017", "service": "fb", "text": "@Jenny: very small, though I think it might have used to have been larger?
As for mediation not working, at the time we knew less than we do now.", "timestamp": "1316809218"}, {"author": "George", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155661307858702", "anchor": "fb-155661307858702", "service": "fb", "text": "You really should just leave. Assuming you are not destitute, it is almost as crazy as she is to stay there.", "timestamp": "1316813166"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155683024523197", "anchor": "fb-155683024523197", "service": "fb", "text": "@George: the main thing keeping us where we are is housing discrimination and lead paint. A huge fraction of apartments here have lead. It's entirely the landlord's responsibility to deal with the lead, and discrimination against children in housing is illegal. In practice, this just means very few options.", "timestamp": "1316816814"}, {"author": "George", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155687301189436", "anchor": "fb-155687301189436", "service": "fb", "text": "Can't you not reveal that there are children? And surely there are some places with no lead paint ...", "timestamp": "1316817631"}, {"author": "[deleted]", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c2m5bgl", "anchor": "r-c2m5bgl", "service": "r", "text": "What did Celeste say/yell/think at her?\n", "timestamp": 1316823205}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155741604517339", "anchor": "fb-155741604517339", "service": "fb", "text": "@George: not revealing that you have children is legal, but we'd prefer not to be in another adversarial relationship with our landlord.
As for no lead paint, pretty much all the cheap housing in boston was built before lead paint was abandoned, and few places have been deleaded.", "timestamp": "1316827889"}, {"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/112947709146257842066", "anchor": "gp-1316828540967", "service": "gp", "text": "The silver lining to this is that it will make an awesome story later in life. I don't mean to make light of the aggravation, but you will blow people's minds with this.", "timestamp": 1316828540}, {"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155765654514934", "anchor": "fb-155765654514934", "service": "fb", "text": "However, solving the problems of $, kids and lead paint will probably be easier than dealing with this situation if it gets marginally worse. What would you do if she hauls you into court on some trumped up complaint?", "timestamp": "1316832567"}, {"author": "Christine", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155772881180878", "anchor": "fb-155772881180878", "service": "fb", "text": "In my past experience, landlords and realators just will not talk to you if you have young children. They don't want to have to deal with the cost of deleading. Slightly illegal, but as a renter what recourse do we have. We just don't have the money to sue for discrimination and they KNOW that!
Definately sounds like you've got a very looney landlord.", "timestamp": "1316833979"}, {"author": "David German", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/111229345142780712481", "anchor": "gp-1316838128615", "service": "gp", "text": "I would +1 George Dahl's post, but it's on Facebook. You're going to have to find a new apartment in February anyway, right? Why not just do it now? You may have to compromise on one of cost, location, and lead, but nothing about that choice is going to change between now and then.", "timestamp": 1316838128}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/155480447876788?comment_id=155920931166073", "anchor": "fb-155920931166073", "service": "fb", "text": "@Walker: she's already tried to take us to court. The judge dismissed her claim at an initial hearing. Without us needing to present our documentation of her crazyness.", "timestamp": "1316871360"}, {"author": "Julia", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/114588710186521489410", "anchor": "gp-1316923424137", "service": "gp", "text": "David and others: We looked and couldn't find anything that met our combined needs of no lead, yes cats, three bedrooms, the budget, and not extending my 60 - 90 minute commute. Worst case in March is we stay with Jeff's parents for two months, which does extend the commute but is almost free.", "timestamp": 1316923424}, {"author": "EdPC", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c35qzma", "anchor": "r-c35qzma", "service": "r", "text": "I had a older black woman start freaking out like that at me on the orange line last week. Wonder if it was the same crazy?\n", "timestamp": 1323182066}, {"author": "jdennon", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/kp2ih#c3dboys", "anchor": "r-c3dboys", "service": "r", "text": "→ Thankfully, she has a car so we never see her on the orange line.\n", "timestamp": 1325538117}]}