10-08-2016, 05:09 PM
River, I know you may have overlooked this paragraph in your link:
"Adult Protective Services (APS) is a mandated service of APCSB that provides crisis intervention, without regard to income, including investigation and emergency services for vulnerable adults who are reported to be abused, neglected or financially exploited by others or seriously endangered due to self-neglect. A vulnerable adult is a person eighteen years of age or older, who because of mental, developmental, or physical impairment, is unable to: communicate or make responsible decisions to manage the person’s own care or resources; carry out or arrange for essential activities of daily living; or protect oneself from abuse"
Again, this may lead to a competency judgement, which may not be what the landlord is wishing...
ETA: Things like removing doors, cutting off services are nothing new to the law & are even anticipated & COVERED (pgs 10 &11) in the Landlord tenet handbook & in the code...
These actions would put the landlord into a legal mess, again, with the landlord having to pay for the court costs of the tenant, plus up to the cost of 2 months rent (if done intentionally & causing harm to the tenet there could also be additional fees...)
If the door were actually stolen, the repair is covered in the landlord handbook, (pgs 7-9) and the cost of replacement/repair would be borne by THE LANDLORD
Folks, most of you are suggesting things that would cost the landlord far more than dealing with this in the legal manner & could actually put the landlord at risk... Why, on earth would you suggest such fool-hardy things???
If you are not sure about you suggestion,
there are more than enough links in this thread on the PROPER way to deal with this...
Another way to look at this is that we have a small, partial-view of one side of the story, we have no idea what work was agreed on, we have no idea what work has been done, we have no idea of the living conditions .... our attitude may change to support the tenet if we had that information... that isWHY there are legal ways of dealing with this!
"Adult Protective Services (APS) is a mandated service of APCSB that provides crisis intervention, without regard to income, including investigation and emergency services for vulnerable adults who are reported to be abused, neglected or financially exploited by others or seriously endangered due to self-neglect. A vulnerable adult is a person eighteen years of age or older, who because of mental, developmental, or physical impairment, is unable to: communicate or make responsible decisions to manage the person’s own care or resources; carry out or arrange for essential activities of daily living; or protect oneself from abuse"
Again, this may lead to a competency judgement, which may not be what the landlord is wishing...
ETA: Things like removing doors, cutting off services are nothing new to the law & are even anticipated & COVERED (pgs 10 &11) in the Landlord tenet handbook & in the code...
These actions would put the landlord into a legal mess, again, with the landlord having to pay for the court costs of the tenant, plus up to the cost of 2 months rent (if done intentionally & causing harm to the tenet there could also be additional fees...)
If the door were actually stolen, the repair is covered in the landlord handbook, (pgs 7-9) and the cost of replacement/repair would be borne by THE LANDLORD
Folks, most of you are suggesting things that would cost the landlord far more than dealing with this in the legal manner & could actually put the landlord at risk... Why, on earth would you suggest such fool-hardy things???
If you are not sure about you suggestion,
there are more than enough links in this thread on the PROPER way to deal with this...
Another way to look at this is that we have a small, partial-view of one side of the story, we have no idea what work was agreed on, we have no idea what work has been done, we have no idea of the living conditions .... our attitude may change to support the tenet if we had that information... that isWHY there are legal ways of dealing with this!