An annoying day with the little boarders.

in #hive-1962332 years ago

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And because my budget was tight, I had another boring weekend with my two days off from work at the boarding house I was staying at.

Supposedly there are two of us staying here but my board mate went home yesterday so to entertain myself here I thought of doing general cleaning inside.

To be honest, our room is really small and the rent is expensive. I will show you some parts of my rented room but I'm not yet ready to show the whole room because it's kind of messy cause I pull up the things that we put at the side of the room to check how worst are our borders made inside.

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This place is a whole house but it was divided into two, the other part was occupied by whole family members that rented also and the other part is the one we occupied but it was again divided into four rooms so obviously the owner is taking good money from it. They live far and only ask us to send the money for the rent through bank transfer and the sad thing is that the owner does not take the time to take a look at the problems in the house, such as the leak in the ceiling. We had to endure it for a long time before when it rained, it really caused chaos, but thanks to our persistence, they finally contacted his acquaintance to fix it.

Now because there is really no maintenance inside the house it cannot be avoided no matter how much you clean the place, there are unexpected borders that escape inside through the broken window and even the door.

One of the intruders is the mice. We thought when we first saw them that they had left because they hadn't shown up since we chased them away by scaring them and making noise to get out of the room.

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When I did the cleaning, I found out that they actually only drilled two holes to make a tunnel or I think they made a house because they have a little one who actually peeked through the hole.

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Another headache is those red ants and cockroaches that roamed around, especially during the nighttime. We have no clue where they come from since at day period when we are home we can only see them sometimes.

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It's really annoying to think that even though we told the owner to clean the surrounding of the house, they doesn't really take any action, they just wants to receive payment. And now it's really messy because it's really eaten our things and it left us dirty so there's nothing we can do but apart from cleaning, we should really spend our own money on the solution.

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For now, we will try this first to see if it will work otherwise we might find another solution. Hopefully, it will be helpful.

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They are sharing your rent with you( the cockroach and the rat), hope they bring a reasonable amount too😂

That's the problem I have with landlords honestly, they don't even care about the condition of their tenants and all they care about is just the rent and nothing else... Although there are some good landlords anyway

Sorry about the situation you found yourself in

It’s tough when people don’t bother to take pride and responsibility in their property and instead make you live in squalor. Hopefully you can get it cleaned up so you can live in a more comfortable environment!

We call these slum landlords who take money for horrible accomodation and do nothing to take care of it. Do you not have a local barangay office you can complain to or file a police report? This is seriously cheating and will be bad for your health.

So would spray the whole room with a can of Chondrite but then leave for the day as it's wicked stuff. It will kill the roaches and ants.

You take care and I hope you burn the place down when you leave!

If only I could but I don't want to be the laughingstock of others and I also don't want them to talk about me doing this unusual thing. Honestly, most of the people here in the city do things this way because it's quite difficult to find a good place to stay especially like we that are taking risks for a job just to gain better money to earn so when you're tight on money people endure this kind situation. We just want the landlord to somehow help us maintain the place instead of just accepting money from us. For now, we are trying our own best, maybe one day we can find a better place to stay.

I'm sorry! I have lived in infested places too and it's almost impossible to get rid of the boarders because there are so many of them. I hope you can move soon

I hope so, but in reality, most of those who rent here in the city should really accept the reality that how clean you are at home when more people do not focus on proper hygiene, there is a real possibility that you will not be able to avoid the things like intruders in the house. I can't afford to rent something like an apartment building yet, my salary is really low, so I just have to bear with it, we really just want the landlord to clean the house around that way so that the pests in the room that are intruding don't get worse.

disgusting, irresponsable tenants are a big problem for landlords everywhere

That's right they just only want to receive easy money.

Slum landlords are the scum of the earth. I hope that one day you will be able to leave this place and find better accommodation.

Yes, hopefully, they just want to collect our rent but not take care of us tenants. It's really sad.😳