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5 indents share experiences with less-than-perfect landlords
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BY MELISSA PANTANO
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f Lewis slides the key into the lock of his
pew apartment. As he opens the door, he
jids the temperature on the inside is higher
Ihe temperature outside.
He checks the thermostat, and behold, it reads
Agrees. He sighs as he realizes he has one of
He” landlords.
Hoving off-campus is an exciting experi-
ice, but it can be spoiled by the person who
Ulirts the rent.
lU wis, a senior agriculture develop-
ent major, said he has been at odds
ith his landlord since the day he
into is apartment,
hen we got there, the AC was
Lewis said, “I tried to get
toll of my landlord, but she nev-
j^HHurned my calls.”
“1 went out of town for a few
Lewis said, “When 1 got
she had put a window unit in
> -oi e that blew 5 feet of cold air —
* ■the fridge was broken. Then she
and my roommate a letter that
HHthat she thought we were respon-
■ for the AC and the fridge being bro-
| ■ like we would turn it off on purpose.”
But Lewis’ landlord nightmare was just
BBnning.
|lts been a month, and the AC is still bro-
” Lewis said “It’s so bad that I have had to
with a friend.”
ewis is not the only Aggie who has had to
with shady landlords.
leather Milner, a junior agriculture develop-
iFcou;MBii«nt major, said she, has gotten the shaft from
he residential powers-that-be.
V‘I lived in this one place a few years ago,”
vlilnersaid, “The management had changed.
and we got a new landlord. After that every
thing went to hell.”
“There was a rumor that the manager would
fine residents for different things and then pock
et the cash,” Milner said. “Also, if you paid your
rent in cash, that would get pocketed, too.”
MARK MCPHERSON/The BATTALION
Sometimes a different type of landlord attracts
different types of tenants.
“One time I woke up in the morning and
there was all this noise outside,” Milner said. “I
turned on the TV., and my complex was on be
cause there was a hostage situation. The SWAT
team was there, and it was just a big mess.
“The police were doing drug busts there all
the time, people’s cars were being broken into
— it was a scary place to live, and the lousy
landlord didn’t help.
“So, I moved to the complex where my old
landlord transferred to.”
Jennifer McCreary, assistant coordinator of
the Off Campus Student Services Department
of Student Life, said there are some common
problems student tenants should avoid.
“People need to read and understand their
lease,” McCreary said. “If your landlord says
that they are going to fix something and it is
not added to your lease agreement, they
are under no legal obligation to fix it. Ver
bal contracts don’t hold up.”
McCreary said students mostly run
into problems with the return of their
deposit.
“Save a copy of repair requests,”
McCreary said. “Keep anything you
turn in your landlord.”
Gavin Daniels, a senior architecture
major, said he wished he had followed
McCreary’s advice when dealing with
one of his landlords.
“He totally misrepresented the house
when we went to look at it,” Daniels said,
“He said that the house would be clean
when we moved in and that we would have
trash service.
“When we moved in, the house was a mess
and it didn’t have a refrigerator. Not only that,
but we never did get our trash picked up”
Daniels said his old landlord took advan
tage of him and his roommates.
“This one time, we came home and our TV
and vacuum cleaner were both gone,” he said.
“My landlord said that he took them be
cause our rent was late, and that is legal for
landlords to hold your stuff hostage, but they
have to give proper notification first.”
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When a girl wants to do some-
f!fie0fl//Bng guys traditionally do, they
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te rA’t know what she’s doing,”’ Brad-
,esv berry said. “That’s the stereotype
i sf —fookjt the ratio of girls to guys
g a P> according to the WSSF,
creasing. Over 22 percent of
iverall sports-shooting popula-
m are women with five million
en participating in handgun,
land shotgun sports.
Bradberry said while shooting
is fun, she considered it more a
skill to acquire than a rush.
“I don’t feel powerful just be
cause I’m holding a gun,” Brad-
berry said.
However, Bradberry said,
shooting the gun made her more
aware of the power of a firearm.
“When you’re holding the gun
you have to be so careful,” she
said. “You’re holding something
that can really hurt yourself and
someone else.”
Powell said that being able to
handle a gun is an important fac
tor for women learning to shoot.
“The physical aspects of shooting
are different for a woman,” Pow
ell said. “Generally a man is phys
ically stronger, so there’s an aspect
of control involved.”
Hvizdos said shooting is as
much a thrill as it is a skill.
“Shooting gave me an adrena
line rush," Hvizdos said. “The
guys teaching me thought I was
really good. It was kind of a dan
ger thing.”
According to WSSF statistics,
women own 9 percent of all
firearms in the U.S.
Hvizdos and Bradberry both
said there are safety issues that go
along with shooting.
“It’s more dangerous not to
know how to use a gun and have
it in the house,” Hvizdos said.
Bradberry said she would prob
ably not be able to hurt someone
even if threatened.
“I don’t see myself being able fo
shoot a person, even if I’m b^ing
attacked,” she said. “You would
want to protect yourself, but in a
dangerous situation, I don’t think
I could stay in control. I think
that’s true of a lot of women.”
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