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Originally Posted by Roderick Usher

Aarrrrrrgh!

My son woke me up at 2:30 last night because...the ceiling fell on his head!!!!!

Actually, just bits of stucco and plaster, but water was dripping on his bed and all over the floor. This has been an ongoing problem and I have bitched and bitched about it, but I took another tactic this morning and it's working.

I wrote a letter to the landlord requesting a rent reduction and cc'd it to the Los Angeles County Dept. Of Health...with this little sentence in the middle of it

"The fact that there was standing water alarms me greatly as Stachybotrys chartarum, (a known Mycotoxin capable of causing rashes, headache, nausea, muscle aches, pains and fatigue) grows on wet material with high cellulose content, such as fiberboard, drywall, newspaper, gypsum board, wood, cardboard, paper, dust, lint, and wallboard."

Should you ever have a similar problem, just drop this in a letter to your landlord and send a copy to the board of health... the landlord will jump to action like a hungry puppy to avoid a health-risk lawsuit!

Sounds like the problems the bf and I have been having for the past 5 months. Wonder if that tactic would work over here...