I wasn’t trying to be funny. . .
Hi relliot,
Thanks for your reply.
I’m going to call the City out here tomorrow. I’m so sick of going thru this BS with my landlord! The gas water heater in my apartment has been shut down.
There’s also a sewer line under the building that is broken and he won’t fix that either.
Thanks for all replies,
Sabrina
Well I called the local gas company (city) this morning and they said there will be a $25.00 fee for them to come out and look at the gas water heater.
I can’t belive this!! Oh well so much for the city’s help.
Thanks again for all replies,
Sabrina
Sabrina,
Pay the $25. It’s a small price to pay for your safety. Give up this weeks dinner and movie and instead invest it in possibly saving your own life. Carbon Monixide is nothing to discount. People die from it EVERY Day.
If the gas company determines there is a problem then your lawyer/landlord won’t have a lot he can say. He’ll have to fix the property. If he doesn’t, contact another lawyer yourself, and ask him about how you go about placing your rent check in escro to be held until your landlord responds.
I have 2 New (3 weeks old) First Alert Carbon Monoxide Detectors in my apartment. One is in the same room where the gas water heater is located at and the other is in my hallway. Neither detector has gone off as of yet.
The gas water heater is shut down and will stay shut down til payday til I can afford to pay the city to come out and look at this problem.
Amazing laws you have over there,so I guess I should appreciate peoples gas over here.I can not believe the gas company would not be forced by law to come out in a potential emergency.This kind of negligence from a public utility sickens me.Are you telling me if you call right now and complain you smell gas or have a gas leak these idiots will not come out unless you pay them twenty five dollars.Gosh I hope they get sued right up the old Keyster.
Sabrina I truley feel sorry for you,and the public officials should not be reelected.Best of luck to you. Bob Elliott (licensed Home Inspector)
(feel free to send them a copy of my comment.)
When I called the City Gas Department I told them that the gas water heater in my apartment was putting out some type of vapour that burns the eyes, nose and throat. The lady on the phone asked is it gas, I said no that it isn’t a gas smell, and explain to her it doesn’t have a smell to it it just burns the eyes, nose and throat.
She then told me that it would cost 25 bucks to send a guy out to look at it, but if I was a Disabled person it would be free to send a guy out to look at it.
So that’s were I stand right now as far as the City of Corpus Christi Gas Co. goes.
I also went to the emergency room yesterday to find out why my eyes, nose and throat were burning. The doctor ran x-rays of my chest, x-rays came back normal. He said my throat was definitly irritated (red) and diagnosed me with Pharyangitis/Trachitis and all that means is irritants that are floating around in tha air you breath.
Thanks again for your reply,
Sabrina
If these tubes are inserted far enough, they’ll change the landlord’s lackadaisial attitude.
Worth repeating!
Why not install an electric water heater?
My landlord wouldn’t even do something like putting in an electric water heater.
**He would have to pay an electrician to install an outlet. There’s no electrical outlets in the little room the now gas water heater sits in…Hell, he won’t even fin for a new gas water heater much less an electric water heater! **
He is a cheap man and doesn’t care about anyone who lives in this building. Yes, I could call a lawyer, but it cost money to do this, which I’m a girl on a limited budget and can not afford a lawyer.
The city won’t do anything either without being paid to come out here!
I’m so frustrated at this moment I could scream.
Thanks for your reply,
Sabrina
If thats the case I suggest you put a big sign on your car with a caption such as “Landlord killing tenant” and park it in front of the landlords office/house, and then park in front of city hall, the local TV station, radio station, newspaper…