Slum Lord and boilers

ScottMP

JCA will want to expound on this but ..

We got a call the other day from a new customer who has an apt. building a couple of towns over. He asked if we could check the one boiler and get the opther two going as the tenants where complaining of no heat.

Chris called from the job to tell me he was shutting them all off.

Two of the boilers were so rusted that the burner tubes has nothing to rest on the back. They were leaning down and all rusted out.

The one boiler that was running ... are you ready ... had a burner tube that had rusted off and was one the ground. The gas was burning straight out of the gas spud !!

We called the owner who said he had'nt seen the building in a couple of months. When I told him a ball aprk of what it would cost to replace them all he said " I don't have that type of money".

Funny he was cashing the checks every month !!

Scott

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Unknown

It's going around....

In this case, the landlord LIVED in one of the buildings that were padlocked by the city.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/WABC_100604_mountvernon.html




Two Dozen Families Now Homeless In Mount Vernon
(Mount Vernon-WABC, October 6, 2004) — Some two dozen families in Mount Vernon are suddenly homeless.

They are on the losing end of the city's battle to shut down a man called the worst kind of slum lord.

Mayor Ernest Davis condemned several buildings run by Neville Douglas.

T There was no advance warning for tenants who found themselves out on the street looking to the Red Cross for temporary housing.

A typical tenant paid $950 dollars for a small apartment in deplorable condition with no heat and erratic electricity.

S Ebels

Ahh yes...........rental owners and \"slum lords\"

> JCA will want to expound on this but ..

>

> We

> got a call the other day from a new customer who

> has an apt. building a couple of towns over. He

> asked if we could check the one boiler and get

> the opther two going as the tenants where

> complaining of no heat.

>

> Chris called from the

> job to tell me he was shutting them all off.

> Two of the boilers were so rusted that the burner

> tubes has nothing to rest on the back. They were

> leaning down and all rusted out.

>

> The one

> boiler that was running ... are you ready ... had

> a burner tube that had rusted off and was one the

> ground. The gas was burning straight out of the

> gas spud !!

>

> We called the owner who said he

> had'nt seen the building in a couple of months.

> When I told him a ball aprk of what it would cost

> to replace them all he said " I don't have that

> type of money".

>

> Funny he was cashing the

> checks every month !!

>

> Scott

>

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S Ebels

Ahh yes...........rental owners and \"slum lords\"

There ought to be a law that unless their unit(s) meet a given fuel consumption per sq ft. the landlord pays the gas bill.

After working in many of these I am convinced that there are few types of residential housing the surpass rentals in the energy wasting category. There is absolutely no incentive for the landlord to improve the efficiency of them. 95 times out of 100 the tenants are forced to pay for the fuel and have nothing to say about the efficiency of the system or the weather tightness of the structure. Something's not right with that equation.

I'd like to see a landlord argue otherwise here.

J.C.A._3

Steve,

Ineffecient would have been a HUGE step forward for these things.I really got scared when the only running unit lit. The roar was horrendous.

Each of the 3 boilers had at least 1 tube completely unconnected to the manifold. There was close to 3" of mud under each one. (I finally determined that there actually was a slab under them after 15 minutes of digging)The air inlets on the sides of the Peerless boilers were completely packed with mud. All but the last unit in the line had scorch marks up the inside cover, to the point of melted handles on the gas valves.Apparently, someone decided that the last one needed a gas valve sometime toward the end of last season because that one was in O.K. shape

I can't understand how anyone in good conscience could have left any of these boilers on line. Attrocious is the only word I can think of to decribe their condition. Chris

Matt Undy

There is a law..in Ann Arbor, MI at least:

http://library4.municode.com/gateway.dll/MI/michigan/8978/9096?fn=document-frameset.htm$f=templates$3.0#LPTOC30

scroll down to section 8:528.2.e

Matt