Slumlord lawsuit and house buying fun. Superstitious?

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So, do you remember all the slumlord fun we had with mold and flooding? Need a refresher:

Turns out a tenant our slumlords had back in 2008 is filing a lawsuit against them over lead paint violations! Found this via the Associated Press:

AP-IN–Lead Paint-Lawsuit,0135
Evansville landlords face suit over lead paint
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) – The Indiana attorney general’s office
and local health officials are suing two Evansville landlords who
they say ignored repeated warnings to clean up hazardous lead paint
in a rental house.
The suit filed Thursday in Vanderburgh County against Mark R.
Bryan and Tammy A. Bryan says a child of a tenant at the home
tested positive for an elevated blood-lead level in January 2008
and paint samples from the house tested positive for lead.
The Bryans could not be located for comment because a telephone
number listed for them was disconnected.
The attorney general’s office says it is the first time the
state has used public nuisance laws in trying to force the cleanup
of lead paint, which has been blamed for reduced intelligence and
brain damage in children.

I contacted the state attorney general and offered to provide all contact information I have for the Bryans and shared that there are many other tenants (that found my blog and realized we had the same landlord and had similar issues) who might want to join in the lawsuit. Who says blogging doesn’t have an impact?

Also, tomorrow is Friday the 13th and we are signing the closing documents and becoming homeowners! The mortgage broker said “I hope you aren’t suspicious, tomorrow is Friday the 13th.” Shoot, that’s no problem for us! If we can get a marriage certificate on October 31st why not buy a house on Friday the 13th?

Today has been a jampacked day! Lawsuit fun makes us thank our lucky stars we got out of that nasty rental before Everly was born. Then we get the happy news about our much anticipated house closing. Yay and woot!

The end.

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Momisodes

I am so glad you were able to connect with others with this issue. These people should not be able to get away with this. I remember how awful things were. I am SO happy and thrilled to hear you are out of there and starting over in a place of your OWN! A huge congratulations is in order :)
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Krystal McCarthy

Woot woot!
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Donna B.

Congratulations on the closing! And you go get those nasty sleazy landlords.
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maiden53

I think we signed the papers for this house on a Fri the 13th, too.... It has been great living here. Got the supplies to finish my duck house today... hope we can get to it before the snow gets to us!!!
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Jac @ Wuzzlemakesthree

Oh my! You really have the landlord from hell!!

Good luck with your house, Friday the 13th is a fine day to buy a house! (That's when we made the offer on ours; we closed on the 31st though.)
.-= Jac @ Wuzzlemakesthree´s last blog ..Ugly Jammies and a Cup of Tea =-.

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