[ValerieUSA]

This house sat empty for months before we moved in -- before that it was a "group home" for disabled adults. I found that out months later from a neighbor. I like the location of this place - it's convenient for in Waco. Safely off of the main drags in a good neighborhood, but only a few blocks from 2 nice grocery stores, a nice mall, dozens of restaurants, my bank, the post office, Barnes and Noble.... It is such a HUGE improvement over the last place that I don't want to have to move again if I can avoid it.

[lodwick]

OK - if you can talk to the owner directly, do so. Tell him everything that we've said here. That you want to stay there till you die, and you want to live to be 200 years old.

But he's got to do his part and bring the place up to habitabilty standards for crying out loud.

This is wearing me out. LL's do right for goodness sake. Save my sanity - or what's left of it. ;-)

[Canadian Outrage]

What is the rental market like in Waco Val? Low vacancy or high vacancy? The fact that it sat empty for months is kinda suspicious. A group home would put a lot of strain on a lot of things, like, carpeting, plumbing, etc. They should have to disclose those things. So9 is right about the written Demand letter tho. Get a paper trail and lay out the whole scenario including start dates etc. Give them 48 hours to fix it.