Crazy landlord stoled my macbook
My background: I'm from finland, exchange student in brussels for whole year. I moved to st-catherine, RUE D'OPHEM 46 in the beginning of september. I found this appertment from the internet. I saw the place, it really was a piece of shit but i thought if they'll just clean it, i can live in it. The problems started quite straight away when i moved in, but i'm a person who doesnt complain so easily so i just waited and solved some problems by my self. the story is really long etc, so i'm going to deal it into a little pieces. And for my language, i may fixe some english and french, because i really forgot some words in english but i know them in french, so try to follow my realdeal story.
1. Living 1 month without warm water or own electricity.
-i just moved in, flat was really clean, we did the contract. After 3-4 days there was no electricity. i called the landlord, and he said that because the contract of the older tenant ended, we need to remake it with electrabel. He promised to come with me, i contacted him several times, so in the end it took 1 month to get the warm water and electrisity. It was more than horrible, but i survived.
-then in the end of february, i came back from my internship place, i noticed that my flat's door was open. I entered and realized that my mac book was stolen, thank god my small adopted dog was ok. i was in a shock, i called to the landlord, and he told me that he will call the cops and come to my place directly. (attention!He said several times before that he live really close to our building) I waited him more than 30 minutes, he came and i needed to explain him what happened, but when i said that did he call the cops, he didn't. but now after 1h he did. and we waited the policemen another 1 more.
-policemen did what they could, and left. in my flat, there was this landlord,his brother, and my neighbour. The brother asked what happened in my place, and the landlord started to tell, like really naturally with all the details, even with details i never said. He said like "there was a bag over there and the burglar took it and put the laptop inside it..". He has never ever even seen that bag or the exact place. straight after that i realised what is happening. And i keep telling that it cannot be anybody else that somebody who lives in this appartement or who has visited my place. reasons for that why its not some random guy
A) no one from outside knows that i have a laptop. And normally the laptop is always with my, but now i just didnt need it in my work, so i left it regularly in my place
B)Even someone knows that yes that girl has a macbook, how can they know in which appartement or floor i live, beacuse there is no names or numbers in the building.
C)The first door was fine, only mine was broken.
- Direclty after burglary, the landlord gave me his really old iMac, that i could continue my studies. Like he brought it from his car, like he already knew that my laptop was stolen. I started to look for info from that iMac, there was no softwares, it was all clean, and i found it really weird. Landlord said to me that he knows a code that i can use to download what ever softwares i want.I started to think that the landlord has installed a "serveur" on it, to survey what i do, like how i enter to my bank etc. because we use that serveur in our work: there is one or several computers, which can be wacthed by one computer. what ever the others are doing, the one computer sees every movement, mouse etc on it's own screen. Next day, I found the first seller , took the serial nro to ask if it's stolen iMac etc, i was sending a message for one company and just when i finished the message , my landlord rushed in to my place, took the iMac in front of my nose and started to shout at me. He said that i'm the problem one in this building, he'll sign a paper with other neighbours that they'll kick me out of there, so i need to move directly. I told him to calm down, i can hear without shouting, and said that i want to talk with him. he didn't even watch me in my eyes, and said that electrabel called him that they will come soon and cut the warming and electricity, i asked why, he said that because i havent paid the bills. i knew it was not right was he said to me, because i havent had any problems with paying the bills. He was also angry because i told him that it has to be someone who lives it the appartement, or the landlord, so when i was kind of like 'after him', he started to act like that. i think he was scared, and after that he started to do what so eve to get rid of me.
-next day i called to electrabel and they said that no,they are not coming to cut the electricity.then in that morning, my neighbour, one young boy, knocked my door before 8 in the morning, and he said to me that he cant go out of the building.I was like what?? he said that we need two keys, one to enter and one to go out. I have lived there like 6 months, and no one told me that before! the door was never locked inside, the main door was always closed, but not locked inside, i mean that everyone with the key to enter the building could come anyway, but in this case we couldn't go out because someone did close the door inside. I was sure that something is going to happen to me,because the landlord was so mad at me, i called again the cops but they said that they can't do anything because the door is closed. i was scared to death, me, a young woman, living alone. I asked my neighbour not to leave me alone. There we were, in front of the main door, when i heard my doorbell ringing. We were quiet, i said to the neighbour, that who the hell is trying to come this early in my place, because i wasn't expecting somebody to come. I opened silently the mail-box-"window", or how do you call that, i could see 2 men waiting in front of the door and i heard the otherone saying : "maybe she went out with the dog". Can electrabel, who has never even seen my dog, know that maybe i'm out with the dog?? then i opened the small mail box again and said them that unfortunately i can't open the door because i don't have the key. They said that they are from electrabel and will cut the warming. i told that i cant open the door and they left. after one other neighbour came and opened the door. after, i went again to see the policemen..
-I also heard that it's illegal to rent a house without a window in the livingroom. I didnt have that, the only window i have is in the kitchen, it was really small and it was broken. I couldn't close it.One night, one other neighbour came to my place to calm me down and help me, he was trying to fixe the window, but the landlord happend to see that so he said to the boy that he is not allowed to fix anything in my appartement. He stayed at my place, to talk and soon my dog was eating something what I have never seen: rat poison! we started to look the poison and cleaned them. It was like small bags, and they were hidden in one place, kind of like under the floor. My dog felt bad, he did not eat or drink, he did not play. I was really worried, but in the end he was fine. I was really angry, so, I contacted (with the help of some friends), syndicat de locataire, to verify my flat.
-I received the letter from syndicat, and when i went back home to check my mail, all the other letters were fine but that was opened. so the landlord started to sniff what i was thinking to do. He called me nearly 10 times and sent me sms that i havent paid the rent for that month (syndicat told me not to pay), and today there was another guy who tried to call me and left a voice mail, that he is calling about the appartment, and i need to call back. And I wont.
this is my story, until now. I dont have a clue how does this end up, the landlord is trying to call me even more often by now. I moved away from there, I couldn't sleep and i was too scared to stay. now my situation is way better, but still i'm too scared to be alone and go to school, of course the landlord knows where i study, and if not, he can find it from my laptop. I talked with the policemen, they tried to call to the landlord, but he never answered. So people, wish me luck, and i wish luck for everyone who is looking a place to live, there is so many bad people like my landlord, so pay attention!
SO PLEASE DO NOT DO ANYTHING LIKE CONTRACTS ETC WITH MUSTAPHA AMRANI!
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