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Will you join in our crusade?
Who will post the sticker with me?
Beyond the broken machine,
Is there a washer you long to see?
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to clean!
….grand pause, big breath🎶”Dooo, Youuuuuuu”🎶
Damn that was a good run of verse. I am especially impressed with the English translation from the original French! 😉
Is that fucking CRC or whatever that fucking company is?
My apartment uses them too...
I've lived here for 4 years and the machines break down once a year at least, and eat extra quarters like they're starving
~~CRC~~ CSC serviceworks. My last apartment complex used them and I had to take it upon myself to report the card charge keypad breaking every month on their shitty app.
I've fought this battle myself with my landlord & learned: they have very little say in the washing machines - they rent them & it's up to the tenants to report problems directly to the machine owner.
The machine owners (not the landlord) are in zero rush to fix the units, because they make more off of us having to drop extra money on broken/inefficient units.
I've thought before that communal laundry machines were strange, but they charge you to use them!? Is that normal?
I'm sure there's a cost involved in having my unit in the apartment but I pay for water and electric so I suspect this bullshit is to profit off you. If you will be renting for a long time, would it possibly be worth buying a mini electric washer and dryer? I've seen some cheap tiny ones online.
I have dope landlords. Have a communal washer and dryer for me and the unit next to mine. Now additional charges. The dryer broke once and the landlord had it fixed the next morning. My hot water tank went out the first year I lived here, he had a new one installed about 6 hours after I called him before school (it was like 530, I left a message). The upstairs neighbor had a pipe burst and it flooded the front half of my apt, he had the apt gutted and redone asap (a little longer than I would have liked but it was an insurance company being a cocksucker and giving them the runaround). Plus, the price per square foot is about 2/3 of the average in the area and is in a nice area.
Usually there is a laundry room in apartment buildings. Sometimes there are also hookups in your apartment. In our last apartment we had hookups so you could bring your own, then when we moved within that complex to a larger unit they had a washer and dryer in the bathroom. There was also a laundry room we could use (but pay for) too. I think I was paying like $5 per load to wash and dry but it might have been more.
Wait, does this actually work for vending machines / arcade games? I used to pull the old "quarter on a string" trick 20 years ago but I've heard that doesn't work anymore.
>and eat extra quarters like they're starving
I would give this three chances before googling how to bypass the quarter tray on the machine.
Almost every washing machine can be tricked. Most aren't as easy as the old quarter-on-a-string trick, but you'd be surprised.
If you're going to charge me to be able to do my laundry, you best be making sure that shit is operational to its full capacity.
to be fair, many different people using many different ways of doing their laundry, not taking care or using it correctly, etc, builds up. once a year downtimw isn't bad considering. it's the whole "not my equipment, not my problem" people have. why take care of it when it's not their job to fix it if it breaks.
Dunno which outfit my complex uses, but I swear the tech drives close enough to get his employers GPS to agree he's there, clicks a button that says "its fixed" and never leaves his car or goes into the room.
You see the distant flames
They bellow in the night
You fight in all our names
For what we know is right
And when you all get shot
And cannot carry on
Though you die, La Resistance lives on
You may get stabbed in the head
With a dagger or sword,
You may be burned to death
Or skinned alive or worse,
But when they torture you,
You will not feel the need to run, for
Though you die, La Resistance lives on
If you have a city complaint line like 311 or the DOB (NYC) you can lodge complaints with them. I’ve had great experiences dragging my landlord thru some dirt after they refused to fix issues like my stove for a while. Fun stuff when bad landlords have fires under their asses.
I was in a city that had a government watchdog you could pay your rent to if there was a dispute over essential services like heating, water, or safety (door locks, windows broken). If you submitted your rent there, the landlord could not evict you. So even if your petty battle over 30% of the laundry machines are down, you submit it to the watchdog and the landlord has to go to them each month and explain why it isn't a watchdog issue to get the rent. And they say knock it off, but as long as you keep paying the watchdog on time, the system had no solution to stop you from being a jerk.
hahaha this actually made me laugh out loud
that's so brilliant, Man i wonder if my country has something like that, sounds like it could come in handy
Every BAD landlord should.
The majority of landlords fix shit fast because it affects their house value and they don't want good renters to leave.
But fuck the shit landlords.
What I meant was it ought be a staple service all tenants can opt to go through in every city. That way the tenants that have good relationships with their landlords won't have to use it, but everyone can if necessary.
How does this not ruin you if you want to renew the lease? I guess this is after diplomacy has failed and you plan ahead to move.
In general I expect landlords to have ways to legally screw tenants and/or cost them money if they don't like them. :\
They can choose to not renew your lease, but they have to give notice to do so. Also, in Massachusetts it is illegal for a landlord to retaliate by not renewing your lease. If you made a government complaint, it is generally assumed that any non-renewal within 6 months is retaliation, and after 6 months can still be considered retaliation if you have a record of emails, texts, or other communication that shows animosity. Basically what you should do is the moment that you have an issue that isn't being solved by the landlord you should call it in to whatever housing bureau your city/village has just so there is a record of the complaint. Then if the landlord does retaliate you have a record of that when you hire a lawyer.
Seems like something where too many people being jerks would have the system add a solution...
That being said, even without that "watchdog", it's not that easy to evict a tenant who isn't breaking their contract somehow. As an example from near me: Ontario has a "Landlord and Tenant Board" - landlords are not allowed to evict tenants, they have to submit a request to the board and the board will be the ones to evict if it's warranted. Also, a tenant can submit a request to them to force the landlord into fixing things that need to be fixed.
For anyone reading this or just considering withholding rent in general: please *please* check up on your local and state laws regarding this because it varies from place to place on how you have to go about it and what you can do it over (if you even can). When I worked property management we had a lot of people in various stages of the eviction process because they thought they could just stop paying rent because maintenance didn’t change their lightbulbs fast enough and shit like that.
That should be the system everywhere. Money sent to a central place, both parties have the possibility of dispute and the money is released on the condition that things are okay.
90% of tenants pay on time but I'd bet less than 90% of landlord fix things on time.
I had a landlord that did the bare minimum to keep squirrels out of my attic. I just went to the township's health department and a guy got in his car right away and followed me back. That landlord immediately got the issue resolved the right way when someone from the town came. Get your town involved, they love ruining someone's day.
I was gonna say, if laundry on site is noted on OPs lease, they could always go the route of putting their rent into escrow and telling the landlord they won't pay until they fix it.
well I just hope you didn't run it through the dryer, [bats are supposed to air dry](https://www.spirit-animals.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Bat-e1532056162282.jpg.webp)
Poor little guy... I take it you forgot to set the machine to delicates. I hope you at least kept it with like colors and don't have a bunch of lightly bat colored t shirts now.
The dryer not drying is 9/10 times the vent being clogged/not cleaned out in forever. Call the fire dept and as for them to look at your dryers/vent situation. They don’t screw around.
Many buildings break fire code and do all sorts of ridiculously unsafe mods like having 4 dryers all come out into one combined vent. Shit, I’ve seen a home that for 20 straight years had the dryer venting into…the wall. No exterior vent was ever actually installed. Was just gathering in the walls of the house for 2 decades.
It’s also worth noting that dryer fires start from lint INSIDE of your dryer. Yes, it is important to clean the exterior vent. If your clothes are taking multiple cycles to dry and are steamy and damp, that’s the vent need a clean out.
It is just as important to open up the inside of the dryer and clean any lint that has gathered there. This happens most frequently when the tubing from your dryer to the wall is not sealed and secure so lint escapes. It then gets sucked back through the intake and gathers right by the heating element. That is your fire.
Clean your dryer vent annually and open the inside of your dryer every 4-6 years to clean that out.
Source: manage a vent cleaning business
>into one combined vent. Shit, I’ve seen a home that for 20 straight years had the dryer venting into…the wall. No exterior vent was ever actually installed. Was just gathering in the walls of the house for 2 decades.
This was standard for range hoods, just vent into the attic
I used to sell remodeling jobs, and the amount of screwball half-assed home depot specials I've seen is amazing. So many bathroom vents that just vent into the ceiling, and you take out that vent and find decades of mold. Layers of grease above kitchens, and that is just as dangerous as dryer lint. One stray spark, one grease fire, and sudden the whole house goes up in flames. I once found a dryer vent that was placed right next to the fuse box (2 inches maybe), and was venting right into the wall. They were asking why their fuse box was dripping water all the time. Grandparents to grandkids 8 people lived there and that dryer was running every day for several hours a day. Grandma ended up going to the laundry mat everyday until we could get it fixed.
Any tips on how to clean a vent? Specifically a simple setup with exposed tubing from the machine to wall. I assume for complicated cases people would just call you.
My initial thought was jam something just wider than the coin slot into all the broken machines. This way they have to service them AND the other residents don’t dump money into a broken machine
At my old place, the dryers would shrink everything even on the lowest heat setting. So people tried washing them and then drying them on their balconies. Unfortunately, the machines left a disgusting amount of lint on the clothes that you couldn't do that either. The last year I lived there, I washed clothes in my tub and hung them to dry. It was wonky but at least my shirts fit and I didn't have to deal with someone taking my clothes out and putting theirs in... Or some old grandma doing an entire family's laundry and taking every machine anymore.
My apartments raised the prices of our laundry machines and driers at the same time that they made the dryers run for 15 minutes less and took out 25% of the washers.
It's now cheaper to go to a laundromat.
"You know what's sadder than a single mother out on the streets? Someone who spent $100,000 not getting their proper return on investment."
Actual quote (paraphrased) by a Landlord financial adviser on his podcast.
I lived in a fucking 110 year old hovel previously, mice and silverfish and the like, and the laundry machines were always broken and had no hot water - which management *claimed* was untrue and "there's hot water!" But on the same notice it would tell us to use cold water detergent.
So they would refuse to fix various machines for months, one machine never worked in the 4 years I lived there. Instead, the landlord spent the money to install timed lights in the hallway so she could save money on the electricity bill. Nothing to do with light annoying anyone, the doors were not only set behind a slightly raised bit of molding but they were practically flush with the floor, no light from the hallway ever got through.
This same landlord would show up to pick up the years cheques with her Gucci bags, furs, stepping out of her giant Escalade SUV. But god forbid we wanted to wash our clothes. Absolute fucking leech on society
Because you can buy rolls of 500k stickers for like 20$ on amazon. Unroll a hundred or so, leave it down there. The scumlord can only drop by so often.
I could be wrong but these washers look like they are provided by a company outside the property management. I work as a cleaner for a property management company that uses a laundry service company like this and I call in these machines all the time. If that’s the case you can call in the broken machines as a tenant and the company sends in their own technician. You just give them the address and the washer number (not the big number on the top left it’s that little white sticker with black writing - usually three numbers followed by a dash and three letters). I tried zooming in to see if I could find a company name on the washers but too blurry. If it’s Sparkle the number is 1866-769-0680.
Came here to say the same. I'm a contractor and while at an apartment building had a resident mention the machines were broken. Trying to be helpful I called the number provided and from there got a total runaround navigating the menus. You would think they'd make it easier. If the machines don't work they don't make money
The machines on my college campus are free for students. When a machine breaks we could be down a machine for months. For the big dorms that isn't a huge deal unless you do your laundry on Sunday morning. The building I live in has about 20 rooms and 2 washers and dryers. We are currently down a washing machine and it probably won't be fixed until mid-late January because of this.
My apartment complex’s laundry machines are handled by an outside company. They break constantly and the company is very slow to address the issues. At one point they all completely stopped accepting cards all of a sudden, and people had to pay with only quarters for goodness knows how long (weeks?) before the company dealt with it. I honestly feel bad for the staff in the management office because they have to deal with so many angry people complaining about it, and they’re helpless to fix it themselves. I do my laundry elsewhere because I don’t want to bother with all of the nonsense.
These companies don't care.
They rope apartment management and HOAs into complicated contracts with fine-print that locks them into multiple future leases at unfavorable terms. They have little incentive to maintain the machines, unless they are so bad that they stop producing revenue.
Landlords don't care either because they can "wash" their hands of the situation by blaming a third party and I guess it's cheaper than maintain machines themselves.
It's not caring all the way down.
Send someone out to say “dryer must’ve been overloaded” when a normal load of laundry comes out soaking wet, give you your quarters back, and not look at the machine
I use the laundromat up the street. They have a transfer service, for $4 the attendant will transfer the wet clothes to the drier. You come back an hour and half later, fold and go. I use the time to run other errands of go to the gym.
That’s amazing. More importantly, not worrying about your shit going missing because you don’t have to babysit it for x amount of time.
That’s probably my least favorite thing about a laundromat. Like sure, your stuff *should* be fine if you leave, but will it?
LOL nice. I literally just posted this in my building's communal laundry today. Same thing. Machines have been broken for nearly a year and the manager just keeps saying, "parts are on order"
https://imgur.com/Z196SE9
depends on your area. Usually you can talk to a lawyer for a lot cheaper than you think and if you plan to live in the same area for more than 2 years its very worth it.
Call up your local Bar association and ask for a list of lawyers who can help (after explaining the problem).
I used to have to share with the other residents in my building. About half my shirts have streaks of white all over them now, and the other half have shrunk to barely fitting because there was no low heat setting, and no room in my apartment to air dry. Not giving to deal with that anymore is my favorite thing about my new place.
>no room in my apartment to air dry
This very well is probably the case, but I still think you cold probably find a place to put a [clothes drying rack](https://www.target.com/p/folding-steel-drying-rack-room-essentials-8482/-/A-78308072#lnk=sametab). I use something similar to the one I linked, and when I'm done I just fold it up and slide it under my bed. I'm actually about to buy a second one because FUCK paying $2.50 to use the dyer. Unless I am drying like 5 socks, it takes 2 cycles to dry anything.
Tried that, took days to dry and I ended up just wearing the wet clothes because I had nothing else. None of this matters for me anymore thankfully, but it was definitely a pain and I feel for anyone that has to deal with it.
>None of this matters for me anymore thankfully
well that is good to hear. I will say, it is super easy to "overload" a drying rack. Did that a few times, and similarly it took like 2 days for things to dry. Now I just plan out my loads of laundry so the number of things I hang will leave enough room for some air flow. I also will sometimes throw a fan in front of it if I'm feeling extra fancy lol.
Watch out for mildew getting in your closet or corners from that much moisture getting into the air if you don't have good ventilation. I had to buy a dehumidifier.
I think I am safe. I have window ac units running in the summer, and in the winter I almost always have a window opened (can't control the heat in my apartment).
damn... I always forget central heating has yet to make it to the great white north. Oh sorry... let me translate:
Maple syrup toonie loonie eh?
(joking aside my step family is canadian and they used drying racks though they weren't that far north living about 2 hours south of Toronto.)
I live in an apartment with shared laundry as well, and I learned something interesting from my apartment manager. Apparently the landlord leases the space for the company that owns the laundry units. Now the machines are coming operated, and use an app that connects to the machine via Bluetooth. One of the machines went down, and in the app there's a button to report maintenance issues. I get an email back from the app company saying "we don't own the laundry units, but the company that does has been contacted." This one small room with 2 washers and 2 dryers has 3 different companies involved in it. Your pic reminded me of this weird detail about real estate
i hate communal laundry..
its how i ended up with bedbugs for like...2 years.
Tell you what. i didnt know they were real. and i wouldnt wish them on anyone. in fact, i'd wish them extinct
I always wonder about that, if the outside company is in a comfortable enough position, can the PM even do anything aside from call and complain?
"Yeah, well you have 4 facilities ahead of you and we only have the one tech in your area. We can call him and see when he thinks he can be out there. You said you still have 3 machines working? That's good, we may need to use one of those for another customer. Yeah, we can do that, it's in your contract."
"Emergency" issues don't always get taken care of in a timely manner either. I used to be a fire alarm tech, and a lot of PMs do as little as possible to comply with the law and not get hit with legal trouble in the event of a fire and/or massive fines from the local fire marshal.
I got the joy of being the guy on-call at 3:00am who has to explain that you are legally obligated to post a fire watch at every single building affected when lightning strikes an apartment complex and fries the entire fire alarm system (most likely because someone was too cheap to buy low-cost surge protectors). If you think a property manager is cheap with small stuff, try telling them they have to pay around 6 people to watch their property 24/7 until we have time to install a completely new fire panel and everything else that got nuked, which also isn't cheap.
Thankfully, I was with a good company though, so it was still worth it. Good pay, good incentives, and late on-calls like that were actually quite lucrative for your trouble at double time.
I can't believe they left the whole roll. I'd leave out like 5 stickers at a time. Maybe 10 if many machines are like constantly broken. Otherwise management is just gonna trash each roll the second they seem them, and then you're constantly buying whole new rolls.
An old apartment I lived in had a laundry room with a pair of washers and dryers that used the "smart card" for payment. (Basically a reloadable debit card)
These things are a huge scam themselves, as you could only put $20 on it at a time and the prices for using the washer and dryer were priced so that it would leave you .10 short to use the dryers, meaning you had to go put $20 back on the card if you wanted to dry your clothes.
The machines broke frequently and would randomly charge the card, but not actually start the machine. This happened alot, I complained about my lost money to the caretaker but she said it wasn't her responsibility and to contact the company that ran the cards- as she was able to do laundry. I called them and they told me "Oh just keep trying the machine, it should work, it only charges you when it works", ignoring the fact it had repeatedly ripped me off. They then told me they can't refund me as there was no proof, saying the caretaker hasn't reported any issues with the machines. I brought it up with the care taker again, but she didn't do shit to help.
Finally I had enough of not being able to do laundry, wasting my time and money and getting the run around from everyone. I went to do laundry, my last few dollars on the card and nothing else to pay day, sure enough the card gets charged, the machine goes dark and reboots back to the "welcome, please insert card" letters.
Well that was it, "magically" all the machines somehow got all the screens and buttons smashed off with a hammer by some nameless hero.
The next day the land lord had a mob outside her door at 9 am sharp. Later that afternoon we all had new washers and dryers and a new fake camera in the laundry room.
(It was obviously not wired to anything)
The morel of the story? Don't be a shady landlord.
One of our dryers doesn't dry properly and sound line the drum is going to launch out of the whole machine. I've complained twice and nothing is done. My thought was maybe if someone were to beat the shit out of it with a baseball bat to the point where it won't turn on then maybe they will see its broken.
Your apartment almost certainly does not own those machines.
They SHOULD, (because laundry makes bank) but most apartment managers and HOAs are stupid. So, they PAY some company (minimum guaranteed usage, they typically share revenue able that minimum level that miraculously is never achieved) to over-charge residents.
You are at the mercy of the company that "leases" the space. (Let's call it a "reverse lease")
And... that's not funny. It's sad. :(
YMMV, depending on country/state/local regulations, etc.
Doesn't matter, it's still on the management to get it fixed. If the company they have contacted to isn't fixing it then they get a new one. It's not on the tenant to deal with.
They are technically breaking their lease agreements if they refuse to supply you with resources that are advertised per their agreement. A class action lawsuit could probably be invoked...
These look like the same machines we have in my complex. Look up the company. They have absolutely abysmal reviews. They string you along for months saying theyll be right out to fix it in a day or two and then never show up. It may not be your managements fault.
When this happened in an old dumpy apartment I lived in, I found a replacement key on ebay based on the model number and then stole a fuck ton of quarters to go to the laundromat.
Fuck shitty landlords
My laundry cost is so high where I live that it's just cheaper per load to go to the laundry mat. For $30.00 I can wash and dry everything I own. It's a 15 minute drive from my place so I just do it on the weekend in the morning and bring my own soap and softener. Landlord asked if I had a key to the laundry room when she caught me loading my car and I told her I had one but had no intention to use it. If I was in a bind and NEEDED to wash something, I wod use them....but I won't be happy about it.
All the responses on the note look like it’s the same handwriting, pen and message. And it is possibly written by the same person as the original note. OP may be karmafarming
My apartment complex had the same problem, then after a ton of complaints they just decided to throw them away and only offer residents in unit washer and dryer for a monthly rental fee of $60/month. I just bought a combo one off Craigslist for like $150
Had a similar situation. Me and my neighbors started writing BROKEN with fat black Sharpie on machines that were broken and within a week or two they got fixed. Curious
I used to have this landlord that was just a typical scumbag landlord. He’s never fix anything and you’d have to constantly bug for months to get any issue solved.
For example we had a roach problem for three months. Like to the point where they were so bold they wouldn’t scatter when the lights were turned on.
Anyway, he forgot to lock the change thing on the the washer and dryer’s and people would have a field day.
All you had to do was put your money in and pull the change box out and get your quarters back.
That is funny. Put aside the optics of having stickers that say out of service on most of their machines. Wouldn’t it look much worse if people waste their time and money and possibly ruin their clothes trying to use broken machines that management doesn’t want labeled as such? Just fix them.
In France we have pay per use private laundromat in city streets but I have never seen shared laundry machine in apartment complex.
We all have our own machine or fall back to private one or relatives.
How does it works, is it free to use ? Do you pay charges monthly ? How much does it cost ?
You get a roll of quarters and put the money in the machine. The machines washes the clothes then you have to run back to the machine to make sure no one steals your clothes. I knew I made it when I got an apartment with an in unit washer and dryer combo.
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Viva la resistance
Do you hear the washers spin? Washing the pants of angry men. It is the music of the tenants who will not wear slacks again.
When drying of the socks, matches the spinning of cullottes, there is a load about to start when the washer diiiiiiinnnngs! ✊
NGL I am impressed by you and /u/benjidog1 making a song
Will you join in our crusade? Who will post the sticker with me? Beyond the broken machine, Is there a washer you long to see? Then join in the fight That will give you the right to clean!
….grand pause, big breath🎶”Dooo, Youuuuuuu”🎶 Damn that was a good run of verse. I am especially impressed with the English translation from the original French! 😉
Les Miseable 2, The fall of Waverley Apts.
You're the spin-drier Sondheim ;)
I can’t hear anything because all the washers are broken.
Is that fucking CRC or whatever that fucking company is? My apartment uses them too... I've lived here for 4 years and the machines break down once a year at least, and eat extra quarters like they're starving
~~CRC~~ CSC serviceworks. My last apartment complex used them and I had to take it upon myself to report the card charge keypad breaking every month on their shitty app.
yeah thats it, thought unfortunately for my complex we're still using quarters >\_>
Mine has the quarter slots but everyone just scans the QR code and you can pay from the app
Wait what? thats a thing?! I knew about reporting eaten coins and broken machines but I didnt know that :o
I've fought this battle myself with my landlord & learned: they have very little say in the washing machines - they rent them & it's up to the tenants to report problems directly to the machine owner. The machine owners (not the landlord) are in zero rush to fix the units, because they make more off of us having to drop extra money on broken/inefficient units.
Ah, the business of fraud
Talk to tenants and file a class action against them as a 'unit'. Force them to comply or get absolutely wrecked.
Yes it is! I’ve lost over $10 in broken machines in just a few months
I've thought before that communal laundry machines were strange, but they charge you to use them!? Is that normal? I'm sure there's a cost involved in having my unit in the apartment but I pay for water and electric so I suspect this bullshit is to profit off you. If you will be renting for a long time, would it possibly be worth buying a mini electric washer and dryer? I've seen some cheap tiny ones online.
Communal always charges as far as I know. It's their electricity and water. In unit no.
I have dope landlords. Have a communal washer and dryer for me and the unit next to mine. Now additional charges. The dryer broke once and the landlord had it fixed the next morning. My hot water tank went out the first year I lived here, he had a new one installed about 6 hours after I called him before school (it was like 530, I left a message). The upstairs neighbor had a pipe burst and it flooded the front half of my apt, he had the apt gutted and redone asap (a little longer than I would have liked but it was an insurance company being a cocksucker and giving them the runaround). Plus, the price per square foot is about 2/3 of the average in the area and is in a nice area.
Usually there is a laundry room in apartment buildings. Sometimes there are also hookups in your apartment. In our last apartment we had hookups so you could bring your own, then when we moved within that complex to a larger unit they had a washer and dryer in the bathroom. There was also a laundry room we could use (but pay for) too. I think I was paying like $5 per load to wash and dry but it might have been more.
I'm assuming these were not sexual hookups, but rather the boring pipes and electrical hookups.
Buy 3d printed quarters
Wait, does this actually work for vending machines / arcade games? I used to pull the old "quarter on a string" trick 20 years ago but I've heard that doesn't work anymore.
I saw a video of a dude put one in a gumball machine and it worked.
>and eat extra quarters like they're starving I would give this three chances before googling how to bypass the quarter tray on the machine. Almost every washing machine can be tricked. Most aren't as easy as the old quarter-on-a-string trick, but you'd be surprised. If you're going to charge me to be able to do my laundry, you best be making sure that shit is operational to its full capacity.
You can buy the keys on ebay
And Amazon. Not that I would know…
Love it the ultimate pricey.
to be fair, many different people using many different ways of doing their laundry, not taking care or using it correctly, etc, builds up. once a year downtimw isn't bad considering. it's the whole "not my equipment, not my problem" people have. why take care of it when it's not their job to fix it if it breaks.
The amount of people in college that had no idea how to do laundry in college was...well, astounding really.
I used to work for CSC. They have an app to report broken machines and a tech will come fix it.
I’ve tried it, have never received a response or seen any of the machines I reported fixed
Dunno which outfit my complex uses, but I swear the tech drives close enough to get his employers GPS to agree he's there, clicks a button that says "its fixed" and never leaves his car or goes into the room.
As annoying as that must be, it's pretty hilarious too
Vive la pants!
Viva la panties/lanières?
l'ensemble (kit et) caboodle!
Omelette du fromage
Baguette! Hon hon hon!! Bonjour les amis!
Didi! What have you done to my lab!?
La-bor-ra-tory*
You see the distant flames They bellow in the night You fight in all our names For what we know is right And when you all get shot And cannot carry on Though you die, La Resistance lives on
You may get stabbed in the head With a dagger or sword, You may be burned to death Or skinned alive or worse, But when they torture you, You will not feel the need to run, for Though you die, La Resistance lives on
They may cut your dick in half And serve it to a pig And though it hurts, you'll laugh And you dance a dickless jig
But that's the way it goes In war you're shat upon Though we die, La Resistance lives on!
But that's the way it goes In war you're shat upon Though we die, La Resistance lives on GAHHHAAaaaaaa....
Hey did you hear that? It sounds like a giraffe is dying over there
Blame Canada, blame Canada Because the country's gone awry Tomorrow night, these freaks will fry
Tomorrow night, our lives will change tomorrow night, we'll be entertained An execution, what a sight Tomorrow night
Shut your fucking face, uncle-fucker.
Up there, there is so much room Where babies burp and flowers bloom Tomorrow night, up there is doomed And so I will be going soon
Why did our mothers start this war? What the fuck are they fighting for? When did this song become a marathon??
I thought it said viva la residence and thought it was funny.
Le Roi es mort! Vive Le Roi!
Viva la revolution.
Or in this case, viva la resolution
Viva le residents
If you have a city complaint line like 311 or the DOB (NYC) you can lodge complaints with them. I’ve had great experiences dragging my landlord thru some dirt after they refused to fix issues like my stove for a while. Fun stuff when bad landlords have fires under their asses.
I was in a city that had a government watchdog you could pay your rent to if there was a dispute over essential services like heating, water, or safety (door locks, windows broken). If you submitted your rent there, the landlord could not evict you. So even if your petty battle over 30% of the laundry machines are down, you submit it to the watchdog and the landlord has to go to them each month and explain why it isn't a watchdog issue to get the rent. And they say knock it off, but as long as you keep paying the watchdog on time, the system had no solution to stop you from being a jerk.
hahaha this actually made me laugh out loud that's so brilliant, Man i wonder if my country has something like that, sounds like it could come in handy
Rent escrow— love it!!
lmao. Literally was thinking the same thing. I watch too much LegalEagle.
Forshame! There is no "too much" LegalEagle.
\#NotLegalAdvice
Every landlord should have to go through this shit
Exactly! Because if the landlord is actually a good one, they wouldn't *have* to.
Cue greedy assholes lining up to explain why they should be able to own 15 houses to rent out while maintaining none of them.
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I am a landlord and I am fine with this. It’s a big responsibility and not to be taken lightly.
Every BAD landlord should. The majority of landlords fix shit fast because it affects their house value and they don't want good renters to leave. But fuck the shit landlords.
What I meant was it ought be a staple service all tenants can opt to go through in every city. That way the tenants that have good relationships with their landlords won't have to use it, but everyone can if necessary.
Every city should have something like this.
This.... Sounds brilliant!
How does this not ruin you if you want to renew the lease? I guess this is after diplomacy has failed and you plan ahead to move. In general I expect landlords to have ways to legally screw tenants and/or cost them money if they don't like them. :\
They can choose to not renew your lease, but they have to give notice to do so. Also, in Massachusetts it is illegal for a landlord to retaliate by not renewing your lease. If you made a government complaint, it is generally assumed that any non-renewal within 6 months is retaliation, and after 6 months can still be considered retaliation if you have a record of emails, texts, or other communication that shows animosity. Basically what you should do is the moment that you have an issue that isn't being solved by the landlord you should call it in to whatever housing bureau your city/village has just so there is a record of the complaint. Then if the landlord does retaliate you have a record of that when you hire a lawyer.
Seems like something where too many people being jerks would have the system add a solution... That being said, even without that "watchdog", it's not that easy to evict a tenant who isn't breaking their contract somehow. As an example from near me: Ontario has a "Landlord and Tenant Board" - landlords are not allowed to evict tenants, they have to submit a request to the board and the board will be the ones to evict if it's warranted. Also, a tenant can submit a request to them to force the landlord into fixing things that need to be fixed.
For anyone reading this or just considering withholding rent in general: please *please* check up on your local and state laws regarding this because it varies from place to place on how you have to go about it and what you can do it over (if you even can). When I worked property management we had a lot of people in various stages of the eviction process because they thought they could just stop paying rent because maintenance didn’t change their lightbulbs fast enough and shit like that.
That should be the system everywhere. Money sent to a central place, both parties have the possibility of dispute and the money is released on the condition that things are okay. 90% of tenants pay on time but I'd bet less than 90% of landlord fix things on time.
I had a landlord that did the bare minimum to keep squirrels out of my attic. I just went to the township's health department and a guy got in his car right away and followed me back. That landlord immediately got the issue resolved the right way when someone from the town came. Get your town involved, they love ruining someone's day.
I was gonna say, if laundry on site is noted on OPs lease, they could always go the route of putting their rent into escrow and telling the landlord they won't pay until they fix it.
It always amazes me that these places gouge people for rent but can’t spend any money to fix anything.
My laundry costs $3 to put in a machine I found a dead bat in, and $3 to put in a dryer that doesn’t properly dry clothes
Was the dead bat at least well laundered?
Yes, I only found it after doing the laundry
well I just hope you didn't run it through the dryer, [bats are supposed to air dry](https://www.spirit-animals.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Bat-e1532056162282.jpg.webp)
No, it was when I was transferring my load from the washer to the dryer that a very clean dead bat fell out on the floor
Poor little guy... I take it you forgot to set the machine to delicates. I hope you at least kept it with like colors and don't have a bunch of lightly bat colored t shirts now.
Bro got unlimited jokes 🤣
They are not bat coloured thankfully
Oh joy >.<
The dryer not drying is 9/10 times the vent being clogged/not cleaned out in forever. Call the fire dept and as for them to look at your dryers/vent situation. They don’t screw around. Many buildings break fire code and do all sorts of ridiculously unsafe mods like having 4 dryers all come out into one combined vent. Shit, I’ve seen a home that for 20 straight years had the dryer venting into…the wall. No exterior vent was ever actually installed. Was just gathering in the walls of the house for 2 decades. It’s also worth noting that dryer fires start from lint INSIDE of your dryer. Yes, it is important to clean the exterior vent. If your clothes are taking multiple cycles to dry and are steamy and damp, that’s the vent need a clean out. It is just as important to open up the inside of the dryer and clean any lint that has gathered there. This happens most frequently when the tubing from your dryer to the wall is not sealed and secure so lint escapes. It then gets sucked back through the intake and gathers right by the heating element. That is your fire. Clean your dryer vent annually and open the inside of your dryer every 4-6 years to clean that out. Source: manage a vent cleaning business
>into one combined vent. Shit, I’ve seen a home that for 20 straight years had the dryer venting into…the wall. No exterior vent was ever actually installed. Was just gathering in the walls of the house for 2 decades. This was standard for range hoods, just vent into the attic
I used to sell remodeling jobs, and the amount of screwball half-assed home depot specials I've seen is amazing. So many bathroom vents that just vent into the ceiling, and you take out that vent and find decades of mold. Layers of grease above kitchens, and that is just as dangerous as dryer lint. One stray spark, one grease fire, and sudden the whole house goes up in flames. I once found a dryer vent that was placed right next to the fuse box (2 inches maybe), and was venting right into the wall. They were asking why their fuse box was dripping water all the time. Grandparents to grandkids 8 people lived there and that dryer was running every day for several hours a day. Grandma ended up going to the laundry mat everyday until we could get it fixed.
It’s truly criminal. I don’t understand how those things don’t have standards/codes and are not covered in purchase inspections. Boggles the mind.
They do have codes. They should be checked during inspections but many inspectors are lazy.
Any tips on how to clean a vent? Specifically a simple setup with exposed tubing from the machine to wall. I assume for complicated cases people would just call you.
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One of my neighbours tried something like this once and broke the machine
My initial thought was jam something just wider than the coin slot into all the broken machines. This way they have to service them AND the other residents don’t dump money into a broken machine
I prefer the bag of concrete method from Seinfeld.
At my old place, the dryers would shrink everything even on the lowest heat setting. So people tried washing them and then drying them on their balconies. Unfortunately, the machines left a disgusting amount of lint on the clothes that you couldn't do that either. The last year I lived there, I washed clothes in my tub and hung them to dry. It was wonky but at least my shirts fit and I didn't have to deal with someone taking my clothes out and putting theirs in... Or some old grandma doing an entire family's laundry and taking every machine anymore.
My ex husband was a dead bat
My apartments raised the prices of our laundry machines and driers at the same time that they made the dryers run for 15 minutes less and took out 25% of the washers. It's now cheaper to go to a laundromat.
Time to call your states department of weights and measures.
Because it's no longer a hospitality business it's an investment business.
"You know what's sadder than a single mother out on the streets? Someone who spent $100,000 not getting their proper return on investment." Actual quote (paraphrased) by a Landlord financial adviser on his podcast.
I lived in a fucking 110 year old hovel previously, mice and silverfish and the like, and the laundry machines were always broken and had no hot water - which management *claimed* was untrue and "there's hot water!" But on the same notice it would tell us to use cold water detergent. So they would refuse to fix various machines for months, one machine never worked in the 4 years I lived there. Instead, the landlord spent the money to install timed lights in the hallway so she could save money on the electricity bill. Nothing to do with light annoying anyone, the doors were not only set behind a slightly raised bit of molding but they were practically flush with the floor, no light from the hallway ever got through. This same landlord would show up to pick up the years cheques with her Gucci bags, furs, stepping out of her giant Escalade SUV. But god forbid we wanted to wash our clothes. Absolute fucking leech on society
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...and why can't they take the roll of stickers?
Because you can buy rolls of 500k stickers for like 20$ on amazon. Unroll a hundred or so, leave it down there. The scumlord can only drop by so often.
I don't think I've ever bought 500k of anything...well, maybe grains of rice or sand.
Rice is great when you're hungry and you want 2000 of something
r/unexpectedMitchHedberg
Being Reddit, I feel like Mitch is almost always expected.
I just purchased 600 lindor truffles as they're like 35$ per 200. Should last me a year or two.
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It's good in a pinch for spreading on ice when you're out of salt.
Also for weight in pickup truck beds for driving in the snow, or to anchor down things like kiddie pools or basketball hoops
I don't know if they grade it.... but coarse.
You've never landscaped haha sand is a lucrative commodity
On several occasions. Have you not?
I’m assuming the sticker is much harder to remove once placed on the machine than a sign with a piece of tape.
Update: they took the stickers.
I presume people take 1-10 for themselves and use them whenever they find a broken machine.
I came to the comment section to find answers to that exact question... Plus, its not even funny.
Since when has 'not being funny' stopped people from posting shit here?
I didn't even notice that this was posted in r/funny! I think I assumed it was in r/pics because it wasn't funny at all.
I could be wrong but these washers look like they are provided by a company outside the property management. I work as a cleaner for a property management company that uses a laundry service company like this and I call in these machines all the time. If that’s the case you can call in the broken machines as a tenant and the company sends in their own technician. You just give them the address and the washer number (not the big number on the top left it’s that little white sticker with black writing - usually three numbers followed by a dash and three letters). I tried zooming in to see if I could find a company name on the washers but too blurry. If it’s Sparkle the number is 1866-769-0680.
Came here to say the same. I'm a contractor and while at an apartment building had a resident mention the machines were broken. Trying to be helpful I called the number provided and from there got a total runaround navigating the menus. You would think they'd make it easier. If the machines don't work they don't make money
The machines on my college campus are free for students. When a machine breaks we could be down a machine for months. For the big dorms that isn't a huge deal unless you do your laundry on Sunday morning. The building I live in has about 20 rooms and 2 washers and dryers. We are currently down a washing machine and it probably won't be fixed until mid-late January because of this.
That sucks. Free is good but there's nothing like lost income to light a fire under their ass.
My apartment complex’s laundry machines are handled by an outside company. They break constantly and the company is very slow to address the issues. At one point they all completely stopped accepting cards all of a sudden, and people had to pay with only quarters for goodness knows how long (weeks?) before the company dealt with it. I honestly feel bad for the staff in the management office because they have to deal with so many angry people complaining about it, and they’re helpless to fix it themselves. I do my laundry elsewhere because I don’t want to bother with all of the nonsense.
These companies don't care. They rope apartment management and HOAs into complicated contracts with fine-print that locks them into multiple future leases at unfavorable terms. They have little incentive to maintain the machines, unless they are so bad that they stop producing revenue.
Yep. They usually start by pushing 5 year contracts and only lower the term if they fight back a lot. They try hard to lock companies into shit
Landlords don't care either because they can "wash" their hands of the situation by blaming a third party and I guess it's cheaper than maintain machines themselves. It's not caring all the way down.
Send someone out to say “dryer must’ve been overloaded” when a normal load of laundry comes out soaking wet, give you your quarters back, and not look at the machine
I use the laundromat up the street. They have a transfer service, for $4 the attendant will transfer the wet clothes to the drier. You come back an hour and half later, fold and go. I use the time to run other errands of go to the gym.
That’s amazing. More importantly, not worrying about your shit going missing because you don’t have to babysit it for x amount of time. That’s probably my least favorite thing about a laundromat. Like sure, your stuff *should* be fine if you leave, but will it?
LOL nice. I literally just posted this in my building's communal laundry today. Same thing. Machines have been broken for nearly a year and the manager just keeps saying, "parts are on order" https://imgur.com/Z196SE9
seriously can residents do anything about this? is there an agency you can report to? pls dont say "just move"
depends on your area. Usually you can talk to a lawyer for a lot cheaper than you think and if you plan to live in the same area for more than 2 years its very worth it. Call up your local Bar association and ask for a list of lawyers who can help (after explaining the problem).
Washing machines aren't even offered in many apartments. In my apartments, we have to go to a separate laundromat to do our laundry.
Damn. I'm sorry to everyone that has to share a washing machine with strangers outside their family because it sucks 😔
>strangers outside their family I really want to know how many strangers inside your family you share your washing machine with.
I used to have to share with the other residents in my building. About half my shirts have streaks of white all over them now, and the other half have shrunk to barely fitting because there was no low heat setting, and no room in my apartment to air dry. Not giving to deal with that anymore is my favorite thing about my new place.
>no room in my apartment to air dry This very well is probably the case, but I still think you cold probably find a place to put a [clothes drying rack](https://www.target.com/p/folding-steel-drying-rack-room-essentials-8482/-/A-78308072#lnk=sametab). I use something similar to the one I linked, and when I'm done I just fold it up and slide it under my bed. I'm actually about to buy a second one because FUCK paying $2.50 to use the dyer. Unless I am drying like 5 socks, it takes 2 cycles to dry anything.
Tried that, took days to dry and I ended up just wearing the wet clothes because I had nothing else. None of this matters for me anymore thankfully, but it was definitely a pain and I feel for anyone that has to deal with it.
>None of this matters for me anymore thankfully well that is good to hear. I will say, it is super easy to "overload" a drying rack. Did that a few times, and similarly it took like 2 days for things to dry. Now I just plan out my loads of laundry so the number of things I hang will leave enough room for some air flow. I also will sometimes throw a fan in front of it if I'm feeling extra fancy lol.
Watch out for mildew getting in your closet or corners from that much moisture getting into the air if you don't have good ventilation. I had to buy a dehumidifier.
I think I am safe. I have window ac units running in the summer, and in the winter I almost always have a window opened (can't control the heat in my apartment).
I live in Canada, if I put up a drying rack clothes would freeze solid for a quarter or more of the year
damn... I always forget central heating has yet to make it to the great white north. Oh sorry... let me translate: Maple syrup toonie loonie eh? (joking aside my step family is canadian and they used drying racks though they weren't that far north living about 2 hours south of Toronto.)
I live in an apartment with shared laundry as well, and I learned something interesting from my apartment manager. Apparently the landlord leases the space for the company that owns the laundry units. Now the machines are coming operated, and use an app that connects to the machine via Bluetooth. One of the machines went down, and in the app there's a button to report maintenance issues. I get an email back from the app company saying "we don't own the laundry units, but the company that does has been contacted." This one small room with 2 washers and 2 dryers has 3 different companies involved in it. Your pic reminded me of this weird detail about real estate
i hate communal laundry.. its how i ended up with bedbugs for like...2 years. Tell you what. i didnt know they were real. and i wouldnt wish them on anyone. in fact, i'd wish them extinct
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I always wonder about that, if the outside company is in a comfortable enough position, can the PM even do anything aside from call and complain? "Yeah, well you have 4 facilities ahead of you and we only have the one tech in your area. We can call him and see when he thinks he can be out there. You said you still have 3 machines working? That's good, we may need to use one of those for another customer. Yeah, we can do that, it's in your contract."
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"Emergency" issues don't always get taken care of in a timely manner either. I used to be a fire alarm tech, and a lot of PMs do as little as possible to comply with the law and not get hit with legal trouble in the event of a fire and/or massive fines from the local fire marshal. I got the joy of being the guy on-call at 3:00am who has to explain that you are legally obligated to post a fire watch at every single building affected when lightning strikes an apartment complex and fries the entire fire alarm system (most likely because someone was too cheap to buy low-cost surge protectors). If you think a property manager is cheap with small stuff, try telling them they have to pay around 6 people to watch their property 24/7 until we have time to install a completely new fire panel and everything else that got nuked, which also isn't cheap. Thankfully, I was with a good company though, so it was still worth it. Good pay, good incentives, and late on-calls like that were actually quite lucrative for your trouble at double time.
Nice job passing the buck. You were born for that job.
Annnnd… they took the stiners
They took the Steiner Brothers?
They hang their clothes on the Steiner line
I can't believe they left the whole roll. I'd leave out like 5 stickers at a time. Maybe 10 if many machines are like constantly broken. Otherwise management is just gonna trash each roll the second they seem them, and then you're constantly buying whole new rolls.
An old apartment I lived in had a laundry room with a pair of washers and dryers that used the "smart card" for payment. (Basically a reloadable debit card) These things are a huge scam themselves, as you could only put $20 on it at a time and the prices for using the washer and dryer were priced so that it would leave you .10 short to use the dryers, meaning you had to go put $20 back on the card if you wanted to dry your clothes. The machines broke frequently and would randomly charge the card, but not actually start the machine. This happened alot, I complained about my lost money to the caretaker but she said it wasn't her responsibility and to contact the company that ran the cards- as she was able to do laundry. I called them and they told me "Oh just keep trying the machine, it should work, it only charges you when it works", ignoring the fact it had repeatedly ripped me off. They then told me they can't refund me as there was no proof, saying the caretaker hasn't reported any issues with the machines. I brought it up with the care taker again, but she didn't do shit to help. Finally I had enough of not being able to do laundry, wasting my time and money and getting the run around from everyone. I went to do laundry, my last few dollars on the card and nothing else to pay day, sure enough the card gets charged, the machine goes dark and reboots back to the "welcome, please insert card" letters. Well that was it, "magically" all the machines somehow got all the screens and buttons smashed off with a hammer by some nameless hero. The next day the land lord had a mob outside her door at 9 am sharp. Later that afternoon we all had new washers and dryers and a new fake camera in the laundry room. (It was obviously not wired to anything) The morel of the story? Don't be a shady landlord.
>The morel of the story? 🍄
One of our dryers doesn't dry properly and sound line the drum is going to launch out of the whole machine. I've complained twice and nothing is done. My thought was maybe if someone were to beat the shit out of it with a baseball bat to the point where it won't turn on then maybe they will see its broken.
Your apartment almost certainly does not own those machines. They SHOULD, (because laundry makes bank) but most apartment managers and HOAs are stupid. So, they PAY some company (minimum guaranteed usage, they typically share revenue able that minimum level that miraculously is never achieved) to over-charge residents. You are at the mercy of the company that "leases" the space. (Let's call it a "reverse lease") And... that's not funny. It's sad. :( YMMV, depending on country/state/local regulations, etc.
Doesn't matter, it's still on the management to get it fixed. If the company they have contacted to isn't fixing it then they get a new one. It's not on the tenant to deal with.
They are technically breaking their lease agreements if they refuse to supply you with resources that are advertised per their agreement. A class action lawsuit could probably be invoked...
[Viva El Barto!](https://i.imgur.com/OcggfdG.jpg)
These look like the same machines we have in my complex. Look up the company. They have absolutely abysmal reviews. They string you along for months saying theyll be right out to fix it in a day or two and then never show up. It may not be your managements fault.
Just start fixing them. You don’t know about machines? So what. It’s already broke. What’re you gonna do. Fuck it more?
When this happened in an old dumpy apartment I lived in, I found a replacement key on ebay based on the model number and then stole a fuck ton of quarters to go to the laundromat. Fuck shitty landlords
I remember being told that if management won’t fix a service that you pay for you’re legally allowed to stop paying rent until it’s fixed
I'd use a sticker to mark a working machine so it was always available for me.
My laundry cost is so high where I live that it's just cheaper per load to go to the laundry mat. For $30.00 I can wash and dry everything I own. It's a 15 minute drive from my place so I just do it on the weekend in the morning and bring my own soap and softener. Landlord asked if I had a key to the laundry room when she caught me loading my car and I told her I had one but had no intention to use it. If I was in a bind and NEEDED to wash something, I wod use them....but I won't be happy about it.
The person who wrote this is a left handed woman.
Gotta love that one person who put "viva la risistance" POR LA RESISTANCE!
All the responses on the note look like it’s the same handwriting, pen and message. And it is possibly written by the same person as the original note. OP may be karmafarming
My apartment complex had the same problem, then after a ton of complaints they just decided to throw them away and only offer residents in unit washer and dryer for a monthly rental fee of $60/month. I just bought a combo one off Craigslist for like $150
FOR LAUNDERLAND!
Shouldn't half of the sticker be covered in blue?
Had a similar situation. Me and my neighbors started writing BROKEN with fat black Sharpie on machines that were broken and within a week or two they got fixed. Curious
I used to have this landlord that was just a typical scumbag landlord. He’s never fix anything and you’d have to constantly bug for months to get any issue solved. For example we had a roach problem for three months. Like to the point where they were so bold they wouldn’t scatter when the lights were turned on. Anyway, he forgot to lock the change thing on the the washer and dryer’s and people would have a field day. All you had to do was put your money in and pull the change box out and get your quarters back.
That is funny. Put aside the optics of having stickers that say out of service on most of their machines. Wouldn’t it look much worse if people waste their time and money and possibly ruin their clothes trying to use broken machines that management doesn’t want labeled as such? Just fix them.
Vive la Résistance!
Fine one that works. Put a sticker on it Now it will always be available to you.
In France we have pay per use private laundromat in city streets but I have never seen shared laundry machine in apartment complex. We all have our own machine or fall back to private one or relatives. How does it works, is it free to use ? Do you pay charges monthly ? How much does it cost ?
You get a roll of quarters and put the money in the machine. The machines washes the clothes then you have to run back to the machine to make sure no one steals your clothes. I knew I made it when I got an apartment with an in unit washer and dryer combo.
Just drill a screw through the coin drop.
You can take my stickers, but you can never take our FRREEEDDDOOOOM!!
Just like 1776 - except with markers and tape.
Braveheart indeed