Our bathroom (shower + bathtub room) has had a bad smell for about two months. We assumed it was the vent needing cleaning so got it professionally cleaned a month ago. No good. We asked our regular weekly cleaner for advice and he says it's coming from inside the bathtub, which cannot really be disassembled. (Both he and the professional vent cleaner were mystified by why it would be constructed that way.) So we contacted the landlord shortly after, via our real estate agent at KEN Corp. The landlord has provided nothing useful so far, just advice to keep the door open, etc. There has been some promises of sending someone to fix it but I am not that hopeful.
As a separate thread, our lease renewal is coming up. I guess the "deadline" on some piece of paper they sent us has already passed around two weeks ago. (Although the lease runs for another 2 months.) So the landlord is trying to get us to sign the renewal contract, which comes with an associated one month's rent fee and small rent raise.
Well, I don't want to pay a renewal fee and live in an apartment where the bathroom permanently smells terrible! So I'd kind of prefer not to sign and pay anything until the smell is fixed! (We tried communicating this preference to our agent, who is acting as the intermediary and translator, but he doesn't seem to get it…)
Do you think that's a realistic outcome here? Or should I just suck it up and hope the landlord will do the right thing and fix the smell soon? Any other advice?
We've started investigating other apartments, but moving is so painful, and aside from this one issue we do like our current place a lot.
by DomenicDenicola