Took some time off to enjoy the pool

[u/LAngelo-Misterioso]

I had taken this week off work and expected to be able to enjoy the pool. The lease says we are to pay $150/month for weekly pool cleaning services but they didn’t come out this week and barely cleaned last week. Come to find out the landlord is “in between pool cleaners” and didn’t tell us.

[u/mtraven23]

and some compensation for failing to provide a service. Presumably, the pool is one of the reasons the OP rents this place. If that is unavailable, some reduction in rent seems appropriate.

[u/Starbreiz → u/mtraven23]

Since amenities usually aren't part of the lease, Ive been told several times that I'll never see a reduction due to unavailable amenities. Our pool was closed when ducks took it over due to all the poop

[u/Crime_Dawg → u/Starbreiz]

Very frequently there is a list of amenities within a lease document. In the case of charging a "pool cleaning fee", there sure as fuck is going to be something in the lease about it. At the very least, they're probably in violation and you could consider the possibility of legally breaking it without owing fees, due to them not providing the documented services.

[u/TrulyOutrageous42 → u/Crime_Dawg]

the possibility of legally breaking it without owing fees

While this is a useful capacity for truly awful landlords, it's absurd that the government is just like "oh, sure, they can break contracts / break the law and your only option in most cases is to just move out so they can do it to someone else until they find a tenant who won't complain", like if they provide any heat but it's not adequate (e.g. only 55* midwinter) you can't get most cities to enforce their own laws, it just allows you to move out which is MUCH easier said than done.

[u/EarlGrayTea-Hawt → u/Starbreiz]

OP pays a pool cleaning fee, though. That's a services charge and if you fail to perform the service, the fee needs to be pro-rated out for the duration of the services disruption... at least via my state's laws.

My mom was a property manager and when one of her pool properties was doing repairs on the pool, she subtracted pro-rated fees out for the two pool cleanings that were not performed because of that disruption. They still paid for the two that happened. It's pretty standard here. He might consult his state's laws to be sure it isn't where he is.

[u/SolitaryMassacre → u/Starbreiz]

Amenities typically are else there is no legal contract allowing you to use it.

However, that said, it still doesn't matter. If it is part of the lease like it says "pool access" it doesn't mean the RENT itself is part of the pool access, unless its a separate charge (like the pool cleaning fee) so even if the pool didn't exist for OP, the only thing that would change in their rent is the pool cleaning fee. But the rent itself would stay the same.

Which is exactly why your rent didn't change. Personally, if you can find other places for cheaper, I would leave. We 100% rent a place for the amenities.

[u/cantadmittoposting → u/Starbreiz]

On the one hand, this looks like a private backyard pool though; i can "understand" (sort of) large apartment complexes being unable to precisely gauge amenity availability or to "fairly" refund those who were actually inconvenienced... I'd very much doubt that a leased home with a pool is treated the same way... certainly OP has a very direct and obvious claim to be able to use that pool and an equally obvious value per month attached to it

 

On the other hand unless OP meant something like "i planned to take this day off several weeks ago" I can't possibly fathom why a pool they should be able to see daily surprised them with its lack of cleanliness after they took a day off?

[u/mtraven23 → u/Starbreiz]

yah, I have no idea how the actual legalities work. I just talking about whats right.

[u/cwallzz → u/Starbreiz]

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[u/Starbreiz → u/cwallzz]

Cwallzz, are you ok? That read a bit like you had a stroke.

[u/cwallzz → u/Starbreiz]

Yeah idk, I guess my phone decided to make a comment while in my pocket 😂

[u/freeradioforall → u/mtraven23]

and some compensation for failing to provide a service.

This is america. There will be no refund for the fee and no compensation for anything lost

[u/reluctantlyjoining → u/mtraven23]

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