TWO TENANTS AT Military Road, Bush Hall, St Michael, are calling on Government to assist them with someplace to live because they have been asked by their landlord to vacate his property.
According to tenants Nicole Aimey, a mother of six, and Brenda Joseph, they have lived in apartments at the complex for more than two years under an arrangement that included light and water utilities in the rent they paid.
They told the MIDWEEK NATION yesterday that in January 2013, the utilities in the entire complex were disconnected. And on February 2, the two, along with other tenants, were served with notices asking them to vacate the apartments by February 9.
Last Saturday their landlord, who they said resided overseas, visited them with police escorts and requested that they vacate his premises.
“He give us the notice because we talked . . . .
We made an issue over it because nobody going to be paying rent and water off,” explained an outspoken Aimey.
But the two unemployed women, who believed they were being taken advantage of, are crying out that they have “nowhere to go and we just want Government to help us”.
“He bring the police and they told him why he don’t go to the law courts and he said he don’t want to go through that long process because the court going to give us time before we leave.
“But he knows why he don’t want to go before the court.
“He knows that he wrong because we were paying him rent and he wasn’t doing anything with the place, got people living uncomfortable, and the people collecting the money for he ain’t paying the bills.
“We got we receipts to show we paying we rent, we ain’t dishonest people,” said Aimey.
Amey complained that for two years she paid rent for a “mice-infested” one-bedroom apartment, parts of which flooded when the rain fell, “and this is unfair that he doing this to me and my children”.
She added: “I just [want] somewhere to live with my children. I went all over the place and got to find $3 000 and all sorts of money for instalments and I can’t afford that –
I got six children and not working. I really don’t have money”.
Meanwhile, Joseph said she had sent out “a million” applications as she sought a job in recent months, and she too was in need of assistance. Joseph, who occupied her apartment along with her daughter and grandson, said she would be grateful for assistance with acquiring a job.
“I don’t have anywhere to go and since January when the utilities get cut off, we were trying to get some assistance from all sorts of people, including we parliamentary representative,” she said.
Apparently the disconnection of utilities took place because the landlord owed more than BDS$5 000.
Efforts to reach the landlord for comment proved futile. (AH)
