Letter: Tenant’s complaints sound creaky

A tenant whose leaky apartment prompted her to call the city for help (“Letter: A squeaky wheel gets roof repaired,” May 2) may have more issues than just a recalcitrant landlord.
Any landlord who ignores the needs of his tenants and core structural components of his investment can’t be considered a rational person. Anahit Harutyunyan probably has a landlord who is not representative of the thousands of owner-investors who think prudently of their multifamily properties and maintain cordial relations with their tenants.

I have known landlords that with advancing age and declining faculties forget to follow through or become morbidly oppositional and defiant. But we are not in a position to know for sure if this is the case.

What we can surmise is that it is a very long stretch to assume that most landlords would ignore such a critical repair so as to take advantage of tenants with limited English ability. The ethnic tinge with which this tenant paints the problem, her declaration that such problems occur frequently, and the defiant tone on the subject of tenant’s rights, gives me the impression that this problem landlord has a problem tenant in his building.

Herbert Molano
Carlsbad