My Apartment is Falling Apart

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[@storytimewithjeff]

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[@alex.g7317]

I love Brilliant, but I’m anything but :(

[@SuperVGAlex]

Ain’t nobody signing up what you think we rich college students?

[@leifxsayhi3466]

Jeff moved from a Soviet gulag into a slum. What an improvement!

[@the_expidition427]

Making out of the gulags with this one

[@parpour9717]

Bro what post appcalyptic school do u even go to

[@Corvid_Collector]

It’s a Soviet gulag. Cmon don’t you remember the lore?

[@theallduck]

Bro goes to alcatraz or smth

[@mankey2919]

Yes

[@Immadeus]

bro goes to school in detroit

[@whatsthis8433]

I would guess SUNY Stonybrook😭😭😭😭😭 that place was giving gulag

[@RainbowLord]

As a Rentoid you should be bowing to your Landchad for their gracious offer of letting you stay

[@MageSkeleton]

from what i've found about the power landlords have, Jeff should be happy the slumlord doesn't increase his rent for having cleaned up the place. Also, while replacing things like the sink seems small and insignificant, i believe the slumlord can sue Jeff for replacing the sink. The slumlord has so many laws and things protecting them meanwhile this is why "renting" was appealing in the first place. What they don't tell you is once you start renting, the slumlord can increase your rent. And good luck winning in court over whether or not their in an "incorporated area" which apparently is subjective and vague.

[@chicagotypewriter2094]

@@MageSkeletonholy shit wtf

[@fullmetaltheorist]

It's over for rentcels😢

[@MyVanir]

@@MageSkeleton Is this a murica thing? Cuz over here, landchads have way less in the way of ability to dick you over.

[@Smartlad09]

I've realized that the main reason I like your videos is because they're basically diary of a wimpy kid books for adults, minus the pov of a sociopath.

[@spingleboygle]

diary of a wimpy adult?

[@CapitalismSucks_420]

We don’t know if he’s sociopathic or not

[@fodetraore6666]

​@@CapitalismSucks_420 well he either a sociopath or Extremely narcistic. I know kids that age aren't usualy the most emotionaly developed but greg is at another level.

[@obi-wankenobi1750]

@@fodetraore6666 is it a problem that kind of could relate to him? Like he just seemed like he was sick of everyone’s BS and I completely understand that.

[@rez505]

Brushing your teeth with rust water probably does help with any Iron deficiencies so there's that

[@stellanovaluna]

I doubt anyone has an iron OXIDE deficiency

[@Salesman40mm]

@@stellanovalunaI dweo I dowe

[@stellanovaluna]

@@Salesman40mm nani

[@12isaac00]

@@stellanovaluna bro gets iron AND extra oxygen from his tap?

[@stellanovaluna]

@@12isaac00 dang I never thought of it that way

[@thisguyisnotable]

im convinced this man lives in a lovecraftian book

[@zombieregime]

Its said that the eldritch gods are just intrusions into our 3 dimensional plane from pan-dimensional beings. So what we see them as is simply what part of them intersects our 3D realm. Like, if you were to poke your finger through a 2D realm all they would see is an undulating meat mass appear grow larger then shrink and disappear. And how would you explain seeing that to someone? You couldnt. As Jeff is a 2D stick figure.....I fear you may be onto something there......

[@IRandomness]

Ikr

[@calebblaha7854]

He talks like he'd write one.

[@danielkings2443]

Bruh it looks like your LL has violated the implied warranty of habitability. In such scenarios, depending on jurisdiction, you can leave and void the lease, pay for it to be fixed up and deduct that cost from your rent, or stop paying rent until the problem is resolved.

[@sazam974]

you forgot about the LL just paying them off

[@unconcernedsalad2]

yeah it’s shocking how long this stuff can be perpetrated simply because people aren’t taught their rights as a tenet. very insightful comments, i also hope jeff seeks legal advice

[@zombieregime]

Little note on the 'stop paying rent' angle; typically the regulations that codify that as a viable option also state you must pay back the withheld rent once the matter is resolved. So dont go spending that money thinking you can live somewhere for free because its a shithole. Do your due diligence and google up the laws, and learn some leagalez, until you understand what you're rights and avenues of action are. Oh, by the way, as a renter in many places you are entitled to the peaceful enjoyment of your property (as long as your rent is paid, its your property (technically under your custodianship)) so that might be a place worth starting your legal queries. DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer or a good person. I am not your lawyer or your friend. This does not constitute legal nor friendly advice. At the end of the day you are the one ultimately responsible for your own actions. By reading this disclaimer you consent to waiving any direct or implied liabilities of the commenter for your dumbass actions. In accordance with California Prop 65 this message is known to the state of California to potentially cause cancer and birth defects. Notice must be posted in a visible area at legible distance in any space accessible by the public. No trees were harmed in the sending of this message, however an indeterminate amount of their oxygen was squandered for immoral purposes and a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. END DISCLAIMER

[@manutosis598]

​@@zombieregimehello lawyer friend!

[@earmunchermuncher7639]

Sounds like a class d complex. Gonna suck for him

[@kalashnikussy]

The plight of the average college student really is a modern day Greek tragedy and I have no clue how it has become so accepted to treat “the next generation of society” like dregs

[@kyosokutai]

Generational hazing.

[@nerdonspeed3493]

its becuz of capitalism. They try to decieve people to loan so they can sell their product in bigger money. Every one is in hella debt so all u do is work and u will work to death and too tired to complain

[@generallyupsetfetus]

this guy lives in an mc's tragic backstory without being the mc

[@Ameya837]

💀💀💀💀

[@caster863]

You should've done a tour of the apartment before renting it. That's kinda like moving to a house in a crime ridden neighborhood.

[@storytimewithjeff]

The goofy part is I did and didn't realize any of the things wrong with it

[@spingleboygle]

@@storytimewithjeff**spongebob disappointed sound effect**

[@lih3391]

@@storytimewithjeffyou need some legal advice, what you described is literal horror

[@FlorenceSlugcat]

Little tip when touring an appartment before renting it: Dont just visit it. Try out a bunch of things, and ask to move some things around to inspect yourself. Here are some good examples of things that may reveal alot while not being too difficult or intrusive to do: -try out each faucet, hot and cold water. Check if hot and cold water functiond for shower, bath, and sinks -ask to move some kitchen appliance. Ask to pull away fridge and/or oven to see behind and under them. They are bug’s favorite spots. -if there is washer/dryer, as to see if dryer has a filter. If it isnt there then there may be buildup in the vent. Ask for the the washing machine to be turned on to see if it gets water. If there is a dishwasher, do same there. -try out the power outlets. -check that toilet works, if there is heating and air conditioning, ask to turn them on to see if they function. -ask to open closets in bedrooms or hallways. -check under beds -let water flow for a minute or two on each sinks, showers and bathtub in order to verify that the water drains properly. -check under sink cabinets for leaks -check windows, windowscreens, light up the dark corners of rooms with a flashlight to check for bugs, aswell as under couch. -try out opening and closing of exterior doors and windows, aswell as their locking mechanism. All of the above of course, you should ask tenant or landlord permission, but if the tenants and landlords have no hidden surprises to hide, they will usually let you check all thoses. Their goal is to rent it, and so, it is in their best interest to let possible renters verify the status of the appartment. Tenants and landlords who refuse usually have nasty suprises to hide. Additionally, ask to be shown the location of the following within your appartment -breaker box -cutoff valve(s) I dont recommend renting without a breaker box and cuttoff valve accessible in your appartment. Would any incident occur with wiring or plumbing, being able to shut them down prior to the damages to the building and your furniture being too disastrous is important.

[@storytimewithjeff]

@@FlorenceSlugcat ty for the advice! currently in the process of finding a new apt so I'll keep this in mind when I go tour

[@casey653]

Just so you know, if a landlord refuses to fix something, in SOME states you can fix it yourself and bill the landlord. I did this once with my freezer and my landlord was PISSED. There are some rules behind it, so keep a paper trail of every time you try to tell your landlord about the problem.

[@envycollar]

"suffering builds character" was wrong, it builds sleep deprivation

[@bigfool8819]

Bro was living in section 8 housing.

[@Ri_fc]

Ur experience in the dorms is my experience as an RA. Literal hell but it beats having a roommate

[@RealPersistences]

My first RA was vastly different from the one i have now. My dorm’s walls r thin but i was always usually the only one that heard loud noises

[@MyVanir]

What's RA?

[@Ri_fc]

@@MyVanir it’s worded differently at different schools but mine is Resident Advisor. Basically the manager of a hallway in a college dorm

[@projectincomperablesloth3324]

Your apartment is a notable event in history bro 😭

[@rez505]

"you know what? maybe commuting wasn't a bad idea after all"

[@joecool4656]

My college also stopped reporting crimes to us… because it was happening so much. People were getting catalytic converters stolen left and right. School security cameras weren’t even installed right. Police station on campus was relocated off of campus. Dumb stuff

[@katherineofarrogant6370]

I can't believe I thought an extra 300 (on top of 800) was unreasonable for rent. Water pressure, cleanliness, maintenance, and thick walls are worth 300 a month.

[@mattmaco9065]

There are laws against buildings having this horrible of living conditions. Maybe talk with a lawyer about possible solutions or do some research into local/federal housing laws. Hope this gets fixed soon, you deserve better!

[@minoxiothethird]

Laws do not apply in the fall of rome

[@Obbsnja]

Maybe not the best video to watch while eating, but I can’t miss a Jeff video

[@whisper3856]

I think I’ve figured it out. Jeff, somehow, has gone to hell and figured out a way to post KZbin videos from hell.

[@cristianionita8359]

your channel comprises so many excruciatingly sad stories that i use it as motivation to move on after the significantly more minor disappointments in my life

[@dragonrider9943]

Btw for all renters you havr rights and any problems you tell tour landlord about that they don't get fixed you can hire people yourself and take the cost out of your rent and if they try and fight you on it it's one of the easiest court battles ever.

[@XJScott]

My school UCSD had so many suicides it was common for me to leave the lab and find a grad student writhing in pain on the sidewalk with blood and brain splatter after having jumped off the CS building at 3AM. Officially zero suicides! All covered up.

[@RaW_Chaos]

what the fuck

[@kaboom6236]

Not my best « KZbin while eating » pick. I gagged a couple times

[@anonl5877]

I have also passive aggressively blasted music to teach a lesson to neighbors who consistently refused to STFU. In my case, it was Finnish death metal, and I was aggressively stomping and dancing around. They took the hint and I haven't heard them talk past quiet hours since.

[@LazerWolf21]

I gotta say one of the great things about living in the middle of nowhere (nearest interstate is 1 hour + away) is that my relatively meager government salary goes a lot further. For less than $1500 I’m renting a completely brand new apartment right across from a Harris Teeter. It’s a little less than half my monthly pay, but well worth it apart from the hot water heater being pathetic.

[@ausaramun]

Jeff, I missed your perfectly made insults and your amazing art skills and your creative story time flow :)

[@soap9277]

Jeff moving into the favelas. Moving on up in the world.

[@snowsleaves]

Man I'm moving off-campus for next term and you're stressing me out here 😅 The place I got is the highest reviewed in the area for mainly student housing and seems pretty nice but we'll see how it goes I guess

[@killianlamoureux3446]

If you can afford to hire someone to fix the issues you can legally take the money out of the rent you pay if they have been notified for a certain period of time

[@idadood2278]

I'm not very knowledgable in law. I do not claim to be a lawyer. I do, however, believe that whatever kind of negligence the landlord is exhibiting HAS to be illegal, and that literally as soon as you can afford it I would _highly_ reccomend finding whatever government agency can force the landlord to fix things, and promptly telling them to do so. I don't believe it's lawful to have chunks of rust coming through your tapwater.

[@josephrupsis4623]

To be fair, it's 800$/mo. And it was nice of you to deep clean the apartment for the landlady. As for the faucet getting clogged, can you get one without any filter (I.e. one that's like a hose spigot?) From there you could probably use a brita filter to take out the smaller and bigger particles and have water readily available. Also, would some sort of sound deadening foam be an option for noise? Hopefully things will improve for you. Thanks for the fun video. Cheers

[@Man-of-Steel674]

I remember watching this guy's shut down anyway video and him telling nothing interesting will happen ever again in his life.

[@PipeyardCentipede]

how is this even legal

[@Man-of-Steel674]

He is American, treating people like shit if they don't have shit ton if money is the norm there.

[@MageSkeleton]

it's "legal" because people who rent do not lobby the government. But slumlords do.

[@unconcernedsalad2]

it probably isn’t. oftentimes this stuff is perpetuated because people aren’t informed of their rights as a tenet. idk about jeff’s state, but these are real estate violations in my state; he needs to get in touch with someone who knows local real estate law.

[@biosavat9475]

Ahh America, The Land of the FREE & BOLD

[@papaicebreakerii8180]

Bc he was naive abt it. When u rent a place u have to check everything first. If u dont check stuff when u tour the jawn ur liable to get scammed

[@eldrago19]

Thanks for helping put my problems into perspective.

[@aquariumnite]

This was definitely not the video to sit down and eat lunch to.

[@ironsilverback3200]

I'm starting to question if you've ever had a positive experience in your life

[@RealPersistences]

AAAA IVE BEEN WAITING FOR U TO UPLOAD AGAIN Im at college now and i wanna do Astronomy, but legit no one rlly wanted to work with me and there were way too many emotional and social issues from others. I dont wanna pay much to use a subscription on a site

[@rogerwilco2]

0:46 A yearly crime report is not something most schools do. Maybe schools in the USA, but not in civilized places.

[@RGBA]

this channel is a gem

[@JosefCreations]

Never been as happy to go to a community college as I am when I listen to this fella's horror stories

[@ziyanbatada7753]

You are back! Incredible

[@shortsandwich5573]

Woooo he has returned

[@redslate]

Nissan Altima is FWD. Image depicted is RWD. It's also exceptionally difficult to do a FWD burnout. Sus.

[@storytimewithjeff]

📮 the creativity of the people outside my apartment amazes me

[@Mike_Rogge]

Pretty easy, the parking brake acts on the rear wheels, pull it and stomp the gas. The automobile in question also may have been a g35.

[@trixification9132]

these once in 5 months upload give me life, it reminds me of oversimplified keep up the good work

[@danielpintard7382]

Oh man I just know the new roommate vid is going to be golden for us, but the reliving a nightmare for Jeff.

[@FrigidOven]

A miracle you've made it this far

[@josuemendoza3783]

Babe wake up new Story Time With Jeff video dropped

[@dadbot8480]

I hope you took pictures of everything the old tenants did to the apartment

[@fiqures1529]

Sounds like north Jersey

[@rue3706]

Fr, I was thinking this has to be NJIT lol.

[@harjingle]

you know its a good day when Jeff posts

[@seawarrior3323]

YES The prodigal son returns!!!!

[@sandwich2473]

Yeah that's about right

[@TheCrunchyGum]

damn bro lmao thats so scuffed, feel for ya

[@nitro5247]

I think I just found my new favorite youtuber

[@notabyzantophile]

You know it's a good day when another storytime with jeff video is released.

[@teazen_tea]

Bro my school is kinda a mess and my apartment is better than that. Although the previous tenants did abandon the place a didsaster, although now i know it couldve been worse, (We have on campus off campus apartments, which are school-sponsered off campus apartments) they're great. I love them. That said, we can hear ANYTHING from outside the apartment. Thr place smells like weed, and there's constant parties blasting noise but I have headphones and the less than 5 minute walk to class makes up for it.

[@lucycourt1000]

Ok I’m betting this is Uni of Michigan Ann Arbor

[@eirdonne_]

yooo hi jeff!!! :))

[@ThunderBird80085]

My on campus living was terrible freshman year. Dick heads above me would party every Tuesday and Thursday. The RAs would do nothing about the hard liquor and beers just chilling in their foyer every time they were partying. After that I moved into a decrepit house built in the 1920s for 385/month + electric and that place was average but the traffic noise was horrible. Now I'm in a fairly nice apartment which never responds to maintenance requests but at least everything is fairly modern and usually not broken. (Don't ever rent from goldmark btw).

[@Dog_Biscuit]

hello again jeff

[@paulisaperson0516]

I regret watching this at lunch

[@Sebastian_Mejia]

0:28 with hopes and dreams☠☠

[@Sebastian_Mejia]

4:10 biohazards☠☠

[@Sebastian_Mejia]

5:38 omg too good

[@Sebastian_Mejia]

6:01 on par with what?!?!🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Sebastian_Mejia]

7:36 every insect in state☠☠☠☠

[@Sebastian_Mejia]

9:07 another trove☠☠☠☠crazy word

[@jackr2287]

If the apartment really was this bad, I'm certain you could have taken pictures and gone to the LL and authorites to sort out legal troubles. It's a problem to let such hooligans who were the previous renters loose, as much as it is to let the LL off the hook for not even checking on the condition of the apartment before you moved in.

[@IRandomness]

8:37 I see why the room was so cheap

[@Ribbons0121R121]

the sink issue is bad yes, but by far not the worst thing to have clogging your sink faucet personally, here at my dorm, the sink has enough calcium buildup to classify as a bone and i use it for nothing more than washing things that arent me

[@muha0644]

Personally, i subscribe to the "Mao" approach for dealing with landlords...

[@scurvymk5481]

I'm convinced I'm listening to a thriller novel, how the hell did this all happen to you lmao.

[@livewellwitheds6885]

"on campus housing" and "hell" are the same place

[@COGNITOPSYCHOSIS]

Bro's living like Tyler Durton

[@Guy_Sandler]

Sue them

[@lilspoon4429]

What do you need that cup for?

[@aneitalt]

This can't even be legal...

[@Name-ot3xw]

On the other extreme, my school sends out notifications every time someone's Iphone gets stolen from their unlocked car.

[@votecthulhu9378]

he is just like me fr (THERE IS BLACK MOLD ABOVE MY BED)

[@gazehound]

Welcome to apartment living! They're all like this.

[@ItsStaffDaddy]

Have you tried tipping your landlord?

[@raptorrampage2109]

Is the guy at the end a character I should know?

[@storytimewithjeff]

It's supposed to be the collegeboard acorn rip

[@LoraCoggins]

My school doesn't report any crime either, and it's considered the fourth safest campus in the country. Fuck that. The amount of drugs and SAs that happen here are insane.

[@user-tx4ic1ke6n]

Dwy 3 of reminding Jeff he has a Twitch.

[@TerraSept]

Where the hell is this? This is insane lmao

[@toastedsesame1591]

this makes me scared for university

[@thephantomplays8004]

Average Jeff W

[@JEFF-we9cx]

Fuck I missed this upload, I’m gonna bell so I don’t miss the next one

[@imaeintellec209]

Ad ends 7:26

[@Hamburger2005]

Thanks

[@pantherdev0123]

How is any of this even legal goddam Thank god I live in Poland

[@Ward3n_Main]

This is why you have renters insurance.

[@adamorrin415]

Was this the one about you rapping in a house. Discord, If you know you know

[@julianruano11]

any one else read the title "my failing apartment is falling apart"?

[@TheBigGuyBillyBob]

You'll make it out the hood one day, jeff.

[@ttgsavage1907]

on baby

[@Scotch20]

You might be able to get a bundle of cash if you involve a lawyer.

[@dstyKchp]

Was it worth it? Orrr

[@skychaserthedragon2046]

I'm pretty sure none of the buildings you've described are up to code, like, 235% sure.

[@Captain_Yorrick]

are you renting my appartment?

[@pup4301]

Why did you not ask to see the apartment you going to be renting before you signed the lease.

[@Ng8htmere]

Average New York apartment experience

[@tanishqvedak1862]

MAIA ARSON CRIMEW MENTIONED !!!!!!