My question involves court procedures for the state of: Florida, Panama City
We are having a issue on a rented apartment, because the bathroom extractors are connected trough shared pipes. When the downstairs neighbors are using their extractor, most of their air gets transferred to our apartment. And it happens that the downstairs neighbors are heavy smokers and they smoke in their bathroom, with their extractor on, to keep the smoke out of their apartment. But this smoke is getting into ours.
We talked to the Landlord and made it clear that the issue is not a witch hunt against smokers. Had the neighbors been using their bathroom to paint bicycles with aerosol cans, we would also be having the same issue. But the landlord stated there was nothing they could do because there is no law in Florida, prohibiting a tenant to smoke on the apartment, nor the lease contract has such a clause.
I would like the landlord to do either one of these:
* Modify rules to keep people from using the bathroom extractors in this way.
* Change the extractors for units with shut-down vents to prevent feedback from the shared pipes.
* Allow us to change the extractor equipment (yup, we can't even do that)
Is there anything we could legally do on this issue?
Thanks
We are having a issue on a rented apartment, because the bathroom extractors are connected trough shared pipes. When the downstairs neighbors are using their extractor, most of their air gets transferred to our apartment. And it happens that the downstairs neighbors are heavy smokers and they smoke in their bathroom, with their extractor on, to keep the smoke out of their apartment. But this smoke is getting into ours.
We talked to the Landlord and made it clear that the issue is not a witch hunt against smokers. Had the neighbors been using their bathroom to paint bicycles with aerosol cans, we would also be having the same issue. But the landlord stated there was nothing they could do because there is no law in Florida, prohibiting a tenant to smoke on the apartment, nor the lease contract has such a clause.
I would like the landlord to do either one of these:
* Modify rules to keep people from using the bathroom extractors in this way.
* Change the extractors for units with shut-down vents to prevent feedback from the shared pipes.
* Allow us to change the extractor equipment (yup, we can't even do that)
Is there anything we could legally do on this issue?
Thanks
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