The story started off as a rolling chassis, then it turns out there was a gas can there (now removed) and the engine is also sitting there on a separate piece of wood.
Should've sweet-talked the landlady before bringing the bike in.
If you like the price and location, you should respect the owner and stop using your apartment as a garage.
My engine has been sitting here for a while. The rolling chassis was brought in when I had to remove it from my mother's garage due to her selling their home. The engine is sitting separately. I don't think this changes the situation at all. I had several things dropped off, including boxes of things that had been stored at my mother's house and a Jerry can that I didn't realize had fuel in it. This was immediately removed from the apartment. I have told my landlord this on several occasions.
Please tell me how I am disrespecting the owner if I am acting within my rights? I am not doing any damage and these parts pose no danger. If I invite my heavy-set friends over to my place, who, collectively, weigh more than my entire motorcycle would if all the parts were assembled, am I also disrespecting my landlord? Should I comply if she arbitrarily and unreasonably asks me not to invite them in because of their weight, which has been her only objection to my motorcycle parts? I know having these parts in my place doesn't "feel" right, but I'm trying to actually think about it, and I cannot see anything wrong with it. These are not causing any damage, they pose no danger, and I am not treating my apartment like a garage (the bike is not operational, I am not driving it in and out, there are no exhaust fumes, no oil, gas or any combustibles whatsoever). If I am wrong and there is a rational basis beyond the mere optics of the situation, please let me know. If I am acting within my rights, not causing any damage and posing no danger, how am I disrespecting her? Or, is she disrespecting me by attempting to violate my rights by trying to impose upon what I reasonable can and cannot bring into the space that I pay (a lot) for.
I am actually a really good tenant. When I moved in, I repaired all the holes in the drywall from the nails and screws from the previous tenants. I spent over $500 of my own money on paint and supplies and spend a ton of time painting the entire apartment, which really is the responsibility of my landlord and would have costed her thousands of dollars in labour. I always pay my rent on time and I do most of my own repairs and maintenance since it's easier for me to do so than contact my landlord and wait for her to send someone by, which, according to the other tenants, can literally take years (the 75 year-old woman has been waiting for three years for the landlord to fix the hole in her ceiling from a previous leaking toilet in the apartment above hers, and the tenants above me have been waiting for over a year to have a leaking roof repaired). I take care of my apartment because I have to live here.
Of course, I'd prefer to have these parts somewhere else, and not sitting in my dining space, but I really have no place to put them. On top of these absurd rents, I can not currently afford to pay for garage space or a storage locker. I also suggested that I'd move the chassis outside onto my back deck, but she freaked out saying that the deck was not built to support the weight, even though she had no idea about the load-bearing capabilities of the deck or the weight of the chassis. The chassis is under 300 lbs., and of course the deck can easily support that weight. She's just not rational.
It's not that I like the rent, it's simply that rents have continued to skyrocket since I moved in a year and a half ago. And, I think, that's part of the problem. My landlord is limited to rent increases of 1.8% per year (going to 2.2% next year) for current tenants, but, if her existing tenants move out, she can raise rents way beyond that based on current market prices. Market prices have been increasing far beyond what landlords are limited to raise rents with existing tenants. There simply is no incentive to keep current tenants. For example, the old woman who lives next to me has lived here for 36 years. It's her home. Everyone in the neighborhood knows her, and she takes care of all the neighborhood stray cats. She has expressed to me on several occasions her concern that the landlord keeps raising her rent. The landlord pays this 75 year-old woman $50 to shovel snow and ice on the long walkway around our apartment during the winter ($50 for the entire winter!). This old lady is on a fixed income and really needs the money, but she should not have to be shoveling snow and ice, especially at her age. But all she really asks of the landlord is that she not raise her rent because she will soon not be able to afford it. If she is forced out, she really will not have many options. Despite that, the landlord has lied to her and told her that the bank said that she has to keep raising her rent. If the landlord forces this old lady out from her home of 36 years, she can easily double the rental income from this unit. I have assured the old lady that she doesn't need to worry about losing her home. If she ever cannot afford to pay the rent, I told her that I will find a way to come up with the money to help her out. I have also offered to give her the $50 so that she doesn't have to shovel snow and ice in the winter.
