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Call your building's insurance company. That will get you a very precise response pronto because they're going to use this as an excuse not to pay out if anythi

Call your building's insurance company. That will get you a very precise response pronto because they're going to use this as an excuse not to pay out if anything should happen to the building.

nradov 8mo ago
How would a tenant identify the insurer?
- jacquesm 8mo ago
  Minutes of HOA is where I would normally get that kind of info. They have to justify the amount you pay and the insurance invoice is normally divided across all of the tenants.
  - nradov 8mo ago
    That only works for unit owners, not tenants.
    - jacquesm 8mo ago
      It would seem to me that you then need to have a chat with a unit owner.
      - nradov 8mo ago
        For apartment tenants there is often no "unit owner" and no HOA. Typically a single landlord owns the entire complex.
        jacquesm 8mo ago
        I don't know what you're trying to achieve with your endless stream of 'but' 'but', but in general if there is a problem you find the right door to escalate and you keep bugging them until they fix things. Resetting an alarm is going to look 'real good' if at some point the place burns down and for sure the building is insured somewhere and for sure that information is something you could dig up. If there is no unit owner and no HOA then multiple tenants will need to band together and get something going, initially we weren't talking about tenants at all, you brought that up and since then you've been tilting at windmills because nothing satisfies your needs. Obviously I won't be able to come up with workable scenarios for each new restriction that you impose because you can keep that up forever. I'm not in the 'oh, I will just give up because I can't be arsed to solve this safety issue' group, if it really is an issue - and I'm going on the assumption here that it is - then someone will care about that. The key is to locate the someone and then to state your case, and when one method doesn't work to come up with another one that gets you closer. Learned helplessness is not a solution to anything.
        nradov 8mo ago
        What a weird comment. I don't know what you're trying to achieve with your endless stream of useless suggestions but @arctic-true stated above that they're an apartment tenant.
        jacquesm 8mo ago
        That's not who I was responding to and you know that full well.
        happymellon 8mo ago
        @anothergoodname was the one with a problem.

Call your building's insurance company. That will get you a very precise response pronto because they're going to use this as an excuse not to pay out if anything should happen to the building.

nradov 8mo ago

How would a tenant identify the insurer?

jacquesm 8mo ago
Minutes of HOA is where I would normally get that kind of info. They have to justify the amount you pay and the insurance invoice is normally divided across all of the tenants.
- nradov 8mo ago
  That only works for unit owners, not tenants.
  - jacquesm 8mo ago
    It would seem to me that you then need to have a chat with a unit owner.
    - nradov 8mo ago
      For apartment tenants there is often no "unit owner" and no HOA. Typically a single landlord owns the entire complex.
      - jacquesm 8mo ago
        I don't know what you're trying to achieve with your endless stream of 'but' 'but', but in general if there is a problem you find the right door to escalate and you keep bugging them until they fix things. Resetting an alarm is going to look 'real good' if at some point the place burns down and for sure the building is insured somewhere and for sure that information is something you could dig up. If there is no unit owner and no HOA then multiple tenants will need to band together and get something going, initially we weren't talking about tenants at all, you brought that up and since then you've been tilting at windmills because nothing satisfies your needs. Obviously I won't be able to come up with workable scenarios for each new restriction that you impose because you can keep that up forever. I'm not in the 'oh, I will just give up because I can't be arsed to solve this safety issue' group, if it really is an issue - and I'm going on the assumption here that it is - then someone will care about that. The key is to locate the someone and then to state your case, and when one method doesn't work to come up with another one that gets you closer. Learned helplessness is not a solution to anything.
        nradov 8mo ago
        What a weird comment. I don't know what you're trying to achieve with your endless stream of useless suggestions but @arctic-true stated above that they're an apartment tenant.
        jacquesm 8mo ago
        That's not who I was responding to and you know that full well.
        happymellon 8mo ago
        @anothergoodname was the one with a problem.