The refrigerator saga

[badseed1980]

Yesterday afternoon, I took pretty much everything out of the fridge and freezer, catalogued everything (with the exception of leftovers), and chucked it. I saved some booze which is ok at room temperature, some veggies (baby carrots, celery, radishes, and some herbs), the butter (fine at room temp for a good while as long as it's not out in the open air), and the cheese (most of it was still in the packaging, all of it was at least well-wrapped, and that stuff lasts almost forever). I did put all that stuff in the fridge at work this morning, though, with the exception of the booze and the butter, which I didn't want to take the chance of squishing in my bag.

Still no word yet from the landlord, which is irritating. I am going to call again later this morning, and emphasize that we had to throw away all our food and can't buy more perishable items until the fridge is fixed.

We ended up going out to eat last night at the Summer Shack, which was rather nice, though I'd hoped to make some nice comfort food for pierceheart after his weekend of working. Oh well. Maybe tomorrow, if we're lucky. Fortunately, I had stuff for making oatmeal with dried fruit and nuts for our breakfast this morning, and there was powdered creamer (the emergency supply) for our coffee. This was a good thing. I might hit Trader Joe's today to get lunch-y stuff, but since I've already got veggies, cheese, and crackers, I might not really need much! I wish I'd remembered my list of damaged food, so I could check prices on everything I got from TJ's.

What I can remember:
Capers
Chicken and vegetable gyoza
Marinated mushrooms

I'll see if more comes to mind before I go.

Comments

[alfredmorris.livejournal.com]

Powdered creamers skeeve me right right the fuck out!

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't like them that much, but I keep a canister around as emergency coffee lightener, and use it when I've found I don't have any more of the liquid kind and I've already brewed the coffee.

[fyrebloom.livejournal.com]

Ugh what a headache! This is one of my biggest fears because our landlord takes no responsability for the fridge, it was left by another tenant and we are welcome to it but if it dies, it's our problem. *shudder*

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

That may not be legal (check your lease):

The landlord does not have to provide a refrigerator. If a refrigerator is provided, however, the landlord must keep it in working order." (http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=ocaterminal&L=4&L0=Home&L1=Consumer&L2=Housing+Information&L3=Tenant+%26+Landlord&sid=Eoca&b=terminalcontent&f=tenants_rights_and_responsibilities&csid=Eoca)

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

It's hard to tell from that whether they mean, "if there is a refrigerator in the apartment (no matter who provided it), the landlord must keep it in working order" or "if the LANDLORD provides a refrigerator they must keep it in working order." That might be the case. It's poorly worded.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

It's one for a lawyer to argue, because if I move in to an apartment, and don't have to buy a refrigerator, then I'm damned sure not going to buy one if the one that's there dies - it's a potential bait and switch issue.

105 CMR 410.351 and 352 talk about whoever installed the items as being responsible for upkeep.

fyrebloom did not install the refrigerator, the landlord kept it as a matter of abandoned property.

[fyrebloom.livejournal.com]

OOH that's good to know. Hope it doesn't come to that though, it would be a fight for certain.

[fyrebloom.livejournal.com]

He provides the stove and the dishwasher, he said refrigerators are too much trouble to maintain so he never provides them. The fridge we have is technically ours because we chose to not have the LL cart it out when we moved in (ok technically he never told us it was our problem, but...). It will stay in the unit when we leave though as it's a piece of garbage.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

Argh.

There's an argument that he provided it by way of assuming abandoned property when the last tenant left it, as he has control of the property in between tenants.

[fyrebloom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, like Badseed1980 said it's vague wording and there would be a fight. I'm hoping we don't have any catastrophic issues with it though. It already thaws in the freezer and freezes our fridge. *sigh*

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

my understanding in the event of a power failure, and i lose a LOT of food, it's worth claiming on my insurance. otherwise, "not so much"...

i know my apt complex got nailed by 400+ people screaming at them about wasted food. some of them were accommodated quietly. they would never go out of their way, unless compelled by law, to do the right thing.

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