Q: mailboxes belonging to me and other tenants keep getting broken into. NO WORKING CAMS! Stealing our rent too! can we sue
To pay our landlord, we must leave the money in a mailbox which keeps getting broken into and someone is stealing the money from other tenants and me randomly. We are STILL required to pay the amount that was STOLEN. Not only that, even packages are getting taken from tenants' doors. When we ask the super to review security camera footage, he just says "they don't work anyway". It seems the cameras are just for show. Do we have a case to sue here? it's very unfair that people's rent continues to be stolen due to lack of security and they STILL have to pay the amount stolen. Thieves are SUPER comfortable in this building cause they know there are no consequences. I have plenty of witnesses who have gotten their rent money stolen from the mailbox in just the past MONTH.
A: You should make arrangements with landlord to pay rent another way- by mailing check/money order to LL; paying through a payment app like PayPal or Venmo or making payments into all’s bank account
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