I think my refrigerator is failing. Should I just buy and new one and hope the landlord reimbursed me?

It’s been fixed several times already and today all of my food in the fridge was just cool.
My freezer food was still frozen but I don’t want it to thaw and refreeze if it should fail too.

(The fridge came with the apartment and is actually pretty old)

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GoodoldBob · 61-69, M

If you live in a temperate zone your back porch is probably cold enough to keep your food fresh until you get a new refrigerator. Stick it out until it dies and you can get the landlord to replace it - hopefully it fails before spring

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KaysHealingPath · 36-40, F

@GoodoldBob ice packs

GoodoldBob · 61-69, M

@KaysHealingPath Good luck. It would stink to get stuck paying for it when it is really the landlord's responsibility

KaysHealingPath · 36-40, F

@GoodoldBob agreed. In all of my years renting this has been the only fridge to ever have problems but it’s really old.
But if he doesn’t want to replace it I’m going to tell him to come pick it up and put it in his garage as I will be buying my own and I WILL be taking it with me when I move.
And none of this nonsense of him wanting to put it in the garage here as I rent it and pay for the space for my cars and husbands tools.

TheProphet · M

Don't do that Kay. He may not reimburse you. If you do buy one at least it will be yours to take with you.

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, MVIP

He might not want to pay for the twin door ice dispensing Bluetooth Gordon Ramsey model .. he might be thinking second hand $50 😏

KaysHealingPath · 36-40, F

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout I don’t want something expensive. I just need cold milk and cheese for my kids and meat that doesn’t develop salmonella.

Threepio

Ask an expert:

http://www.central.coop/content/kens-weekly-e-tip-it-time-replace-my-refrigerator

Personally, I would buy a reefer that you would want to take to your next home and tell the landlord to just remove the defective one. Make sure you take pics of them removing the reefer.

KaysHealingPath · 36-40, F

@Threepio My next house will be a property we’re going to flip so we won’t move into it immediately.
Which leads me to my actual dream house will have a refrigerator built in, I’m not spending that kinda money on a fridge for this place.

I’d go for standard and well priced

SW-User

Complain to the landlord and pitch the idea if it doesn't get fixed correctly you'll replace it and withhold it from the rent. (If your state supports that as a remedy, some don't. Idk IL law)

KaysHealingPath · 36-40, F

@SW-User it does

SW-User

@KaysHealingPath make sure it's in writing so they can't say, "we never had that conversation"

NickiHijab · F

I read "I think my refrigerator is falling" my initial thought was.. why isn't she catching it? Until of course I carried on reading

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TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, MVIP

Wait .. back up. What’s the fridge got to do with your lease? Is it supplied? 😳

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KaysHealingPath · 36-40, F

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout the stove here was hardwired too. This building is old as hell. But when we moved in the person who lived here had lived here 30+ years
The stove didn’t work, and they couldn’t fix it because the parts no longer existed.

My husband did all the repairs in this apt to get it to code for moving in. It was a dump, 2 junkies lived here and took advantage of the old man and pocketed his pension money.

Anyways they had to cut the cabinet where the stove was. My husband got an electric stove from one of his jobs (he does remodeling) and the client said to just get rid of it. It’s in perfect working condition and so we brought it with us. The landlord liked it. He said he’d pay us for it but since it was free I didn’t charge him for it.

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, MVIP

I think it law here to be hard wired. Back to the safety switches..,
Anywho. I’d be stoked to not have to lug a fridge around each time I moved 😉

KaysHealingPath · 36-40, F

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout lol well we’re shit out of luck once we buy a house lol and or buy a building to own and rent lol 😆

ajsk13 · 51-55, M

was the door left open and is it a side by side? if so the core in the freezer is plugged with ice , the cover can be pulled,the ice melted with a hair dryer and it will be like new

KaysHealingPath · 36-40, F

@ajsk13 no the freezer is above. And no it wasn’t left open. It just didn’t turn on at all today. Usually I can hear it- which I’ve told the landlord about even before we went to Mexico it’s been getting louder and louder over time. And today it just didn’t turn on but the light was working.

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