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LANDLORD RETALIATION, and My Fight:
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both."
- Frederick Douglass, 1857
"I choose words."
- Tammy Talpas, 2019
NUMB3RS
Counting The Days
4237 Days
Since I became a tenant at The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. Bassham Properties were not the owners back then.
3403 Days
Since I moved into my home, Apartment 2924 at The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. Bassham Properties were still not the owners.
863 Days
Since I paid my first crazy high water bill for July 2017 at The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. Bassham Properties were/are the owners. YIKES.
159 Days
Since Maintenance for The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. (Bassham Properties) confirmed the leak. [Click the pic to watch "The Smoking Gun."]
158 Days
Since The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. (Bassham Properties) insisted they would NOT terminate me, that I could stay...
90 Days
Since The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. (Bassham Properties) retaliated for my reporting the leak by terminating me.
82 Days
Since the illegal & unsafe water heater installation in Apt 2924 at The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. (Bassham Properties).
80 Days
Since I decided to start a site about what life is REALLY like at The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. (Bassham Properties).
76 Days
Since City of Austin cited The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. (Bassham Properties) for Land Use Violation(s). Case ID: 2019-213417.
Frequently Asked Questions
Verandah's terminating you. Why do you still care if they fix it?
On account of how I was raised: by good people, to be a good person. The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX (Bassham Properties) can never change that about me.
They make up my little community at The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. (Bassham Properties). They're diverse, adorable and utterly fascinating. They deserve to live in a safe and healthy building.
I've been ripped off by The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. (Bassham Properties) for 27 months, and it's still happening. Are my neighbors being swindled too, or am I the only one? That seems unlikely to me.
I share plumbing, cavities & plenums with my neighbors in Building 29 at The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. (Bassham Properties). It has 24 apartment units. My leak doesn't just cost or harm me. It puts my neighbors at risk.
What did I just see in the video, with the water meter?
I know it seems like the The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX (Bassham Properties) water meter didn't move much, but let's do the math together. (Remember: This problem is over two years old.)
Water Meter Readings
The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. (Bassham Properties) Apt 2924 Water Meter:
Starting reading = 1006.626 US Gallons.
Ending Reading = 1006.708 US Gallons.
1006.708 - 1006.626 = .082 US Gallons.
Time Elapsed: 00:06:01
The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. (Bassham Properties) water meter moved from 1006.626 to 1006.708 (.082 US Gallons) in 6 minutes and 1 second. (0:00 to 6:01 = 361 seconds).
Extrapolation, 30 days
There are 2,592,000 seconds in 30 days (a short month). [(60*60*24*30) / 361] * .082 = 588.76 US Gallons per 30 days. The Laws of Math still apply at The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. (Bassham Properties).
Who or what is Bassham Properties?
When I moved into The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX, Bassham Properties weren't the owners. Now they are. YIKES.
From the surname "Bassham" [pronounced BASH 'em]. It means "wild boar enclosure." Essentially, what we call a "pig pen."
NOTE: The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. (Bassham Properties)
It's owned by Bassham Trust / Bassham Family Trust. "Trust?" I'll give them this... They have a wicked sense of humor.
NOTE: The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. (Bassham Properties)
Judith K. Bassham & Howard W. Bassham of California. I don't have a pic of them. Here is a Bosch of two boars. #snarfle
NOTE: The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. (Bassham Properties)
What are you going to do when you run out of stuff to post?
I literally can't imagine that happening anytime soon. The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX (Bassham Properties) are a perpetual content-generation machine!
What it looks like when The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. (Bassham Properties) decides that hiring a lawyer is cheaper than hiring a plumber.
Seriously.
That's what they did!
The August 6, 2019 The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. (Bassham Properties) Maintenance Response, tenant request for water documents she's entitled to under Texas law, First City of Austin Code Investigation, Second One...
I made Apartment 2924 at The Verandah at Grandview Hills Apartments in Austin TX. (Bassham Properties) my home. I didn't want to leave. I wanted the problem fixed. I will share pics of the home I made for me and Zoey, the home The Verandah neglects.
Take-Home Lesson: Moving on from victimization without reporting it encourages perpetrators like The Verandah at Grandview Hills (Bassham Properties) to hurt their next victim. Stop the cycle.