my previous post from yesterday https://lemmy.ml/post/49529603
The good news I guess is that the timer starts on monday because the 3rd is the jurisdictional court’s (might as well say Riverside County, CA) holiday for the 4th. And after my last post I went and bought a security camera, so worst case I can document my window being closed if I want to be a stupid coward that lets bullies play Calvinball with signed contracts against me. With my fucking life.
And it’s just really important to me that the window stay open in my room. It’s a whole list of deal breakers.
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I don’t want to get fucking covid from the 8 other units filled with people here because I’m the last weirdo that goes to work and the store with a mask on. When I keep the window closed because of paranoia over this conflict, I feel like I need to mask in my own bedroom. And that’s fucked.
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This luxurious closet sized bedroom is too small for a full sized person and two large cats to live on top of each other. They need to be able to lay out on the patio and enjoy life. And they need to be able to run back inside if something scares them, like the many coyote that have wilderness right fucking next door and I have seen in our back yard with my cats running from them. Can’t do ‘open it when they want back in’ no how, no way. (There’s also a giant drama about gates that enclose a section of the yard that apparently me closing them at night drives them into a steaming rage but keeps my guys safe)
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There’s 80 pounds of goddamned cat litter right next to the window and 8 feet from where I sit at the computer and sleep. I need the ventilation.
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I LIKE THE FRESH AIR.
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The A/C is too fucking cold anyway
In addition to buying the security camera (fuck I need an sd card of course it’s separate) I also started looking for a new place to be miserable with a live-in landlord for too goddamned much money. But this shit is on a timeline WAY faster than that. Fuck.
So I don’t want to be cowed by this. But I also don’t want to get my life all fucked up by it. I don’t want this demon to steal a whole month’s rent (waited until the day after I paid this month’s rent the fucking parasite) AND a 600 dollar penalty if I lose. Not to mention paying 4x what I can afford for an extended stay room…
I’m completely in the right but on the other hand do you think the judge rents, or do you think it’s more likely they have some rental properties of their own and all their sentiments are with the law breaker psycho landlord?
Anyway this is my panic attack post
edit: I am purposefully not engaging with any comments on the subject of whether or not my landlord has a genuine gripe about me having my window open and my door closed in a room that does not have a temperature sensor for the A/C system. I offered to close the vent. I offered to have my rent raised to compensate. All was ignored. It’s about power tripping. So this post is about my rights in the face of that.
Op I’m so sorry you have to deal with all this bullshit, both the landlord and the smug assholes on here.♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
It’s 2026 and there are still people scared out of their mind of catching Covid? 🤣
I bet OP has had Covid multiple times already without even realising it. That’s how much of a nothing it is.
A quarter of a million people are getting long covid every week. You have fun with your kidney failure. I’m good still wearing a mask in the grocery store.
You sound like an unhinged crazy person, so no, you’re not good lol.
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If the door is shut and there is no censor I see no problem. These comment jesus christ mary and joseph… chilll or not to chill that is the question. This is a very long thread. Is this some high level gipity?. Some kind of social experiment? Or is it the drama. When it comes to people or their problems I am gentle but my heart wants to eat a billionare.
If the door is shut and there is no censor I see no problem.
Yeah that’s the situation. And it’s part of why I didn’t want to engage with the A/C discussion that turned into 80% of this thread. I don’t know if some sinister Russian agent is using subliminal pixels to make everyone angry in here of it’s a Banksy art piece. I think it’s just more likely people argue on the internet a lot.
I will be honest. some of OPs’ claims are hard to believe and weird.
but the first 3 accounts I have seen in the comments writing bullshit, also being against OP, have already got more downvotes by me than upvotes according to my client, even though I use downvotes very sparingly. that’s telling something.
yes, it’s likely someone is pouring time or money into making people hate each other in this place.
I will be honest. some of OPs’ claims are hard to believe and weird.
Landlord is a psycho. AMA.
part of the weird is the shared AC system should be pumping fresh air. I mean it sounds like cold air is coming in a tube to all rooms from a central place.
against cold air the solution is to put up some shirts. why aren’t you doing that?
why do you believe the AC system is spreading covid? is covid an active threat right now in your area?
I don’t have solution to the cats, maybe cat doors. but what will you do when winter comes and it will be cold outside?
Oh I’m not staying here until the winter.
And what the fuck is too difficult for you to understand about “I prefer the window open so that’s how I have it”? Why are you trying to solve a problem that I have said is not a problem for me?
“Is It Leftist To Open Your Window” – the greatest thread in Bodybuilding Forums history, locked after 300 pages of debate
It’s probably going to come down to the lease terms. There’s likely a mechanism to file some kind of complaint about this that would make the 3-days stop ticking, but I’m not a lawyer. If you can find a legal aid clinic, that’s probably your best bet. Power-tripping landlords are the worst and I’m really sorry you’re dealing with this.
YTA
Your lease may not specifically say that you have to keep windows closed, but it is likely that there is a requirement for the landlord to provide air conditioning. Requirements like this usually have a stipulation that the renter not waste the provided utility. That’s what your landlord is likely dinging you with, since the landlord is providing AC.
The only way to deal with it is that you’d have to sign off on taking ownership of the air conditioning. However, since it sounds like you have roommates given your fear of catching COVID at home, that doesn’t seem likely.
It also seems likely that this is going to follow you to whatever rental living arraignment you have. Unless you are contractually taking full ownership of providing air conditioning to a liveable temperature, you’re going to run into someone telling to keep the windows closed.
Have you read their lease/rental agreement? Doesn’t seem like it, so perhaps it’s best to not speculate. OP says there is no requirement to keep the window shut and also says that the landlord is refusing to provide a legible copy of the rental agreement. Wonder why?
The only way to deal with it is that you’d have to sign off on taking ownership of the air conditioning.
That is ridiculous advice. That is not sensible at all. I would never suggest to someone that they accept ownership of a system that could break at a moment’s notice if they were simply a tenant…
It also seems likely that this is going to follow you to whatever rental living arraignment you have.
Highly doubtful that it’d follow OP if they could find something better, with a livable space and more ingredients to live a dignified life.
A window open in that climate, even during the summer, is not a huge risk. If OP paid for the electricity (which they had already offered to do in the form of a rent increase), this wouldn’t be a problem. Sounds like they aren’t able to live a dignified life in their current situation and alternatives aren’t really present at this time.
It’s almost like if you are a landlord, it’s your job to make sure that people have the ability to safely and comfortably live in the places you rent out, as long as they aren’t hurting anybody or damaging the property… sounds like part of their job description to me.
I don’t know though, you tell me how actually landlords have it so bad because of the closet they rent out having an open window in a relatively dry climate and the tenant wanting to make it right and keep their window open by paying more rent. The horror.
However, since it sounds like you have roommates given your fear of catching COVID at home, that doesn’t seem likely.
…? If there is not sufficient filtering, OP is at some level of risk living with other people with shared ventilation.
I haven’t read the agreement, in part because OP didn’t provide it. I’m just providing a probable means in which the landlord could be using in order to push OP out on the street.
A requirement to provide a means of air conditioning is common in the warmer parts of the USA; it is a reason why the summer increased death toll stays so low despite lethal summer temperatures. It also depends on how the law is written; someone else would need to read the law to see if opening a window is considered acceptable or not.
And for everyone making trying to make a moral argument to me about this, I’m not making a moral argument. I’m trying to explain the possible legal mechanism that is occurring where the landlord is trying to push out OP as a way for OP to look at ways to defend themselves.
Your affectatious writing style and your constant references to a purely mind palace version of what you think the law ‘probably’ is resound to make you look like a sophomoric fucking moron.
You are correct that my lease agreement is a black box to you. But you go on to speculate that the California civil code makes it illegal for me to open my window?
I’m shocked you weren’t called on it. Cite your source, fucking nitwit.
https://castelblanco.com/renters-rights-air-conditioning-california/
Seems like California doesn’t require AC for habitability, but mandates landlord repair and maintenance if the service was provided when the lease was signed and the tenant moved in. Sounds like since you have AC, your landlord is required to provide it to at least one of the tenants unless it was newly installed.
It is a lawyer summary instead of the code, but feel free to dig into the California legal code if you want to argue back.
OP is very likely not responsible for that as a tenant. Unless, of course, they take your silly advice to assume ownership of an expensive A/C unit serving a house/unit with several tenants.
Sounds like you are in bad faith. Nobody suggests that.
You’re right, OP likely isn’t responsible for AC. That’s why the owner controls the AC, likely because they are legally required to provide AC. That’s what I said originally.
However, it is usually written into the law that tenants can’t waste landlord provided utilities, and this sounds like the argument that the landlord is making to the town. It sounds like this is just an excuse for the landlord to kick OP out, but this isn’t an argument that I’m making is good.
You keep mixing me up with the landlord.
However, it is usually written into the law that tenants can’t waste landlord provided utilities
Having been a scholar on so many laws. Just baskets full of laws.
You keep mixing me up with the landlord.
No I’m not, sorry. To me, it sounds like you are trying to confuse OP and get them to assume ownership of an A/C unit.
No. There may be other ways. They can look up the law and there might be an out for opening a window. I don’t know. However, based on the limited information given to me, this is likely the excuse given by the landlord to kick out OP.
Lol what did your imagination run out? You can’t close your eyes and figure out if the law you invented in your mind has exceptions written into itself?
I guess even prodigies have their limits
Regarding feeling like you’ll get covid from the AC circulating air: Covid appears to mostly spread in the air by the virus attaching to dust or particles in the air. All of the air in the house will be pulled to a single intake vent, where there should be an HVAC filter to filter all of the air (the AC heat exchanger would eventually get clogged with dust without one). If that filter has a high enough MERV rating (how strong the filter is) it will be capable of removing all of the particles the virus can attach to. This would mean that the air coming into your bedroom would be filtered in safe.
Regarding it being too cold in your room, AC vents can usually be adjusted to limit the flow into your room, or you could ask your roommates if they would be willing to compromise on a slightly lower overall temp, or if that fails, putting on some warmer clothing that’s easy to take off if you need to go outside.
I understand that neither of those things solve the issue of your cats or the smell of their litter, though. (A carbon anti-smell HVAC filter on the back of a box fan may help?)
Just to piggyback off this comment a bit (since I’m not sure I’ve ever rented anywhere with MERV 13+ filters). Try making a Corsi–Rosenthal Box with a box fan and 4 air filters. This might be beyond your price range since MERV13 filters aren’t the cheapest in the world when you have to buy 4 of them, but I’ve been using mine for years and they work REALLY well. My PM2.5 sensor is consistently on “0” unless I’m cooking.
While Corsi boxes do work, I personally find that just using a single thicker 4" filter taped to the back of a fan works better, as it takes up a smaller footprint and allows you to direct the air flow at something other than the ceiling. The thicker filter is much, much less restrictive than a 1" filter due to the increased surface area. The thick ones (20x20x4") cost about $28 on ebay, and will last a very long time before needing to be replaced.
The amount of people in this thread siding with the leeches who contribute nothing to society and will gleefully sentence people to death by lack of shelter is astounding.
It’s amazing how people’s empathy evaporates when you show them you’re a selfish piece of shit unworthy of empathy.
OP has more empathy than their landleech, as their landleech is a subhuman psychopath who has given up all of their façade of humanity. If you think otherwise then you’d be the first to die in a horror movie, you’d be the person that hides their zombie bite, and you’d the one to help an alien invasion annihilate humanity in hopes they’d spare you.
You seem to have trouble discerning real life from fiction… Op is the type to be so anti social they end up homeless. Good luck in the zombie apocalypse with them and their endless griping.
I’ve giving examples of a character archetype because it’s useful for quickly categorizing behavior. You’re defending a landlord who is threatening to make someone homeless over fresh air.
Fuck the landlord. Landlording is disgusting. Op just happens to be more fucking annoying and anti social than a landlord.
Username does not check out
Wanting a window open and defending themselves against people defending a landlord does not make a person antisocial. Even if they were antisocial defending the person threatening to essentially statistically kill them by attacking OP isn’t the right move, ever.
You’re right, their anti social behaviour makes them anti social. Good point!
What is even more amazing is how OP never demonstrated that.
Somebody said something abusive to them and they didn’t react perfectly, guess they deserve to go homeless in a heat wave. Oh well, we tried. /s
I disagree wholeheartedly, every single piece of advice given was met with hostility and shittiness. You do you, though!
wholeheartedly
Requires you to demonstrate having a heart to do that. Sorry, better luck next time.
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You are expecting too much from redditors
I didn’t know this was Reddit
Don’t have advice but came here to say fuck your landlord and I hope things work out for you ❤️
ITT people dog-piling somebody in a shitty situation, in a shitty society, who can’t find adequate and affordable housing and arguing in defense of a landlord who won’t give them a clear copy of their renter’s agreement (and is charging for a printed copy) and who has forcibly closed OP’s windows from the outside.
See OP’s edit:
edit: I am purposefully not engaging with any comments on the subject of whether or not my landlord has a genuine gripe about me having my window open and my door closed in a room that does not have a temperature sensor for the A/C system. I offered to close the vent. I offered to have my rent raised to compensate. All was ignored. It’s about power tripping. So this post is about my rights in the face of that.
Keep your window closed when it’s high temp, high humidity OP (consider the cat door for the window) and ignore these trolls who are trying to provoke you and make you feel bad. You did everything right, you even offered to have your rent increased.
Yeah what the fuck is all this siding with the landlord about? I thought we were leftists lmao. If I were OP I would stay out of Lemmy for a bit, the replies in this thread are probably just making the panic attack worse.
I don’t care about the nitty gritty details of the issue with the AC or the door or whatever, I don’t know why everyone is paying so much thought to that. The major problem is that the landlord is abusing an authority that is barely even legitimate to begin with, and is threatening OP with eviction if they don’t obey; the specific circumstances in which such abuse has materialized is irrelevant. They are especially irrelevant if you are going to play lawyer with them to uphold the landlord’s authority.
I think that we as a community should avoid this kind of behavior.
Sending you strength, OP
People arent siding with the landlord, they’re siding with not leaving windows open with the A/C running as that is just wasting tons of energy over OP’s neroticism.
OP’s landlord is threatening with eviction. Are you aware how fucking serious that is? In the current climate, this alone can single-handedly ruin someone’s life and future. Eviction shouldn’t even be on the table, and it wouldn’t be, if it wasn’t because of scalpers hoarding the entire housing market, and then holding working class people hostage if they don’t play by the landlord’s petty rules (which includes paying a fuckton of money monthly!)
The instant that the landlord threatened with eviction, they positioned themselves solidly in the wrong. For such a disproportionate threat to be justified, there should be reasonable suspicion that the tenant is going to commit homicide or plant a bomb or something over that level. Anything below that is an abuse of power, and said power is only as legitimate as scalping the market is.
I literally couldn’t care less about AC or the window, and you are either being dishonest or acting like a shitty human being if you unironlically claim that the way OP uses AC warrants a threat of eviction. Even if OP were 100% in the wrong regarding AC (which is, in turn, not something I agree with, but I’m not getting into that), there is a whole world of difference in scale. By equating these two levels of magnitude, you are definitively siding with the landlord, even if you don’t explicitly claim to do so (and you are, thus, also positioning yourself solidly in the wrong).
Also, y’all should be ashamed to call OP ‘insufferable’ for replying in a slightly mean tone after continuously being told that akshually maybe the landlord is right, and that they’re oh such a troublesome tennant, after being threatened with fucking eviction.
Wow what a moral crusader you are.
Since half your rant is discussing housing, high costs, and the plight of the working class, I’m quite shocked that you have no issue with OP causing every other tenant in this shared house to not only not have cool air in their home, but also force them to pay sky high energy costs to blow a bunch of cooled air outside for no reason at all.
I absolutely guarantee that if OP had come here and said “my housemate refuses to close their window throughout the day which keeps the air conditioner from working and leaves us with a huge energy bill every month” you’d be right here spouting the similar outrage but directed at the person selfishly leaving the window open. I don’t take a single thing you said seriously because it’s so absurd and over the top.
OP has absolutely zero justification for what they’re doing. Keeping the window open isn’t going to keep them from getting COVID, they claim it’s “too cold” yet also claim they “can just close the vent,” and they claim they have 80lbs of stinky cat litter sitting on the floor which is their own damn fault. What this sounds like to me is untreated mental illness which is causing everyone else in their house problems. If they don’t want to get evicted then maybe they should focus on that and stop forcing their problems on everyone else.
People arent siding with the landlord
People definitely are at times, and at other times are just actively against OP for not taking abuse quietly when they are seeking support.
Let me break it down with direct quotes:
“It’s pretty naive to assume that the landlord hasn’t documented the last several times they were forced to close your window. If I were you, I’d start looking for a place with an outdoor patio. At this point your landlord wants you gone and would probably be happy to let you out of the lease with all of the trouble you’re causing.”
Defending the landlord forcibly closing the window and accusing OP of causing trouble.
"Today’s forecast for Riverside, CA is high of 90F and 80% humidity. I’d want this asshole kicked to the curb if I was another renter in the house dealing with someone repeatedly opening the windows and defeating the AC.
Feels like a Reddit AITA creative writing exercise for rage bait. I don’t miss it."
Person lying about the weather and saying they want OP kicked to the curb for wanting to have their window open in their closet-sized room for fresh air, for their cats to live a dignified life despite OP’s limitations in being able to find adequate room for them to live indoors, to avoid the effects of shared ventilation and lack of temperature controls (including concerns about COVID).
It’s hot out, really hot out, and you are sharing an ac. Two issues here. Humidity destroys houses and it is not good if the AC is pumping full time."
Person overblowing humidity concerns/damage in Riverside, California (which is a relatively dry climate compared to some areas).
“I was on the fence until I saw this outburst. Now I’m pretty sure you’re a shitty tenant who’s about to get evicted. You and the landlord both are probably imperfect, and I’m not really gonna bother with too many details since I think you posted more for validation than for advice, but I think your landlord has a slam dunk case if he finds your account here with posts and comments. It could be too late, but your best bet is to delete your account, lawyer up, and stfu online about this before it builds their case against you. The judge doesn’t give a shit about you, he cares about the property owner’s property and possibly whether you’re a disruption to other tenants.”
They are referencing when OP responded to a commenter who said “Do you often feel like everyone is against you no matter where you go?”, to which they replied and called them out on having a “snide chud attitude”. Which isn’t my choice of words, but it’s not a slur or a form of bigotry, so who cares. Sometimes people have emotional outbursts to abusive comments or remarks, OP was responding to abuse.
“No one cares anymore because your attitude is complete shit. Go complain somewhere else”
More abuse.
OP didn’t react the best, which is understandable, they are in a tough situation and facing housing insecurity. I can’t imagine what that feels like in California.
Last time I was homeless was California for three years. I had to get into an abusive relationship to get off the street. I’m currently scared shirtless that I’m going to be homeless soon again. At the rate that homelessness is increasing, half the country will likely end up homeless in ten years
Well they won’t freeze to death. Maybe if they weren’t a giant asshole people would like them.
They will just die of heat stroke in an unforgiving hellscape, while data centers that produce/facilitate slop/mass surveillance accelerate climate change and fresh water depletion. No big deal, right?
So let me get this straight:
If you’re rich, you’re privileged to destroy the planet and to live however you please.
If you’re poor, you don’t deserve pets and you deserve to die of exposure, without a fair opportunity for shelter, because you said somebody’s attitude had the characteristics of being snide and chud-like when they were abusing you and because you were perceivably a bad tenant from the perspective of online trolls.
Thanks for bullying this vulnerable user and exposing your ideology.
Cry me a fucking river. You get what you give in terms of positivity on the internet. I’m just redirecting their negativity back at them.
You get off on that, you aren’t guiding them to a better path. You want to traumatize OP. Not happening on my watch. Try again while I’m off-duty.
Maybe more people will pick up the torch to support the hell out of the OP’s you choose to abuse. It must be self-defeating to imagine that you might be motivating people (who have more empathy than you) helping the people you work hard to psychologically torture.
This is not legal advice but in California, the landlord of a rooming house (which it sounds like you are in) has the right to make reasonable house rules and “keep the windows closed when the AC is on” is generally recognized as reasonable rule. Its unlikely a court would side with you on this.
Keeping the window open in a room (even with the door shut) impacts the temperature and humidity of the rest of the house. Rooms within a house are not air tight when the door is closed. In fact, the airflow in a house is designed to circulate and mix all the air from all the rooms so that the AC runs efficiently, even when the doors are closed.
The landlord doesn’t live on the premises.
It doesn’t matter. Unless they are keeping the apartment at an unreasonably high or low temp, then California typically recognizes a landlord’s right to require you to keep the windows closed when the AC is running.
So you believe that California law states you’re not allowed to ever open a window in a room you are renting if the landlord remotely sets the A/C to be at a constant temperature 24/7.
Sounds like you’re reading off the wall in your mind palace. Is that accurate?
Today’s forecast for Riverside, CA is high of 90F and 80% humidity. I’d want this asshole kicked to the curb if I was another renter in the house dealing with someone repeatedly opening the windows and defeating the AC.
Feels like a Reddit AITA creative writing exercise for rage bait. I don’t miss it.
Feels like I am on Kiwi Farms. Love the defense of landlords and lack of empathy for the housing crisis, which OP is facing. Let them know about the forecast without being a dick about it. The humidity is also not 80% throughout the day there.
See OP’s edit:
edit: I am purposefully not engaging with any comments on the subject of whether or not my landlord has a genuine gripe about me having my window open and my door closed in a room that does not have a temperature sensor for the A/C system. I offered to close the vent. I offered to have my rent raised to compensate. All was ignored. It’s about power tripping. So this post is about my rights in the face of that.
I said nothing about the landlord. There are other people in the same shitty house with the same shitty landlord, only they’re also dealing with a housemate opening a window all the time because he’s got 80 fucking pounds of cat litter smelling up the place.
Like I said, Lemmy rage bait. Complain about a landlord (rightfully) and everyone goes blind to all the other problems with the story.
I could have sworn it said 80% humidity this morning but I must have been pointed to the wrong city and will admit I was wrong on that point. But I still hold that opening the window in 90F at any humidity is a shitty thing to do to housemates.
In the parlance of reddit AITA, they’re both assholes.
I’m pretty sure you lied, I checked as soon as you posted from multiple sources. You’re just contributing to the dog-pile and you proved it here when paired with your former response:
Like I said, Lemmy rage bait. Complain about a landlord (rightfully) and everyone goes blind to all the other problems with the story.
You say (rightfully) now, but when you posted you said, “I’d want this asshole kicked to the curb if I was another renter in the house dealing with someone repeatedly opening the windows and defeating the AC.”. The OP offered to pay more rent to offset the costs.
Also, when you posted, the thread was overwhelmingly anti-OP. With significant upvotes on hateful and abusive posts. So, there’s another distortion of facts from you.
Why abuse OP? Focus on real issues instead of bullying somebody facing housing insecurity.
The OP offered to pay more rent to offset the costs.
Again, I was empathizing with the housemates dealing with both shit landlord and shit housemate. What does OP paying more money to the landlord do to help the housemates? You think the landlord is going to give them a slice of that? I have a bridge to sell you.
How does this affect the housemates if the cooling is sufficient? You are the one arguing that OP is creating a problem for the housemates. OP suggested that they could offset the costs to the person responsible for paying the electricity. I suggested that they could close the window during peak temperatures and humidity levels.
What if the landlord is just unwilling to work with OP and is as psychotic as they say they are? Actually read the details…
OP didn’t provide the agreement because it’s not legible.
OP didn’t provide the agreement because it’s not legible.
Now you’re being disingenuous. I’ve said nothing about the agreement and again nothing about the landlord other than to agree he’s a bag of shit. If you’re so caught up replying to multiple people that you can’t keep their positions straight, I think that says more about your bias than mine.
Nah, I’m locked in here - not confusing anybody. Better luck next time when people catch you being abusive to vulnerable people. It’s right there for everybody to see. You assumed bad faith from OP and judged them from the start, even if you have now pivoted.
You should make sure to read up on tenant law for your area. If it’s Riverside CA then the landlord needs to give you notice when entering your room. There are statewide tenant laws that supersede the leases, but you need to make sure.
Second, if it’s not in your lease then they can pound sand. You really should have a copy of your lease. Again, depends on tenant law, but they might be required to provide a copy.
Sorry this is happening to you. Idk why everyone is fixated on the reasons to keep the window open or closed. If you go to court, only give reasons for the windows being open if the judge asks. Your main pints should be the landlord violating tenant laws by entering your room (if that applies for your area) and threatening to kick you out for something not in the lease.
Not a lawyer, none is legal advice. Going to a student law clinic for free tenant advice was a good suggestion, but read up on the tenant law for your area, they’re usually not too difficult to read.
