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No Hot water in laundry room a violation of housing code? I have a laundry room in a separate building, in a room attached to the garage. An 8 unit building in a rent control city, Santa Monica. The boiler for the laundry room broke down. I have a 90 yr old lady tenant that complained to the city, it’s been around 1 week. There's a laundromat 2 blocks away and I planned on replacing the item in the next months budget. (The city inspector came while I was working inside one of the apartments. I clearly told him not to come in several times. He asked if I was the LL and I just answered that I am just doing maintenance. He came back with one of the tenants who informed him that I was the LL. I told him repeatedly not to come into the apartment unit that I was working on, but he came in anyway to talk to me about the Laundry room.) I informed the inspector that there is no obligation to provide a laundry room and as of this point the laundry room is closed and shut down. I was issued a violation notice on the famous hot water law that LL must abide by. But I read the county statute and that ordinance is only for bathroom and kitchen habitability; and not for laundry. So there’s two points
A. The inspector trespassed into the apartment unit that I was working on.
B. How to approach the county over stepping their boundaries in using the hot water rule on an area that it doesn’t have jurisdiction.
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