Additional Rules and Penalties

You are responsible for paying the penalties for any rules you and your visitors break. You are responsible for paying the damages for any destruction and your visitors do or cause to occur. 

I. BATHROOM

1. Stopping up toilet and/or leaving it partially stopped up so that it overflows when the next person flushes it: $50.00 penalty plus cost of plumber visit labor and/or parts if a plumber has to be called. 
2. Putting cotton, tampons, sanitary pads, applicators, paper towels, newspaper or anything else other than urine, feces, vomit, blood, toilet paper and/or dirty dishwater into the toilet: $35.00 penalty.
3. Putting Draino or other caustic chemicals into the toilet, therefore risking harming the pipes and/or causing physical injury to tenant: $35.00 penalty.
4. Leaving hairs anywhere in or on the toilet: $1.00 penalty per hair. 
5. Failing to leave upper surface of toilet seat clean and dry for the next person to use: $5.00 penalty.
6. Failing to flush toilet with seat down, therefore sending aerosolized germs into the air: $5.00 penalty.
7. Leaving toilet unflushed: $35.00 penalty.
8. Failing to wash your hands with warm water and soap for at least fifteen continuous seconds before leaving the bathroom after using the toilet (regardless of whether you urinated or defecated): $20.00 penalty.
9. Leaving the light on in the bathroom after you exit the bathroom. $2.00 penalty.
10. Stopping up shower and/or leaving it partially stopped up so that it overflows when the next person uses it: $50.00 penalty plus cost of plumber visit labor and/or parts if a plumber has to be called. 
11. Putting Draino or other caustic chemicals into the shower drain, therefore risking harming the pipes and/or causing physical injury to tenant: $35.00 penalty.
12. If your hair is longer than 3 inches, failing to comb your hair before you wash it - therefore risking clogging the drain: $1.00 penalty.
13. Leaving hair(s) and/or whiskers of any length on the shower ceiling, walls, tiles, faucet, handle, door, soap dish, floor, drain: $1.00 penalty per hair. 
14. Changing the position of the shower head so that the water strikes the wall tiles more directly, therefore eroding the tile grout more quickly: $10.00 penalty.
15. Failing to put the plastic drain cover back over the drain after you shower, therefore allowing mold/mildew spores to escape from inside the drain and into the shower: $3.00 penalty.
16. Failing to remove soap, shampoo, conditioner, washcloth, razor, etc. from the shower after you complete your shower; therefore encouraging mold/mildew to grow under the items and in the shadows of the items; and crowding the next person: $1.00 penalty per item.
17. Leaving water on the bathroom floor and/or marble steps, therefore creating a slip and fall hazard, and a mold hazard: $20.00 penalty. 
18. Leaving water on the counter around the bathroom sink, therefore creating a mold hazard:  $5.00 penalty. 
19. Leaving toothpaste spittle on the bathroom sink faucet: $1.00 penalty.
20. Leaving objects in the bathroom, including but not limited to trash, clothes, personal care products, toothbrush, washcloth, and/or towel. (Keep them in your room). $1.00 penalty per object left in bathroom.
21. Turning faucet on full blast for more than ten continuous seconds without adjusting it, therefore eroding the sink enamel and spreading bacteria and/or viruses with the very high-pressure water - and if left unattended risking flooding, which could trigger mold/mildew: $5.00 penalty
22. Allowing hair, whiskers, dental floss or any other potentially drain-stopping materials to enter the sink and/or drain: $35.00 penalty. 
23. Putting Draino or other caustic chemicals into the bathroom sink drain, therefore risking harming the pipes and/or causing physical injury to tenant: $35.00 penalty.
24. Using the bathroom for more than 30 consecutive minutes: $2.00 per additional minute. 

II. ALL SURFACES AND AREAS IN THE APARTMENT (including but not limited to the underside of the toilet seat)

1. Failing to immediately clean up blood spills/drops (or anything resembling blood) with Ajax Cleansing Powder with Bleach (unless you are injured to the extent that you cannot clean it up yourself and/or were rushed to a hospital Emergency Ward: $20.00 to $750.00, depending on the extent and location of the spill of blood/substance resembling blood.
2. Smearing ejaculate, mucus and/or boogers on the furniture, walls or any other surface of the room: $20. penalty per item.
3. Failing to immediately clean - with Ajax Cleansing Powder with Bleach - any surface you potentially contaminated with your hands after they came in contact with raw meat/poultry/fish $20.00 penalty.
4. Leaving food, food scraps, and/or opened food wrappers/boxes anywhere in the apartment other than inside airtight glass jars or inside the refrigerator: $10.00 penalty per item.
5. Leaving used tissues anywhere other than inside your trash bag. $3. per tissue.

III. KITCHEN

1. Putting Draino or other caustic chemicals into the kitchen sink drain, therefore risking harming the pipes and/or causing physical injury to tenant: $20.00 penalty.
2. Removing the sink drain cover: $20.00 penalty.
3. Pouring greasy dishwater into the kitchen sink drain: $20.00 penalty (Avoid this by wiping out greasy food remains with paper towels, and pouring lightly greasy dishwater down the toilet. No deep frying is allowed).
4. If your hair is longer than three inches, failing to comb your hair before you wash it - therefore risking clogging the drain: $5.00 penalty.
5. Leaving dirty dishes, pans, pan lids, glasses, eating utensils, etc. in the kitchen for more than sixty continuous minutes: $1.00 per item per minute penalty.
6. Leaving food scraps in/on the sink drain cover: $5.00 penalty.
7. Leaving anything slippery (other than water) on the kitchen floor: $10.00 penalty (This is the only floor in the apartment that features unglazed ceramic tiles, which quickly absorb plain water). 
8. Leaving the cabinet door open/ajar while you are not actively putting things in it, taking things out of it, or cleaning it: $1.00 penalty.
9. Piling items in the cabinet in such a way that they present a hazard of falling out when the cabinet door is opened: $10.00 penalty.
10. Slamming/loudly closing cabinet door: $1.00 penalty.
11. Removing the defrosting pan from the refrigerator: $10.00 penalty.
12. Packing the refrigerator so full that the air cannot properly circulate inside it and the entire unit begins to overheat: $20.00 penalty.
13. Placing glass items in the freezer compartment: $10.00 penalty.
14. Allowing food to spoil and/or mold in the refrigerator: $10.00 penalty.
15. Bringing pork into the apartment: $5.00 penalty.
16. Frying bacon in the apartment: $50.00 penalty.
17. Frying anything in oil deeper than 1/8 inch: $75.00 penalty. 
18. Failing to store food scraps, food trash, food wrappers in the refrigerator or else immediately taking them downstairs to the building trash on the ground floor: $5.00 per item.
19. Slamming/loudly closing refrigerator door: $1.00 penalty
20. Leaving the light on in the kitchen after you exit the kitchen. $1.00 penalty

IV. SMOKE DETECTORS and CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTORS

1. Touching the smoke detectors and/or carbon monoxide detectors: $250.00 penalty (If there is no fire, simply turn off stove burner/oven; cover pan(s); open apartment door and air out rooms. Call 911 and use fire extinguishers if there is an actual fire. Leave apartment door closed but unlocked during an actual fire).

V. APARTMENT DOOR

1. Failing to lock the apartment door immediately upon entering and/or exiting (regardless of whether someone is home): $50.00 penalty (The only exception is during an actual fire, when you should leave apartment door closed, but unlocked).
2. Leaving the apartment door unlocked for more than 1hour: $50. penalty for each additional hour (The only exception is during an actual fire, when you should leave apartment door closed, but unlocked. Of course, if you start a fire you are liable for damages).
3. Answering the door when you are not expecting anyone: $50. penalty.
4. Allowing anyone other than your family members and friends you have known at least a month, uniformed fire fighters or EMS workers into the apartment: $250. to $500. penalty.
5. Allowing anyone other than your family members and friends you have known at least a month into the building: $100. penalty (with the exception of uniformed fire fighters, police with badges, uniformed UPS workers, uniformed postal workers, inspectors from the city government with proper ID, and ConEd meter readers).
6. Slamming/allowing the apartment door to slam: from 10am to 10pm $2.00 penalty per slam; from 10pm to 10am $5.00 penalty per slam.
7. Making copies of the house keys: $75. penalty.
8. Allowing anyone to use or borrow the house keys: $100. penalty.
9. Losing the house keys: $50. penalty.
10. Attaching your name, phone number or address to the house keys: $50. penalty.
11. Keeping the house keys in your wallet: $50. penalty.
12. Making the false claim that you have authority over the apartment and/or any area of the apartment: $50. penalty.

Also see: http://cleanhealthysafe.blogspot.com/2016/01/why-i-tell-roommates-not-to-answer-door.html

VI. BEDROOM 

1. Slamming/allowing the room door to slam: from 10am to 10pm $1.00 penalty per slam; from 10pm to 10am $5.00 penalty per slam.
2. Allowing electronic equipment and/or wires to be within 2feet of the radiator and within 3feet of the window: $30. penalty
3. Allowing papers and/or wood tables to be within 16inches of the radiator: $30. penalty
4. Placing liquids on shelves above power strip: $30. penalty
5. Leaving the powerstrip on while you are not inside the apartment: $1. penalty
6. Smearing ejaculate, mucus and/or boogers on the furniture, walls or any other surface of the room: $20. penalty per item
7. Leaving hairs on the shelves and/or filing cabinet: $1. penalty per hair
8. Placing used condoms and/or dirty sex toys anywhere in the apartment other than inside a plastic bag: $20. penalty per item
9. Leaving handprints and/or footprints on the ceiling: $20. penalty per print
10. Wet moping the floor and/or allowing liquids to penetrate the subfloor, thus risking triggering mold: $100. to $750. penalty depending on the extent of damage. 
11. Leaving a wet or damp cloth object including but not limited to a towel, washcloth or raincoat anywhere other than the towel racks: $10. penalty
12. Leaving a wet umbrella anywhere in the apartment other than the shower or sinks: $20. penalty
13. Leaving wet shoes anywhere in the apartment other than on top of the plastic lid: $20. penalty
14. Failing to wash sheets and pillow cases at least once every 7 days and blankets at least once every 14 days: $20. penalty 
15. Failing to wash sheets, pillows, pillow cases and blankets with the provided Whole Food store brand powder laundry detergent $20. penalty
16. Failing to wash clothes with the provided Whole Food 365 store brand unscented powder laundry detergent or else keep the clothes fully enclosed airtight inside blue Good Buy brand plastic bags: $5. penalty per pound of clothes
17. Leaving the bed unmade from the 10th - 16th of the month when prospective future occupants will be viewing the room. $5. penalty
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VII. ADDITIONAL DEMEANOR and BEHAVIOR

1. Setting your alarm so loud that it wakes up the tenant: $5. penalty
2. Using an alarm that resembles an emergency evacuation alarm and/or fire alarm: $20. penalty
3. Speaking so loudly that your voice can easily be heard outside the apartment: $20. penalty
4. Slandering, libeling and/or defaming the tenant: $20. to $750. penalty and charges may be pressed against you. 
5. Playing or creating sounds so loud that they are easily heard outside your bedroom between 10pm and 10am: $50. penalty per hour
6. Rubbing up against the tenant when passing them in the hallway and/or kitchen: $50. penalty
7. Going nude, semi-nude or topless anywhere in the apartment other than the bathroom or bedroom behind a closed door: $100. penalty
8. Menacing, threatening or harassing the tenant: Penalty to be determined plus charges will be filed against you and you would have to move out immediately
9. Assaulting or battering the tenant:  Penalty to be determined plus charges will pressed against you and you would have to move out immediately.

VIII. VISITORS

1. All rules that apply to you apply to your visitors and you are responsible for paying the penalties for any rules they break.
2. You are responsible for paying the damages for any destruction your visitor does or causes to occur. 
3. Having more than 2 persons visit you in the apartment at any given time: $50. penalty per additional person
4. Having 2 or more persons visiting you in the apartment for more than 2 consecutive hours: $10. penalty per additional hour
5. Having an overnight visitor on consecutive nights: $200. penalty for each consecutive night
6. Having an overnight visitor more than 5 nights a month: $200. penalty for each night beyond 5.
7. Visitor using shower: $20. penalty

Also see: http://cleanhealthysafe.blogspot.com/2015/01/additional-prohibited-items.html
and http://cleanhealthysafe.blogspot.com/2015/01/prohibited-chemicals.html