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That's cheap insurance, but it's better to have your own policy. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Totally legal.
Email them your proof.
Keep receipts people. Always. Email, email, email.
As a tenant, you have zero legal recourse unless you can miraculously find a lawyer willing to represent you. It's $$$. You most likely would have to represent yourself.
Rent Cafe can clear out communications. FYI. Email!
And with serious matters, certified mail. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
My old landlord told me before move in that I could get my own insurance to avoid paying for theirs, and I did, and I paid for the full year all at once. This stupid mf then told me that everyone has to pay for their insurance regardless of having coverage already, because the price they put on it assumes everyone in the complex is paying for it. I was mad but yk that was probably the least of the shady shit they ended up doing. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
I’m not too familiar with the renter laws in WA. Unfortunately, unless you have something written into your lease that says they can’t increase any fees or payment without notice, you’re probably just going to have to pay it. Definitely put up a fight if they’re unwilling at first, I’ve learned that sometimes you genuinely just have to be mean to your landlords to get them to act right. Hopefully your landlord is not a greedy bastard like my old one. (Dude kept $1500 deposit over one piece of the window blind being bent, those don’t need $1500 for replacement and I doubt he replaced it anyways) | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
“Resident benefit package” was a real thing I had to pay $50/mo for, and when I asked the property manager what that meant exactly, he told me we have to pay it as a subscription to the maintenance guy so we don’t have to pay for him to come in a fix things as it comes up. He did not like when I told him that’s what the rent is for. There was also nothing I could do to have them take it off. That was even with consulting a lawyer, and having them negotiate with my landlord. I guess the moral of the story is if your landlord is cool, there won’t be a problem, but if not you should probably just pay it and move at the end of the lease. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
If it’s a lease requirement, someone is either in compliance or not. If not, it has to be fixed. If they give someone 60 days to eventually get renters insurance, that makes them liable in the meantime. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Yes it's legal. You signed paperwork for your apartment and if it states that you have to have renters insurance, then yes, they can and will evict you because you failed follow the renters contract. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
in colorado where i live, yes. i pay my landlord 10$ a month for renter insurance | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-25-07 |
Fair, without the lease we’re just blowing smoke
Ok but the whole “all tenants will be signed up…” but doesn’t make you think that this is a new development? If it wasn’t then it’d automatically hit after the time period of “show proof” ended? Not saying it’s not possible but it seems odd
11 x 12 = 132, a one time charge for your lawyer to yell at someone on the phone vs the monthly charge over a year. Assuming the lease is at least a year. Possibly my lawyer would tell me to just suck it up but if I already had insurance then I think it’s worth the phone call. I’m a bit petty so this isn’t universally a good idea | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-26-07 |
I'm just cringing at the "be been"... let alone the shave-tail manner of communication. Sheesh! | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-01-08 |
Send to land lord to repair.
Clearly was not repaired correctly before. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
I would find another place to live if I were you. It sounds like a very unhealthy environment. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-07-08 |
That’s super interesting. In all of the rental contracts I’ve signed in Massachusetts, you pay first month, last month and a security deposit on top of that which is typically equal to one months rent.
My first and last month payments have always actually been applied to my first and last months rent.
I’ve also never heard of a security deposit increasing after rent increases, so maybe that’s a state by state kind of thing? I assume my landlord would have already asked for that at the time he increased rent so I think I’m safe on that front | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
Interesting. Yeah, the security deposit is equal to 2 months rent. So of course if the rent increases, so does the security deposit. It's kind of nice knowing I have all that money sitting there though, for when I do eventually move out. I can't imagine they're going to need anywhere near that amount to fix anything. I know most landlords would find a way to use it, but my landlords are super chill. They're just a friendly older couple that I rent from directly. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
Thanks for your help in this matter. My husband agreed to pay $200 more (all utilities). She replied that she is giving us a great deal as she could get at least $2300. Our neighbor across the street pays $2100 for a 3 bdrm, 1 bath. They have utilities/ lawn service paid by the landlord. They now have 6-8 people living in there. If she continues to increase the rent, good advice to look elsewhere. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Hi Joelle, I agree that some parents are not good parents. My daughter and I have a great relationship, but my husband and her sometimes butt heads. She has always been well provided for emotionally and physically. She and her husband bring in over 250,000 a year so she’s not struggling. We always pay the bill when going out to dinner, birthdays, holidays, etc. Maybe it’s just not a good idea to rent from family. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Thanks for your advice. The rents here tend to fluctuate. She compares what we’re paying to really nice Sacramento areas. We have to lock our fence, garage at all times in this neighborhood. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Thanks for your wise words. So true. We have a plan to stay here as long as things don’t keep breaking down or the neighborhood gets worse. We recently moved here 3 years ago to be closer to our kids. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
My husband isn’t furious with her just frustrated. We have totally redone the yard that was overgrown and hard as rock dirt. I’m 65… and did all the manual labor myself. Took years. I chose to do this so we could sit outside. Never asked my daughter to pay anything. She had her the house reappraised after the yard and driveway redone and received a much higher appraisal. We agreed to rent her place to make her whole on her mortgage payment. Our agreed upon rent was already above her monthly mortgage. So she has already been making money. Which was fine with us. Yet she continues to keep making us feel like we she pay more. BTW. The neighborhood is extremely rundown, crime ridden, can’t take a safe night stroll around the neighborhood. Just saying. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Okay, with those added details I'm back on your side. Lol. If your payment is covering the mortgage and then some, she should honestly just let you guys continue that, you're her parents! And like you pointed out you improved the yard. And while your improvements surely helped the value, nothing helps the value more than just time going by. And you can't understate the importance of the neighborhood and your feeling of safety. That's terrible that you can't even go for a walk in the evening. I feel bad that she's pressuring you guys. Hope you were working out with her. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Before you give any consideration to up the ante on the rent to your daughter, 1) recoup the $5k spent on the driveway and put it back in your coffers. 2) Make sure you have a years worth of rent saved with easy access if anything were to happen. 3) set aside some money for car repairs or a fund for car replacement for the future. 4) Get a realistic budget built so you can really see your financial status and how much discretionary monies are actually existing each month. 5) this one is the least fun one but you need to be honest with yourself, what is the state of things with your daughter’s real truth why she is claw for monies from her parents rather then being grateful and with graciousness that she has a way to be be supportive to her parents after her father has become disabled? Is her finances in peril and she is living in the edge financially due to no poor financial ways? Or is she a never satisfied status money grabber to her main long in the tooth mindset when she see’s her parents or any opportunity she can squeeze?
I’m so glad you have a home, family, a job and that your health is good enough to still be in the job market. Chin up and don’t forget you are now your best advocate and don’t short yourself with less than your younger self would be good with how your allowing others to be in respect and care of you and valuing you. Being solid is harder than being soft and accommodating but sometimes it is the needed stance to blow the poor form of others in its tracks or at least some boundaries to be put in place. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Thanks so much for your suggestions and encouragement. I read these to my husband and he very much appreciated your feedback as well. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
In most states, landlords are allowed to control the thermostat for their rental properties. In certain ones, such as Arizona, they have to give the tennant control during very hot or cold months. I learned this when an elderly patient was having some medical issues, because she asked me to write her landlord a letter about her need to adjust the climate.
If financially doable, I’d put in a window unit. I’d let the landlord control the thermostat, sure, but I’d put in a window unit for my own comfort, and also to be spiteful to the landlord (who likely lives in more comfortable temps in their private residence). | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
To cheat, extend the thermostat wires.
Use a command strip and mount the thermostat 1 foot higher!
You can go 2 feet higher but you might be shocked how much warmer it is a foot above the thermostat.
System thinks it's set to 70 and it's cool. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Working security myself and I always laugh about the time we had an incident where an intruder somehow got past like three layers of security. Turns out an employee was using a couple of fridge magnets to keep from having to scan his badge when he wanted a smoke! | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Yeah if I wear shorts and it's low humidity 79 is actually pretty comfortable. The key is the temperature has to be even and the humidity needs to be below 50% . If your thermostat says 75 it doesn't mean every place in your house is 75F. At least in my place if it's 95 out, and my thermostat is at 75, my actual living room is around 80F. I think this contributes to people's perception of needing a certain thermostat setting.
The nice thing about FL is at least in some counties they take AC seriously. Code requires a return for each supply which keeps the house more even. The typical builder house in the NE has very few returns. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
This isn’t good, idk if you can have pets in this place but if you can this could cause injury or death! (Depending on species and how hot it lets it get) if this is a pet friendly place definitely bring this up!
For example:
Mammals:
Cats and Dogs can go into heat stroke when their body hits 105 F and this typically happens with temps 85-90
reptiles:
Crested geckos can die if the temperature goes over 83! (They come from an area that is 75 or so year around)
Bearded dragons may die if the temp goes over 120, which is a lot but their basking area is already 110 so the ambient temperature only needs to go 10 or so degrees hotter to go into dangerous temps
Birds:
Parakeets can overheat with temps of 104 F
While some of these temps are very high (birds,cats ,and dogs) others are not! (Reptiles) and you never know how they are reducing the temp, are they letting it get to 80? Or do they just shut it off 9-5 mon-Fri and it gets whatever temp it gets? | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Is this homeroom? | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
They could fuck ALLLLL the way off and I would learn how to jailbreak the thermostat. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
That’s so your father can’t control the lights and thermostat away from home to make lift miserable | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
How do they know when you are away? | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
It depends on your state and your lease. Either way it’s a real dick move but pretty easy to bypass.
By the lease, I mean that it would have to specifically state that the landlord has the right to control thermostat settings. Otherwise they have no inherent permission to. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
When it’s close to 100 outside, no. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
I keep mine at 70, it's like 122 here, I'd like it colder but the electric is too expensive had it in the 60s last summer when we first moved here and got a 500 dollar bill for an 800 square foot place. I walk from room to room with my fan plugging it in by the nearest vent to try and survive...so I get it, I'm just being a little facetious | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
That’s what mine does. I’ll set it to 70, go to bed then a few hours later it had moved itself to 74 or higher,assuming I’m not home cuz I havent gotten out of bed to trip the sensor. It’s annoying as all hell. Thankfully I have the app on my phone so I don’t have to get out of bed every time to adjust it. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
That's what I do, sometimes random hotel rooms have high lowest set point so my fat self likes it chillier. My camera lens heater works beautifully and just velcros around the thermostat | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
I'd get in a fist fight with my landlord. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Yeah just go buy a cheap honeywell thermo for about 20 bucks and have an electrician pop it in. Problem solved. Ditch the "smart tech" until you move out and then just have it reinstalled when you move out. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Yes if they have a control and everyone hates them. Evergy uses a nest thing that controls HVAC and electricity usage and I do not like that idea of someone controlling the state during a hot, dry spell. Diabetic and cannot afford to be dehydrated when it is hot and humid. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
They do, Evergy has the nest, controls the HVAC it is attached to, and thank goodness I cannot use one, we have only one window heat and AC window, in one room. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
And they are controlled by your electric company. I can't use one. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Some of us work at night and sleep during the day, when the ac is really needed. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
There is a code. Just google how to put it in bypass mode for the specific model of thermostat it is. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
You didn't actually need to replace the unit with the old analog thermostats. Those could be adjusted too, by physically bending the bimetallic strap. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
They notice it is offline, schedule a visit and spank you for an unauthorized modification | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Thermostat figures it out, has sensors | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
They aren’t turning it off | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
If they are motion sensors just put an oscillating fan in front of it | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Just want to mention my apartment allowed me to put on an Ecobee. When I’m home it’s always between 72-68 degrees, I like it cold. However, I have it set up to work with my Apple HomeKit so that when I leave home, it goes up to 77 degrees.
To be honest I’d be pretty mad if it didn’t let me go under 70 degrees, but as for the power saving functionality, seems like a win. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
More like 10-15%. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
If you need your AC lower than 70, the AC isn't the problem. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Yes, it's legal, you also might be opted in by default in the Eula terms like ecobee nest and a few others.
I say f em! It's my house, my consumption. If the grid doesn't want to reinforce or build out, all we can do is stand together and force then to.
I'm in texas where ercot has rather instead chosen to pocket profits, and the result of icepocalypse down here, they didn't improve anything. Only repairs. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Our local power company will throttle your AC/Heat if you signed up for their green energy program. They come and install their own smart thermostat and in all the fine print it states they will throttle your homes hvac during the listed peak kwh usages and specific verbiage about in summer they will throttle the system during peak times and high stress off peak times.
It's really easy to remove their thermostat for a different smart panel. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
I just work without the lights on when the motion detector shuts them down! | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
I mean tbh it might just be a load of shit and they are hoping you dont test it. My place said that it’s locked at 70 for maintenance purposes and manufacture recommendations. I live on the 5th floor (top floor) it gets pretty hot up here… i can set mine to 65 and so can my neighbors it actually will drop to 67 and stay steady. (however i think it’s because even tho it’s an efficient system it just can’t keep up with the 65 demand cuz it keeps running even at 67) however 70 does seem to be enough and i wont have a risk of system burn out. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Ask them what other steps they are taking to conserve energy? Are they putting up a tint on the windows? Are they planting trees or others that could provide shade and cool the pavement temps? Are they supplying black out curtains to keep rooms cool? This is bullshit you pay your electricity? | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
My thermostat is behind the living room tv. The way the room is shaped, it kind of predetermines which wall will have the couch and which will have the tv. We would never trip the sensor on one of those kinds of thermostats. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Or they just 'assume" that during the day one is at work. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Sounds great, good way to save money too | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
It doesn’t know your away it will change the temps regardless. It’s done off the time of day. Only way around this is to get a thermostat that doesn’t have any connectivity. Basically a cheap basic bitch thermostat
The very last apartment I had, they did this and I replaced it with a very very cheap basic thermostat | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
My electric is separate from my rent and my apartment has set limits like this. So if its below 65 degrees we cant have the air conditioning on at all and if its above that temp we cant set the air below 68 because it will freeze their laundry room evaporator and ac units - I think it kinda defeats the point of having ac but 🤷♀️ | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
A $500 electricity bill for an 800 square foot place is ridiculous. Mine is less than $100 for 1,100 sqft and I am comfortable. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Southern CA...but not the nice part the desert part. Moved from the midwest was not prepared for the heat | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Deserts get cool during the night. I live in a high humidity place with heat where going outside is like all the air is being squeezed out of you. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
It's 230 am and Ober 90 degrees. Last night it cooled to 106. Nights aren't so bad, but daytime sucks and I'm at home all day | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
I understand | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Might be a thing through the power company, just that part is left out, yes legal, also a separate piece of hardware on the location.
Your situation may be different but I’ve had that stupid plan before, and it only affects the AC. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
How do they know "when you're away?" | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-26-07 |
Yes | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Noted; I’ll see if I can’t get a better picture! | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Looking at it again, I think what you are seeing are the wires coming down from the fan to the light. It should all be safe, but if you are concerned about the bulbs popping with condensation you can put LED bulbs in there. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Remember, prioritize saving over borrowing. Cut unnecessary expenses, create a budget, and explore side hustles. Financial stability is within reach. Best of luck! | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Okay the being late on rent part made sense but how are you going to start a company in a dire financial position? And move to a more expensive place after? The timeline even with the money is really confusing | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
If no one owns them then now they're yours. Give them out as party gifts. Lol | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
yeah, that is sketch AF. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
This is scary. I’d be tempted to destroy everything but it may antagonize him. You need to be allowed to have cameras or she needs to quit renting to single people. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
It seems you already have camera’s!
They’re in your backyard tree
Just get your dad and some of his friends some beer and food
Have them remove the cameras, you might be able to use them yourself
Also have them talk about how they used to beat up dirtbags in the army back in the day
Have them standing in your backyard making sure your pedo neighbor here’s it | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Unfortunately you are stuck because there is not immediate threat. As for the cameras, the guy next door denied them as his. I would just get approval from your landlord to have them removed. Unfortunately because it’s not illegal to record in areas where privacy is not expected like inside a home there is not much you can do when it comes to the guys cameras. The ones on the property you can however. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Perhaps I'm being dense, but if the landlord says the cameras aren't theirs and the neighbour has said they aren't his, why can't you just remove them? Be careful, don't damage them, and if the neighbour does claim them, return their property and maybe ask why he said they weren't his? | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
That won’t do anything permanent | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Take the ones on your property, reset then and now you have your own cameras | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Shoot em out the trees, what a joker | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
So your landlord knew this guy forced the previous tenant to move due to safety concerns and did not disclose this to you? I would be very assertive and visibly disturbed about that when talking to them. You need to make this their problem too, because unfortunately the cops are going to take the landlord more seriously than you. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
I mean, just go knock the ones on the trees off. He cant say they were his and report you if he already denied knowing about them. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Nah, go darker and put them in a womans restroom, let him get arrested | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
I understand you want to bail, but consider this, the next renters may not be as smart as you and be left in a precarious situation.
I see a lot of comments about disabling the cams but let's think this through a little more.
Remote cams require batteries, and they need to be replaced or recharged.
My suggestion would be to reposition them to look at his house or, if not line of sight up into the trees. Have your own cam monitor his and if he sneaks over.. trespassing charges!
I do like the idea of pointing cams at his house, fake cams can be cheap! | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
What? You never seen a mirror reflect sunlight. Most definitely can melt plastic and damage a camera at a decent distance. Happens all the time with cars too. People park outside and the mirrors on the house to see around them reflect on to car and melt the plastic.
Or if set up close all the person will see is mirror | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Could you cover their lenses with a sticker, and record the neighbors trespassing to come over and remove the stickers? | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
I suggest you ask at r/legaladvice. This thread is one of the stupidest I've ever seen. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Write neighbor a trespass letter before doing this so charges stick. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
If you have kids I would say something like,"he's filming my children in varying stages of undress" | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Tell the landlord you are not moving in because of the cameras. Sounds like she is aware the other tenant has issues and won't do anything about them.
Ask for your deposit and rent back.
If they are sizable amounts, go talk to a lawyer. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Get your own camera, pointed at the creepers cameras. Then put plastic grocery bags over the creepers cameras and record him on your property uncovering them. Go to police. Profit. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
take a bat to them. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Rip the cameras from the trees. If the neighbor claims not to know anything, it won't bother him. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Take the cameras down and sell them. If he approaches you, use mace and/or a taser. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
My Ring doorbell camera does very well aimed East and watching the sun directly. It could not be damaged by a mirror reflecting the sunlight at it.
100 mirrors, maybe. See also Archimedes mirror legend. https://www.npr.org/2005/10/19/4964987/was-archimedes-mirror-real#:~:text=Legend%20has%20it%20that%20the,with%20a%20team%20of%20students. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
It’s on your property that you’re renting. They are now your cameras.
And cameras are real bad with infrared light. Buy an IR spotlight and aim it at the other cameras. If you want to go unethical/illegal, use laser pointers and burn the sensors out. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
That has nothing to do with mirrors though, mirrors concentrate the sunlight so it would be more powerful than just your camera getting direct sunlight | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
Maybe read a book on optics. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-22-07 |
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