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It sounds like a rough situation. In Virginia, if your landlord's behavior is making you feel unsafe, it might be worth talking to a lawyer or local tenant rights group to see if you have grounds to break the lease without penalty. Document everything texts, mail issues, and any interactions as it’ll be useful if you decide to take action. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
OP might have better luck - sometimes (often) office A interprets policy differently than office B. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
Get a camera detector and see if he has any cameras inside of your living space. It's illegal and you can go to the police with that. Otherwise there's nothing here that would let you out of your lease. Between the 2 options I would do a buyout. Pay the 2 months and forfeit the deposit. Leave the place spotless and damage free so you can't be charged for anything and take lots of pictures to prove it. You have no idea what he might pull if you chance leaving it in your name for the next 3 months and not living there. The buyout makes it no longer your responsibility. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
A report about what exactly?
"Hey I'd like to file a report about my landlord being weird" 😕 | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
But they don’t, in my experience. I’ve made two separate complaints on things that were clearly against the law and the postmaster basically shrugged their shoulders. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
If you cannot see the infractions here, you may be just as weird.
All of his tracking behaviors qualify as stalking as he’s doing it with cameras.
If that’s not enough, he’s holding her mail and blocking her access to the box. That’s a federal crime.
Purposeful agitation by running to where she is in the house or storing her dogs above her to have a cafe match.
Not allowed to clean dirty slick stairs and not allowed a privacy screen in her bathroom??
“Weird” is a gross understatement to describe what’s going on here. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
It's his property. Is he not allowed to have cameras? Is he able to argue he's only trying to secure his property by putting cameras by the entrance which is a common thing people do?
Yeah the holding the mail thing is probably illegal lol.
I don't think running to where she is in the house and being annoying is a crime. It's petty but probably not a crime.
Not allowed to clean dirty slick stairs and not allowed a privacy screen in her bathroom is probably not criminal. It sounds like a civil issue.
I agree all of this stuff is wrong but outside of the mail stuff, it's all petty AF and not anything criminal, it's civil. The police won't handle this but a civil court will. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
Tell me you’re not a single woman without telling me… you’re a fool. He’s tormenting her on purpose. Blocked. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
Same, not in FL. Doesn’t matter what they should do, if they just don’t.
I have a shared mailbox with 2 other units (wtf??) because my apartment is illegal and multiple mailboxes would look sus. Landlord also thinks she’s some kinda package concierge, and loves to take them into her unit and make me beg for my own shit. Multiple complaints to USPS, all with police reports. Doesn’t matter. I had to get a PO Box. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-26-07 |
This is what I was talking about, if there is only 1 mailbox for the address, there is nothing the post office or police can do Getting a PO Box is just about all you can do if you want to receive your mail. The post office will say they delivered your mail to that address, they are not aware who takes it after that. And police don't have the resources to dedicate to a mailbox, to investigate who actually is taking the mail, lol. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-26-07 |
Correct, I’ve since learned. My state’s sanitary code does have language about providing a secure mailbox for an apartment, and I could pursue it that way and I’m sure a court would understand the law to mean, “per unit” is what makes it secure. But what’s that worth? Trust me, I’m in court already with the landlord. Ain’t nobody wanna be in my position, over a mailbox. It’s just not worth it. Chalk it up to a shitty landlord. They’re not rare. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-26-07 |
Hi all! Getting right to it, I had putt in a work order two weeks ago or so to fix the bathroom fan in my room.
Yesterday I received an email about the repair an hour before I saw them arrive at my door, all while I was at work.
My roomate was home to let them in, and as they entered my room she heard glass shatter, and they left only a minute later. She took a photo to let me know they broke a sort of taxidermy sentimental piece of mine.
Upon the leasing companies return, they fixed the fan and I guess tried to clean up the mess. When I got home there were still shards of glass immediately upon entering my room and a piece of a carpenter bee from what was broken, but the remnants of the rest of it wasn’t in any of the trash cans in the house.
I sent this email to my leasing company when I came home to step in glass.
What are my rights here? I know this isn’t something like an apartment flooding, but this was something meaningful to me, and it seems like they cared more about hiding it than anything else.
| r/renters | post | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
They should own up to it and compensate you (good luck coming to an agreement in the price for this sort of thing though) but realistically you’re SOL. I believe your story to be true but you can’t prove 100% that they broke it so if you took them to court, you’re not going to be able to win.
In the future, definitely move fragile things before maintenance comes in. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
And yes, I understand that you didn’t have the opportunity to move those things this time. You don’t have to allow them access with less than 24 hours unless it’s an emergency. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
I remember reading that in Virginia law, if it’s after a maintenance request they don’t have to give notice before twenty four hours, or am I wrong in that? I wonder if I can pursue that route if I can’t otherwise prove they broke it.
I have the photo that’s time stamped that my roomate took after they left the first time right after breaking it, and a clip from my ring camera where she said she heard them saying to leave the mess.
God this is so frustrating, as if stepping on broken glass wasn’t enough this was something I kept from someone I lost two years ago, I just wish I at least had the chance to save its contents but they threw it away somewhere else intending to hide what happened. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
It doesn’t matter if they’re required to give 24 hours notice or not since your roommate let them in. You/your roommate had the right to decline entry but chose to not exercise that right. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
the video of them saying to leave the mess and timestamps of the photo/video against the email timestamp of when they were to arrive are good at proving your case it was them. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
The real problem is establishing value to get the item replaced. They may offer a credit on your rent or something unless you demand cash value. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
It's not much different than if any other situation where someone damages your property. Things don't change just because you're a renter. They had a work order, so they were allowed to enter and all that.
Just notify them of the damage and what it costs. If they refuse to pay, then take them to small claims court. You've got your roommate as a witness that their employees broke your property, and you've got a picture of the damage, although in small claims court the witness will probably be more useful.
Having said that, I'm guessing a sentimental taxidermy collection is going to be difficult to put a reasonable value on that a magistrate will agree with, and it might not be worth your time or effort to pursue. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
You don't have to prove 100% in civil court, just 51%. In other words, it's more likely than not. And really, all you have to do is convince the magistrate that it's fair. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
It's going to be pretty tricky submitting photo/video evidence in small claims court. You've got to provide copies to defendant and to the court, so it's usually not going to be worth it. Having the roommate be a witness who was there and heard them break something, and maybe a transcript of what they said in the video will probably be enough--especially if we're talking some $150 knickknack. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
It’s he said she said. Nobody knows if the piece was broken before maintenance showed up, if the roommate actually broke it and fabricated this story to cover it up, or if maintenance did it. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
welcome to small claims court | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Exactly. That’s the only way this would get sorted out. OP would likely get non-renewed if it came to that as well. Technically illegal but there’s a thousand reasons that you can legally nonrenew someone without it looking like retaliation. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Any non-renewal after a tenant has sued you for damaging their property is going to look like retaliation. You pretty much have to renew them if they want to renew.
Small claims is the venue for this kind of complaint, and it's a circus of hearsay. If OP shows up with a written statement from their roommate, and a printed transcript of the recording they're going to win. The maintenance workers aren't going to show up. It's going to be the rental office manager or staff, and they'll have no idea what they're doing and won't be able to testify to anything with first hand knowledge.
The magistrate will look at the evidence OP presented, hear the office manager testify that her maintenance staff claimed they didn't break anything. OP can object to hearsay, but the judge or magistrate will know anyway, weigh OPs testimony more heavily, and they'll win $150, and the whole thing will take less than 10-15 minutes. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
You absolutely don’t have to renew. Need to rehab the property or a family member moving in would work. Or they just start increasing their rent over and over until they’re driven out.
If OP only wants $150 then the LL will just pay it and start the process of getting them out of there. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Well, I guess you don't HAVE to, it's just that you'll get sued and lose. That's always a choice you can make. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
The level of proof they need to show its retaliation is so high, a LL would basically have to put it in writing. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
Wrong once again, retaliation is also a civil issue.
The burden of proof is still lower, and almost never is retaliation put blatantly in writing.
Circumstantial evidence is useful, states have different guidelines on it. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
I assume you haven’t actually looked into this at all? | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
No. You clearly haven’t though. Considering the other wrong information you shared in the thread it’s not worth going too much into it.
Feel free to check out the laws and guidelines on tenant retaliation. It’s pretty straightforward.
The tenant takes legally protected action. Landlord doesn’t like it, decides to take adverse action. Tenant sues, shows retaliation. Landlord cries.
All civil cases have a likelier than not standard of proof. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
You have renters insurance?
Submit a claim for the broken items. Yea, the PM should compensate you as well. I would await their response, give them time to investigate internally. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
I’m in Philadelphia. I moved out of my house left it super clean but the landlord is telling me he has to take me to court because he has to paint some of the walls over I tried wiping spots but the paint is so cheap it comes off. He said I need to replace the baseboards because it’s spots on them or repaint. How can he take me to court I told him as a landlord he’s suppose to have his paces sanitary for the next tenant anyway we are not in charge of painting and replacing baseboards that are not even properly on I can fit 2 quarters under them bugs crawled from under them so he wants me to fix them when he put them in himself n not a license contractor. Nothing is damaged but he said the walls n baseboards are dirty. He’s threatening me with court I think because he doesn’t want to give me my security back. What do I do? I’m not replacing his baseboard. | r/renters | post | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
How is he telling you? Verbally, text, a letter? Is the security deposit worth losing to get him out of your hair and move on with your life? You're not being taken to court until you receive that summons, it's all malarkey on account of the landlord. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Ll needs to send an itemized list of repairs and associated costs within the time frames dictated by the laws of your area. There are very specific laws around how repairs need to be reported as well as the timeframes. Know the laws and then do nothing until you need to by law.
But as a general rule in life... people can usually take you to court for whatever... doesn't mean they will win. Also doesn't mean that they won't end up owing you more money for doing so. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
You should know the drill. What landlords and property managers can charge for are pretty much anything beyond normal wear and tear. That's the kicker -- determining what is wear and tear. A great deal is also put on the term of the tenancy. The longer the tenancy the more things will need to updated just out of general maintenance and you should not have to pay for those things. It's all very subjective which is why YOU have to take photos of anything unusual or damaged on move in. Anything else should be in a maintenance request, even if you don't expect it to be resolved -- at least it is documented. That's the way to protect yourself. And yes, there are some landlords who take advantage of tenants at move out time to make updates and repairs that are either unnecessary or unwarranted. So, your defense is that (1) this is absolutely normal wear and tear (2) existing damage as seen in these move in photos or maintenance requests (3) the landlord is lying -- making up damages out of whole cloth and here's my proof that the place was perfect. Good luck, | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Tell him if he doesn't give the full security deposit back that you'll take him to court, and then he'll have to pay your legal costs too.
He is absolutely bluffing, and threatening to "take you to court" because he wants to bully you into letting him keep your deposit. Call his bluff, and know that the law is actually on your side in this. He won't be able to keep your deposit if it goes to court and he'll spend way more on legal expenses. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
He’s verbally telling me this it’s 2200 yes it’s worth me getting it back | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
I went down this road. If you didn't take pictures of everything when you moved out, if it goes to court, it becomes a he said/she said and the courts usually rule in the LL favor. The LL will have pictures and documentation and everything to try to sway the favor towards them. We got our $1400 but it was after over a year in courts, lots of missed work, lots of legal investigation and in retrospect, I should have let them keep the money and not taken them to small claims court.
I want to tell you to call his bluff and see if he takes you to court but that could backfire.
Has he explicitly said that YOU must fix these things or that he has to keep the deposit to fix these things? Be specific please.
Do you have ANY proof that you cleaned the hell out of the place before you left? Carpet cleaner rental receipt? Cleaning supply receipt? Was anyone with you when you cleaned? Have them write a statement and sign and date it. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
LL has less time now but needs to send you an itemized list in a certified mail to what he claims you on repairs. Generally, they will add wear and tear to try to keep your deposit. Let him take you to court. Get all your receipts and before and after pictures. And go to court and make him prove you did all that damage. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
We have videos of us cleaning and the videos after it was cleaned we have receipts of cleaning supplies. When we did the walk though with him we recorded also. Nothing in the lease states we even had to clean but that’s just we do. We are very good with documentation our last LL tried taking us to court for missed rent and didn’t know we kept rent receipts all the way from 2014 n he lost. We don’t play but we just don’t like him trying to basically steal from us because he wasn’t expecting his house to be in tip top shape and we get all our money back | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Then you should be good. Call his bluff, send him a certified letter that you're still waiting on your security deposit and give him a date when you're expecting it. Don't mention court. Don't make threats or ultimatums. If you have proof and video and you did a walk through after with the landlord, you'll be fine if it goes to court. I don't think the LL has the scratch to do it.
I assume it's a person/small business and not a rental corporation, so thats 100 times better (we had to deal with Friedman Realty, they're all over Philly, Delaware county, and NJ. Stay away!) | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
I hope you took photos of everything before you gave him the keys. That will help you when you take him to court over false charges to your deposit.
Fyi, normal wear and tear also needs to be taken into account. Depending on how long you lived there. good luck. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
You can sue anybody for anything at any time that is not the problem the problem is winning your lawsuit...
If he does decide to sue you you still need to show up in court or he wins by default...
He may be just trying to scare you into paying... | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Yeah I bet he won't even take you to court and he's just trying to steal your deposit and hoping you don't take him to court. If you have any pictures or a video from when you moved in and also the same for when you moved out and it's as you say you should be good.
If he's really trying to rip you off and still if you're just security deposit take him to court. That's the only thing I know to do. I'd make sure I had enough some sort though. Worst case scenario if you don't want to mess with it is he'll probably just take your deposit and call it even. Of course I wouldn't be able to guarantee that. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-27-07 |
At this point, I feel there’s nothing I can do and I move out in a few days. But for future reference, can my landlord bring his dog into the house I’m renting? Especially if I’m not there? He brings it over even if I’m not home (for showing to potential new tenants).
Last time he did this, his dog attacked my dog and she got very nervous and afraid. It is a 90 lb untrained labradoodle, and he insists they’re friends. They are most certainly not. Is there anything legally that prevents this? | r/renters | post | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
(PA) I rented out my vacation home with a written contract that stated I would keep a $500 deposit if there was any damage to the property. The tenant sent me a photo of a wall he repaired, which his children had damaged. He did not inform me of the damage once it happened, which meant I had no chance to inspect and decide how best to repair it. Can I still keep the $500? I will need to at least paint. | r/renters | post | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
I think you would only be able to claim the real damages it costs to paint. Your clause about keeping $500 arbitrarily is probably unenforceable. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Thank you | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Told me that I would have to pay $100 to have someone come and look at it. i replaced it myself and we discussed it and he said it was fine as i gave him a key but now he is saying that we had discussed it already and that i can’t change the lock?
confused boomer moment. do i just take out my door lock and leave a hole in the door? i’m not paying 100 for a broken door piece that was his responsibility | r/renters | post | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
He's definitely got to provide you with a door that locks. It's 100% his responsibility. Let him know that if he doesn't like the lock you put on the door, he can replace it with his own, but if he doesn't provide you with a door that locks then he's in breach of the lease agreement. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
If you have nothing in writing you are at a disadvantage. Yes broken lock is on him unless he is asserting you broke it. Send him an email that you expect him to fix it as his responsibility and will not be paying extra. Use words like habitability and landlord-tenant statutes. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
So. If you ignore the issue what happens next? Nothing? Because that's what I'd do.
You took care of it, it's a non-issue. If the landlord wants to take further action that's on them from here. Nothing more you can do to help. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
OP messed up. The LL probably actually thinks that the lock worked and OP decided to change it. Now, since OP has already changed it, they can’t prove that it was initially broken.
OP should’ve told the LL about it on move-in day and gotten it fixed. Can’t just take matters into your own hands without going through the proper process first. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Just throwing around buzzwords we see in this sub isn’t going to get the job done😂. The LL probably thinks that the lock did work and that Op either broke it or wanted to change to his own locks. This is why move in inspections r so important, OP should’ve noted and reported the lock not working before even bringing the first box inside. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
OP did tell the landlord, it says in the post. LL said OP would have to pay for someone to fix it. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
well he said i wasn’t allowed to change the lock, that me and him already discussed this. he’s insisting that i remove it, im not sure how to put the broken one that he had put on. so i guess i just remove my lock and have a security hazard? | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
No - that's not what I said.
Leave your lock, let the landlord take action if they want beyond that.
That's it. Don't do anything. Why make this harder for yourself? | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
It doesn't matter what the LL thinks happened. It also doesn't matter if the lock was working at move in day or not. LL has a responsibility to provide a locking door. If it's broken, he's got to fix it. OP asked him to fix it but LL said it was OP's responsibility. OP didn't mess up at all by fixing it.
If landlord doesn't like the lock OP used, then LL can replace it with whatever lock they want. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
It should have been before move in. LL thinks that OP broke it. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
The LL is allowed to charge for things that OP broke. They didn’t say that they wouldn’t replace it, they said that OP would need to pay for it.
None of this confusion happens if you walk around the place and note everything that needs to be fixed before moving in. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
I received an eviction yesterday and noticed they put the wrong date that I was served the 5 Day Pay rent or vacate. On the states court website they have a 5 Day to pay Rent only.
1st Question: Can her and her attorney just make up forms?
While also looking through the eviction paper. There is several clerical errors. Several times they have it listed that I was served by the Constable on 6/27 (x2) and 07/07. They have a paper within their documents that state I got served on 7/1 that was given to them by the Constable.
2nd Question: Aren't these forms needing to be filled out correctly and accurately?
I have a judge that is very black-and-white. He likes his paperwork to be filled out. He will throw out cases if you don't fill out an answer form and try to come in ready to stand your ground.
Any feedback/advice is welcome. | r/renters | post | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
You need to ask a lawyer not randos on Reddit. Not being a dick, if you seriously are looking to fight this on a technicality, you need a good attorney doing it. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
I understand but i dont have any in my area. But i am looking. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
NAL. To get anywhere on this you'll need one. And I am not all that sure it will matter. Yes, legal forms and submissions should be correct. But there are errors and there are ERRORS. Do these rise to a level where they can just be overlooked, corrected and refiled or void the process? My guess it might result in some scolding for sloppy work and allowed to proceed or they might be forced to "do it right" and refile. I doubt the matter will be decided with prejudice in your favor based on this. But stranger things have happened. Personally, I'd be packing my things and finding a new place to rent -- like yesterday. Good luck, | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
We have been looking and have been for quite some time now. A lot wont rent to use cause I cannot use my landlord has a rental reference and they want that. So we are stuck. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Well, obviously that's not going to change so you have to work around that. With the eviction being filed -- that's already a public record in most places -- the reference is only a part of the problem. Nobody is going to tell you that it's an easy road. I lived in AZ as a renter for 28 years. The big complexes are often managed by large, national operations. With the ongoing litigation you are radioactive to them. You are going to need to find a smaller operation, maybe even one who deals with "second chance" tenants. They are going to be in prime areas or offer much beyond a roof over your heads, but you are kind of in an "any port in the storm" mode. Nobody wants to enter into any kind of agreement with someone who is in court with their previous landlords over just about anything. That's just the way it is. I've sent a link that I found with a simple search -- I have no idea if it's legit or not, but you can see there are some options -- WARNING -- you are easy prey for predatory everything so get your spidey senses tuned up to 11 when looking into anything like these offers to help. [https://mynextapartment.com/second-chance-apartments/](https://mynextapartment.com/second-chance-apartments/) | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Hey guys, state is FL. so the rundown is I got a new apartment, and I got the washer and dryer hooked up by a friend. When they place the hose in the designated hole for draining the washer, the pipe underneath was not connected to that hole. We didn't know this until hours later when the two lower floors beneath me flooded and so did mine. We also didn't know this until I came back to my apartment and saw that a piece of the wall was loose and when I pulled it, it came off and revealed that the pipe underneath was never properly connected to the hole. I don't have insurance, because leasing office told me at signing when I was asking for certain details that my insurance people requested that I didn't need to get renter's insurance. They are now saying that I am responsible for paying the fees/bill for the dehumidifier and fan that were replaced in all three units. I wasn't given a move-in checklist, nor would I have known about the piping disconnected without pulling that piece of the wall off meaning it was already a pre-existing issue before I moved in.would I be able to get an attorney involved here? Or am I responsible? Please help. I'm a college student and this is my very first place. When I mention that there was no way for me to know about the preexisting issue, they disregard it and said an inspection should've been done by me. | r/renters | post | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
In June we applied for an affordable apartment complex run by Tam Residential. We weren’t able to see the inside of the apartment before move in but we were able to see it from the outside while it’s being worked on through the window. We went often to see what they were working on.
They told us the fridge is fairly newer and works great. We’d be getting a replacement stove that was newer than the one previously there. New carpet, newly painted cabinets, and several things fixed.
Once we were approved toward the end of June, they asked when we’d like to do the move in. I requested the 8th, but management wanted us in on the 1st.
So we come to do the move in on the 1st. We did do the walk through and point out anything we saw. I mostly focused on the building itself. Asst. manager showed us that the bathroom vent was making scary loud noises so it would be replaced within the same week. We have a screen for the window that needed replacing. There’s an old rug that looks like it’s been there for a long time, and yard maintenance leftovers like vines and sticks from bushes on the front porch, which she said she would have someone remove. We pointed out the ceiling fan was caked in dirt. The door has a small area below where bugs can easily enter and I point it out but they say it should be fine. They also were in the middle of fixing a hole in the bathroom door. Which was supposed to be painted same day. The stove had easy off in it, so we couldn’t open it. The blinds in the bedroom don’t work, and need to be replaced. The living room blinds are installed too high and need to be lowered. Because you can easily see inside, especially at night. All these were written on the checklist for the home before move in. Asst. Manager says they’ll fix everything within the week. Maintenance came by and sanded the door, told us he’d be back to paint it, but never came back that day.
After moving in, we realize the appliances have not been cleaned. I didn’t open the stove but the top and under the range is caked on dirt. The fridge was grimey, sticky, and smelled. Every corner has dust and cobwebs. Everything had to be cleaned from the top down so that’s what we did for a few days.
Couple days later, Asst. manager goes on vacation for 4th of July. We come in on the 5th to ask about the repairs and maintenance needed for our unit. The primary manager says maintenance will come tomorrow to fix what we needed done.
So Saturday the 6th rolls around. Maintenance comes by. Tells us the part needed for our vent is on order, says it should be in around Wed of next week. Says he can fix the screen on the bedroom window in minutes, and he’ll come back to do that. He fixes the bedroom blinds. So now they work. He needs to buy paint for the door, so he says he’ll be back to do that. He doesn’t do anything else that day, doesn’t come back.
8th, we try calling to have maintenance come back for the other repairs. Their phone lines are down. We can’t go in that day, so we wait until the 10th, the Wednesday the vent parts should be in. We go in and let them know about the repairs, assistant manager says maintenance is working on other projects, they’ll call us to set up a time to come and do repairs. We also mention the yard garbage, and they had yard worked on site, so they said they’ll go inform them immediately to pick up the vines/bush stuff.
We never got a call. The yard garbage is still there. I call on the 16th and one of the office girls answers, and I tell them the yard garbage is still there. She says she’ll leave a note for maintenance.
I’m a freelance artist that works from home, so I have to catch up on work. My husband and I did an insane amount of cleaning, and it took up so much of my time, that I had to take a break from it all to work. So I did, still never got a call. Garbage never removed.
On the 18th, in the morning well before they opened, I sent an email to the office regarding all the maintenance that is still not taken care of. We only have that one vent to rid the apartment of moisture, it’s an old apartment and there’s no centralized air. It’s very insulated, so it can be prone to mildew. So we haven’t even showered or set up anything in the bathroom, since I know maintenance is going to leave a mess in there for the vent repair. Even to this date, there was still cleaning to do in the kitchen before we could use it. It took me 4+ days to clean the stove alone. 3 for the fridge, and so on. 19th, we go in to ask about the maintenance needed. Assistant manager is on vacation again. Primary manager isn’t there. Just the trainee office worker. We let her know we still have a lot of maintenance that needs done. She tells us that maintenance has been busy and they have a bunch of vacancies they’re handling. And then says she’ll leave a note for maintenance.
It is the 23rd. My email has not been responded to. We still haven’t received a call. No one has tried to reach out.
And we have had bugs of various kinds entering our apartment through the crack on the bottom of the door, I mentioned before.
I’ve barely lived in this apartment because we had to clean it before moving our things in. And with the maintenance not being done, I don’t know what to do at this point. I’m not confrontational, and I don’t want to be a problem tenant. But it’s almost a full month. This apartment was not move in ready, and I feel like I would like compensation for all the time spent not actually living in my apartment. I want things fixed. There’s a small part of me regretting even renting this place. I’ve tried looking up WA tenants rights, and I saw there is a law that if repairs aren’t done by a certain time, we can move out and get our rent back, prorated? But we signed a lease so I don’t know if that’s possible? | r/renters | post | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
When I read this, the red flag for me was "the fridge is pretty new and works great". I would have walked right then and there. Who says that? It's like bragging about the toilets flushing "real good". This site should answer most of the basics. Good luck. [https://www.wsba.org/docs/default-source/news-events/publications/consumer-pamphlets/landlord-tenant-0211.pdf](https://www.wsba.org/docs/default-source/news-events/publications/consumer-pamphlets/landlord-tenant-0211.pdf) | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Hello! I live in a beautiful apartment with my friends and I have done for the last year. the building that my apartment is in is old, and my bedroom has huge windows (one is 3.2 metres wide by 2 metres tall). Our apartment is furnished, however my bedroom does not have blinds nor curtains. The landlord has given me permission to fit my own blinds and my own curtains, however when I looked into how much this would cost, it was a budget that I simply could not justify paying, especially as this is not likely to be a permanent home for us. The caretaker for our apartment complex is currently carrying out some restoration and general touch ups of the block, and this is including painting/varnishing the window beds/cills on the outside.
I don't generally mind not having blinds day to day, and to block out the sun I have put up tapestries between wardrobes and draped tapestries accross the lower half of the smallest windows in my bedroom, however due to the sheer size of the larger window, I cannot do anything about this.
Due to the work that has been going on, it has meant that I have woken up very very early numerous times to the caretaker on a ladder painting my window cills, which gives him direct eyesight into my bedroom, and if I am asleep, it means that he can see me directly in my bed. This, to me, is a huge invasion of privacy. I have tried calculating the times and days when he will potentially be doing work to my window bed, but the times and days of the week are different every time. I'm generally quite a messy person, and it can be embarrassing if I am not expecting him to be working on it due to the fact he can see in my room: even more so due to the fact i am a 22 year old girl and he is a 50 year old man.
We do not get contacted by our landlord when the caretaker is conducting work around the property, which is fair enough. I've tried asking the caretaker if in future he can please tell me at least the day before he decides to do work on the windows or gutters or anything that means he can see directly into my bedroom, but unfortunately he does not do this.
I was wondering, if there is anything at all that I can do about this? I know "just getting blinds/curtains" is the easiest option, but it is a lot of money and in my minimum wage job, i cannot justify spending such an insane amount for custom sized blinds/curtains for a property i might vacate in a few months. I'm not sure where i stand legally. Like I said, I have used tapestries as sunshades between my two wardrobes, which so long as the work on my windows is being conducted to the lower proportion of my windows, the privacy isn't such a problem anymore, but due to the sheer height of the windows, i cannot reach the top.
Please help me because it's making me sooooooooooo anxious lol x | r/renters | post | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Below is a kitchen and living room and if my roommate is down there then I can hear him and see the light from the kitchen / living room. I thought about a curtain and a tension curtain rod, but I don’t think that would help with sound at all. | r/renters | post | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Noise canceling headphones. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Hi, can someone please help me understand what this part of my lease means I’m looking to break my lease and dont understand what this section means. | r/renters | post | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
What part needs clarification? | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
If you decide to move out before your lease it up then youre obligated to continue to pay rent until the unit is rented (basically). | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
If you stop paying rent, then the landlord can evict you. If you've moved out, obviously, they won't be able to get an eviction.
Your lease says your landlord can try to come after you for any damage to the property and for the rent amount from when you broke the lease to the end of the lease term or when they find a new tenant.
In practice, none of that will happen. If you move out, they'll keep your deposit, and you'll all move on with your lives. Don't even give them your new address, and you'll probably never hear from them again. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Very untrue. If you just leave the property... usually, the LL will still go ahead and procedurally go through an eviction process and then collections. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
lol, no. You can't evict someone who isn't living in the home. If they try, then you just show up in court and say you've vacated the property, and it gets dismissed. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Sure you can. If the tenant abandons the property without paying rent, then it's pretty easy actually. Post notice to cure on the door and then file for eviction after cure period. The court will still process eviction and just enter default judgment when the tenant never shows up to court. Easy day. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Thats what I thought thank you | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
That is certainly not how the process works in MA or any state I've ever heard of.
The purpose of an eviction is to remove the tenant/occupants from the house. If they're no longer occupying the house, then all they have to do is show up in court and state that.
In MA, you have to send a notice to quit. A notice to quit is a demand that they return the property to you (aka move out). If they do that, then you can't file for eviction. In this case, they would have already moved out before you even sent the notice to quit. When you file for the eviction, you have to state that they are currently occupying the home. Claiming that they're occupying the home when you've been notified and are aware that they are not is illegal. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
You might want to brush up on your own state laws. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
lol, you don't even know what an eviction is. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
You don't even know what a tenant is | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
I know what it's not. It's not a person who lives in a different house. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Wrong again | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
So you believe that a person who does not live in a house that you own is your tenant? And that you can evict them from a house that they are no longer living in? Explain what a notice to quit is then, please. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
No. I believe if they move to some other property they don't own, then they are still a tenant.
Notice to quit is for unpaid rent. Eviction is to take back legal possession of the property that the tenant walked away from.
Again. Read your own states laws. This is all basic contract law and normal abandoned property process. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
You are very confused. Before you can get an eviction, you have to send them a notice to quit or a notice of breach with a specified date to vacate. There's some version of that in every state. You can only file for an eviction if they DON'T vacate the property. If they vacate (which is what the OP intends to do) then you can't "take back legal possession of the property" because you already have it. They moved out all their stuff. They gave you their keys. They're gone. You're in possession. They're not your tenant anymore, bud.
The only way you could get an eviction is if you lie on the eviction complaint, which is a crime, and claim that they are still in possession of the property. When the sheriff goes to the property to serve them the eviction complaint papers, they will see that it's not occupied and that you lied. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Yikes.. still didn't read your own state laws is see. Do a bit of research and stop giving bad information, bud. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
First of all, what state do you think I live in? | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
That's not 100% accurate. You don't have to continue to pay rent, but the landlord might be able to sue you for it later. It's actually a very bad idea to continue to pay them money after you've moved out. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Your obligated to pay for duration of lease unless there is a buy out clause or punishment (standard seems to be 3 months) if you abandon and LL files a suit then your boned because you will get collections and a judgement on credit. Its not an eviction at this point its lawsuit for contract. If you disappear then he can pay $50 file a judgement, you ignore and dont show, he gets ruled in favor and you screw yourself i future. kjnd of like a payday loan and you will continue poverty cycle | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
You are both retarded and having different conversation. If dude moves out the eviction is crossing legal Ts and protections aks process. It is not all is forgiven dude or Tennant is still on hook for lease agreement aka any money it costs to recover fees. etc. costs add up quick and you can tuen a 500 loan into 2k debt in a blink without being scummy. Lease has the FU section to renters basically in it. all do. if you are poor and so what. a 50 filing fee will get a 2k judgement in blink of eye and that is a debt on person credit. so what now but when you get a new loan or auto or anything that will certainly affect you. few percentage points across life of a loan is a slap in face to you later. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
The conversation is "can you evict someone who is not your tenant" and the answer is "no." Nothing you've said refutes that. You're talking about something entirely different, which is collecting unpaid rent after the tenant has surrendered possession. An eviction is to force them to surrender possession so if they've already done that, you can't get an eviction just for spite because you want to make it hard for them to rent again. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-24-07 |
Located in NC, So my lease ends july 31st. I gave her a 30 day notice that we wont be signing another lease. She contacted me and said it had to be 45 days notice and that after our lease ends it would go month to month and wed HAVE to stay and pay for august. Is that even right?? | r/renters | post | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
So, I notified my landlord of a serious leak in my closet THREE MONTHS AGO. He finally came in and cut this whole in my ceiling last week and then left. No notice over whether a plumber is coming anytime soon or not.
So the thing is, while he did this, he saw that I have a cat. I've been under the impression that he knew I had a cat. I didn't hide her. I've been here for a year and a half and she has caused ZERO damage to anything in the apartment. We're in the middle of a text discussion about the cat- he told me that I have three options and that he'll meet with me tomorrow to discuss the options.
Now, I'd really like to get on him about fixing this because it's GUSHING water now, but I'm scared that if I press him to get a plumber he'll just evict me over the cat (the lease says no pets, but the listing for the apartment said that cats were allowed). Should I keep silent about this hole and just live with it just to keep my apartment? I can't more right now, but I plan to move in January.
I'm in New York State
| r/renters | post | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
If I get my three options in writing and one of them is to pay a deposit or rent increase (which I'm sure will be an option), can I then get on him about this leak? Can he still choose to evict me over the cat after I get in writing that he gave me the option to pay an additional fee?
I feel like he's just doing this to prevent me from forcing him to fix this (which I haven't done at all. I asked him about it three times in three months, and that's all, no letter or anything).
Oh, just wanted to add that this guy is the nastiest, most unreasonable person I've ever met. He makes sexual comments all the time and scolds me and his employees for things out of our control. I actually just had a conversation with his employees in which they told me what a raging asshole this guy is. I can't wait to move.
Also - I've never been late on rent (including after it was raised) and get along great with his employees and the other people living on the property. | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
Get on him about the leak regardless. If you gotta dump the cat for a few days at a friend's place, dump the cat.
Water leads to mold and mildew, which leads to respiratory shit. Beyond that, this is his property, he should know what water does to houses and want to fix it regardless.
At the end of the day, if you're violating your lease, you're violating your lease. Does having your cat stay with you another week in flood conditions really matter at this point? | r/renters | comment | r/Renters | 2024-23-07 |
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