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This was after a credit check (I paid for) + references filled out the day prior
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2024-24-07
The only thing maybe illegal here is if the original apartment was never really available and all of this was a bait-and-switch to get you to agree to one of the more expensive ones.
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2024-24-07
Did he say that it needed to be signed by a certain time or anything. Sounds sketchy.
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2024-24-07
It makes sense that the cheaper rent would go first/faster.  You snooze you lose.
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2024-24-07
I rent an apartment that is owned by people out of state; all my interactions about the unit have been with a local property manager. My front door lock does not work from the outside. We are able to use a (shared, cramped, far from where we park) back staircase to enter/exit and leave the house locked when we leave, a...
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2024-24-07
If you're renting, the property management should be replacing the lock if it is failed/failing. I don't know the specific rulings for OH, but as a locksmith I have never heard of a tenant being responsible for lock replacement except in the scenario of the tenant breaking it or it having to be broken in a lockout situ...
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2024-24-07
You renting? If you have to pay for yourself, then the owner does not get a copy. It's now your own personal property. Save the broke lock for when you leave and exchange it back.
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2024-24-07
I would replace the lock with one I bought at Home Depot. I would remove the lock that I purchased at Home Depot when I terminate the lease. If she requires a key for the door, then she is required to replace the lock with one that works. But, I’m not going to go out of my way to convenience her of that. I’ll just us...
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2024-24-07
https://www.managecentralfloridaproperty.com/blog-breaking-lease-florida-21.html
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2024-24-07
Thank you! It says there that the land lord must provide the liquidated or present damages fees verbiage at the time of signing which he did not. In that case does that imply that we should I be able to break with zero fees?
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2024-24-07
Without an early termination clause you’re responsible for the entirety of the lease barring specific circumstances. From what you’ve described, none of those circumstances give you an out here. Many issues being unaddressed and/or the unit being uninhabitable would give you an out. Frequent but promptly repaired issue...
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2024-24-07
No. The obligation to include the fee options in the lease only applies IF the landlord wants to offer this early termination option in the lease AT ALL. They don’t have to offer (yours did not). It’s kinda weird but this explains some of why a landlord or tenant would want or reject the options. https://www.nolo.com/s...
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2024-24-07
Context: our windows do not open and the a/c units are similar to what you'd find in a hotel. My a/c has been leaking water and its seeping up through our floorboards. The only contact I have been able to make is through the emergency maintenance number and all they do is clear out the condensation tray and apologize. ...
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2024-24-07
I'm sorry OP, but I just have to ask ... How hard is it to clear out the condensation tray?
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2024-24-07
Tools that I don't have and a shopvac that I don't have. The question isn't why don't I have the tools, its why does the tray overflow into the apartment and why hasn't management done anything even though they've known about the issue for weeks. This isn't an isolated issue, every single unit is having the same proble...
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2024-25-07
So my probation officer, has offered me rental assistance but my apartment is in someone else’s name so I made a fake lease in my desperation. Now my probation officer wants to mail it to my leasing office. I’m afraid she’ll mention my real name in the letter. Do you think I can just tell the apartment it’s my son’s na...
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2024-24-07
Well, you can either continue to lie and dig the hole deeper and commit even more fraud. Or you can go have a conversation with your probation officer, be honest, and hope for some forgiveness. I think the smart move would be to not commit any further fraud and come clean before any money changes hands.
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2024-24-07
O m g. I’m sorry you decided to go down the deceptive path first. Good luck. Being honest should always be the choice no matter what.
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2024-24-07
Whose name is the apartment in, and why did you lie?
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2024-24-07
Yoooo don’t lie to your PO. Big mistake. I 1000% recommend backtracking, let the PO know it’s in someone else’s name and hope for the best.
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2024-24-07
Oof. Okay this path your on, you really need to change it’s course and quite quickly. What you’ve done, is a federal felony fraud. Several issues will arise from this. You need to absolutely stop the trajectory of this path immediately, to stop the damage. There isn’t a way out of this. 1. You tell your PO about ...
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2024-24-07
Empathy for a person who is caught lying?
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2024-24-07
I have empathy for a person who feels they have to lie to survive. There is a difference.
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2024-24-07
No, a lie is a lie. Plenty of people survive by telling the truth. OP made his bed. But thanks for showing your morals.
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2024-25-07
You made this into something it’s not. But thanks for your comment, it shows me who you are.
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2024-25-07
Yes, someone with morals. Bye Felicia!
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2024-25-07
I live in a 4-plex. My direct neighbor got two puppies about a year. I have two dogs as well so no issues there. As long as they’ve been there, I’ve never seen them outside to potty (which I thought was weird), but whatever. I had one of my dogs outside about 6 months ago, on a leash as per our lease, and seen their do...
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2024-24-07
Long time lurker, first time poster. I moved into a house in June. When we first looked at the house it had full carpet and a old appliances. The realtors doing the showing told us that the carpet would be replaced with laminate and all of the appliances would be replaced with new stainless steel appliances. The kitch...
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2024-24-07
Were any of these "promises" put into writing in the lease? What does the appliances section actually say?
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2024-24-07
I don't see much in there. Nothing about the promised changes. Only the standard "Tenant shall maintain" type of language
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2024-24-07
Unfortunately if it’s not listed in your lease, he’s not obligated. He isn’t going to update the kitchen, it’s an income property for him, he isn’t improving the house for value. He’s making it livable, and somewhat esthetically pleasing. Probably didn’t realize the built in, are going to require a more expensive/s...
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2024-24-07
Unfortunately, what the realtor had to say in their verbal marketing versus what the landlord had in mind appear to be different things, and if it is not locked down in writing in the lease then there's not much legally that can be done.
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2024-24-07
If you're a renter, what you see is what you get.
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2024-24-07
(Mods, I hope this is allowed. If not, please delete.) Do you have any advice to give to someone starting out on their renting journey? Are there any recommended or pinned posts, etc? What should I watch out for? What can I do to make things easier for all involved? Any laws I should be aware of? Policies I should be ...
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2024-24-07
In California, the landlord has to inform you of your right to a pre inspection. They are supposed to give you an itemized list of what you need to repair before your move out date. I opted to have a pre inspection but the landlord has not given me the list of repairs. Our move out date is coming up. What happens i...
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2024-24-07
So I have a lease that was technically supposed to end May 30th. I ended up talking with my landlord and we agreed on extending until July 1st. Except this was never put in writing or emailed about, never updated the lease, or anything. We just discussed on the phone and came to an agreement. Now here we are on July 24...
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2024-24-07
If you both agreed to to extend the lease to July 1st, are you really willing to commit perjury to try to claim the lease ended May 30th?   File in small claims if he doesn't get you the deposit and itemized damages before August 1st or if he does and you disagree with the damages.
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2024-24-07
My landlord claims I signed a lease that she gave me a copy of. I have no evidence of the copy but a photo of the front and back of the lease. She claims hers is different than mine and that I signed it. I only ever signed one and that is the one I have the picture of. Will my picture of the lease hold up on court? TX
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2024-24-07
She'd need to produce the signed lease in court to refute your assertion that you never received it What's the difference in the leases?
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2024-24-07
1. Lesson learned that you should always keep copies of important and legal docs. 2. What dispute are you having with your landlord that this has come up? 3. Will your photo hold up in court? It all depends. Is the front and back photo you have representative of the entire lease or only two pages of a larger document...
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2024-24-07
My lease says “this agreement can be cancelled at anytime by either myself or the landlord. If I chose to no longer work at location I will not receive any refunds on any remaining time paid” and she claims hers says that I need to give 2 weeks notice. However, I rent by the day, not week, or month. Out of courtesy I w...
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2024-24-07
30 days notice is pretty typical, 2 weeks even seems short. That line may refer to it being a month to month lease rather a 1 or 2 year lease. I think expecting to just move out on a random day w/o notice and stop paying rent is unreasonable for any renter agreement. But I guess if you just pay them every day instead o...
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2024-24-07
I did give 2 weeks from the planned move out date. I told her July 20th and paid through August 4th.
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2024-24-07
Does this look like someone broke in???
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2024-24-07
Broke in? No. A weak attempt? Maybe.
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2024-24-07
I rent a apartment in Savannah GA at a really nice and well maintained complex and I am currently in the move out process. August 31st is my last day. I had a preliminary move-out walkthrough scheduled for last Friday at 1pm. I never left the place until a little after 6pm since the office closes at 6. I was home all d...
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2024-24-07
I've already had service techs from the company come out here 4 times to all say the same thing. There is no thermostat, AC, Heat in the upstairs of the house (half of the residence that we can't even use). It gets as hot as 90F everyday now. They have already said they're not paying to put any unit upstairs, and the...
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2024-24-07
If it's a lease based violation you go to civil court if you can't get the landlord to act. Municipal or some government code violation would normally go though a local Housing agency to start. It is really unusual to have AC listed as any kind of requirement, even in the hottest of regions. If there is an existing uni...
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2024-24-07
I'm really curious about the verbiage in your contract. Usually AC is not a protected right. Just because AC is mentioned in the contract doesn't mean it's for the whole house. That would generally be just relating to the existing system, regardless of coverage. Heat is an iffy thing here because heat rises and it's no...
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2024-24-07
North Carolina attorney here, but I'm not your attorney and you should never take legal advice from a rando on Reddit... Ever. Unless there is something in your lease that guarantees A/C throughout the premises, I doubt you have much recourse. Nothing in state law requires your landlord to provide A/C and I don't kno...
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2024-24-07
**TLDR:** She fucked around and found out. Due to her own greed Landlord costs herself $$$. So apologies first and foremost for the novel that will unfold, but I figured this might be a fun read for folks and despite the stress the past 2 months I'm pretty freaking ok with the result. If you want to skip to the Juicy ...
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2024-24-07
I want money too guys
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2024-24-07
"give us money because we're gay"
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2024-24-07
My favorite line is “we require $5,000 to secure a new vehicle” 😂
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2024-24-07
What the fuck
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2024-24-07
Hi, In nyc by the way I know I may come across as stupid in this post. I’m not stupid (maybe a lil) but I am just wanting to see if there’s any options I have legally to report this behavior if the issue didn’t get solved (and if I will ever see the money again lol) So I see an apartment listed for $1700 I go through ...
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2024-24-07
I do not want to give anyone regular access to my fenced-in yard twice per month. That was not in the original lease and it feels like a violation of privacy. It also just says "usually on wednesdays" which is not acceptable in terms of detail. I can't deal with any of this on a regular basis but if I must, I absolut...
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2024-24-07
LL can access the house or yard anyway with appropriate notice... So not sure why that wording matters.
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2024-24-07
Like seriously why do they want access so often? Did you ask? I’m just curious.
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2024-24-07
No idea. The property manager is always uppity about me not keeping a perfect yard even though it's mostly concrete and destined to be ugly. It makes me nervous because I'm super ADHD and do upkeep in large bursts rather than small consistent efforts, and my work schedule is super chaotic. This is stressing me the hell...
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2024-25-07
It would me too!
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2024-25-07
Hi all, I moved into a new apartment in NYC about 5 months ago. This is in a building with a building/property manager that I'm supposed to interact with. Before I moved in, they asked for security deposit + first month's rent which I paid. After having moved in, for about the first 3 months, their online payment port...
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2024-24-07
I wouldnt pay anything extra. Log, maybe from your bank account if it was an online payment, that you did indeed pay your security deposit& first months. Put the money you owe for rent after first months aside for when they come asking. If you have emails reaching out about I would log those too. Then stop stressing a...
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2024-24-07
It's reassuring to hear that from someone else. I really don't get why they don't want to come get their money. Ideally I could just give it to them and not have to think about this anymore but I'll keep waiting for them to give me a response. I have a receipt they gave me after I paid the security deposit and first m...
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2024-25-07
I wouldn’t pay that first month again. But what I would do, is pay any new charges that appear. I’m assuming once month 2 hit, you saw on the portal the charges from the paid first month + the new month. You should be able to go in and make a payment, edit the payment amount, and pay only your current month’s rent th...
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2024-25-07
>But what I would do, is pay any new charges that appear. I’m assuming once month 2 hit, you saw on the portal the charges from the paid first month + the new month. So I only got access to the portal about 3 months after my lease started and by then they had just given me an initial charge for those 3 months. I was a...
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2024-26-07
I'm in Ontario. I was on lease till August, then asked my landlord to move out as soon as possible since I would be travelling and this place was honestly a hygienic mess and way overpriced (I was paying 850 for a tiny room). Landlord said if he could find someone before the lease was up he would not hold me responsib...
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2024-24-07
Need desperate help
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2024-24-07
Hello everyone, i had just recently lost my job and have been saving up for my rent that is due next thursday. i’ve currently saved up 700 &’ just need 400 more. i have a job lined up to start next month but my landlord is requesting i pay now or everyday it’s late will be 10 added. please anything on cash app or venmo...
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2024-24-07
Pay with a credit card for now if you can.
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2024-25-07
Upon notifying my landlord that my roommate and I needed to break our lease, he informed us that we needed to arrange for professional house cleaning and carpet cleaning in order to receive our security deposit back. He offered to arrange the cleaning himself and just take money from our security deposit to pay for it....
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2024-24-07
Sounds like you will have to take him to court. You put the ball in his court by not having things cleaned yourself even though I understand why you needed to at the time. Check your local municipality to be sure of the process and your rights.
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2024-24-07
LL only have to supply you with an itemized invoice of the cleaning. They can do the work themselves. Appliances are an extra fee and time consuming for move-out cleanings. $500 is about the standard going rate for a house this size on a move out turn. Just because you kept it relatively clean while living there is ...
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2024-25-07
Do you have a lease?
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2024-24-07
I'm not a lawyer, but I read a lot of stuff about things like this. The TL:DR- your LL probably is allowed to do all of what they're doing, please seek mental health help and then legal advice, if you're doing anything illegal in your place, stop doing it, and if you keep giving your LL a hard time they are going to e...
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2024-24-07
You’re wrong and entitled
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2024-25-07
Because you denied entry after receiving a 24 hour notice they have rights to terminate your rental agreement with a 30 day notice in California. It is considered an at fault eviction. Do you have security cameras and video of them entering without consent? If you don't there won't be much you can do. I would look into...
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2024-25-07
From my understanding, they didn't deny after a notice they denied when the LL showed up unannounced. From what's posted, the LL has ever to actually give a 24 hour notice an email the night before doesn't count
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2024-25-07
I just moved into a new apartment and as I was deep cleaning the kitchen cabinets the inside of the cabinets started to peel off. There is a layer of non-waterproof paint or something all inside the cabinets. So anytime I clean the inside of the cabinets I’m wiping up tons of peeling paint. This doesn’t seem cleanly ...
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2024-24-07
Perhaps they painted over pre-finished sealed cabinet with latex paint without sanding or priming? Or, maybe they just put latex paint over oil-based paint? Most pre-fab cabinets and doors are painted with oil-based paint for durability. Cabinets are usually sealed with some type of oil-based paint or they are lami...
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2024-25-07
Hey yall, I have lived in my new house for about 6 months, the landlord lives next door and is an 80 year old woman. My last place was owned and operated by a larger company and fixes etc were never really an issue. My new landlord is….very frustrating and is borderline crossing some boundaries. Right off the bat, th...
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2024-24-07
Time to saddle up and ride off into the sunset.
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2024-24-07
Yea that’s what I’m thinking. My plan was that this was going to be my last rental before buying but I’m not sure how long I can live here. Thing is, it’s a beautiful house in an AMAZING location, it just needs some work…I wish I owned the place
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2024-24-07
Maybe you can buy it from her for a decent price and fix it up. She can't afford to maintain, but you like the house.
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2024-24-07
Water heater aside, you can fix the leaky windows for quite cheap, and likely a lot of other annoyances, without much disturbance to the look or feel of the home.
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2024-25-07
Weather proof windows are a habitability issue. As is hot water. Tell her to fix the issues or you walk. If she can’t afford to make repairs she can’t afford to operate a rental property and should sell.
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2024-25-07
Research your state Owner-Resident Relations Act to see what recourse you have to force the LL to make the repairs.
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2024-25-07
Weather proofing is habitability requirement. I'm sure there are other code violations as well. If it is a house, I believe you would contact the LA County Dept. of Building and Safety. You could also try contacting the LA Housing Dept. The problem with just moving is that the next tenant will be stuck with the same ...
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2024-25-07
You gave OP a very good idea. Good thinking grasshopper.
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2024-25-07
I am currently renting a house and the leasing company has been mediocre but now is down right terrible… The first issue we had was the dishwasher broke. Informed the leasing office of the situation and scheduled a replacement to be installed. The maintenance company that was hired never showed up which caused my fian...
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2024-24-07
I think "they be trippin" on this one.
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2024-25-07
I'm almost positive they can't harass you about that grass unless it's in the lease saying that you'll maintain it and keep it green. Hell then it may not even be legal. That's crazy. I'm not a lawn connoisseur but you can't just immediately take care of a lawn and make it green. Lol. That's really weird and it almos...
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2024-25-07
Do they do a walk through at the end of every lease period? I've only had that upon moving out.
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2024-25-07
Next it will be. You cannot sign the lease until there are no clouds in the sky.
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2024-25-07
LL and tenants both have the option to not renew. Seems like they would prefer a new tenant rather than have you sign again (just my opinion here). You can always accept the terms of the renewal or decline, and submit your notice of intent to terminate. Check your lease and state law on what that timeline is.
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2024-25-07
Green spray paint
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2024-25-07
That’s sheet rock not asbestos
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2024-24-07
This is drywall? Like the material you physically wall is made of…
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2024-24-07
If the walls haven’t been replaced since the 80s (I think that’s the decade) it’s possible but you would have to get it tested to confirm if I’m not mistaken
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