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My two year lease is up in 5 months. The owners of the property have decided they want to sell the house. The have advised me that they are putting the house on the market this month. I am not comfortable having strangers in and out of my house over the next 5 months. Is […]
About 3 1/2 months ago I was bitten by something that evidently I was allergic to. I first visited an emergency clinic then on to see my physician as I was getting no relief. The places were spreading and itching like crazy. I take medication for anxiety on a daily basis. As you can imagine […]
I have several broken windows in my apartment, they were broken when we moved in. We have shrink wrap over them, as to keep the air in/out and the bugs out. We have a swamp cooler, which requires us to open one window in each room just a crack. We can’t open a window in […]
My landlord wants me to take out a 300 thousand dollar insurance and add her and her husband name to the policy. I took out a Renter’s policy and sent her the pertinent parts of it, but I didn’t add her or her husband to it. I know she uses the address as her business […]
We signed a 30 day notice to vacate, but missed our final inspection date which was the same date we were suppose to vacate. We were one day off, our mistake. The landlord changed the locks and refused to let us in to retrieve our belongings and clean the apartment. Is that legal?
I live in an apartment complex ( about 270 units) I got infested with bed bugs, I reported to the complex manager and she said it is my fault cause nobody has reported bed bugs infestation, so she adviced me i take all my furniture to the garbage container. Checking around the property found that a lot of […]
So.. I have just renewed my lease but my landlord added a clause that I must pay rent 5 days early (the 25th of each month instead of the 1st) or there is a $50 late fee, on top of which if I pay after the 1st there is an additional $25 late fee (total […]
Included in my lease agreement, the tenant was responsible for anything over 70 dollars for water. During tenancy, I forgot to collect funds. I deducted it from securty deposit. Can I do this?
I have had to call the maintance out 15 times. They left a whole in my ceiling, from a leak upstairs, for over a week. They never fix anything completely and we have had mold on in here. Hey told us they would fix the walls with it and haven’t yet. There is still a […]
We will have lived in our apartment just under two years come move out date. Our property management is charging us $60-$90 to paint the walls, $85+ to clean the carpets, and $14.50/hr for cleaning which they say takes 6-8hrs. I was under the impression that if you had resided in a propery for a certain […]