The property management we rent from are horrible, evil, unethical thieves. They love to bill for bogus work and don’t return calls. I’ve never paid rent late and even turned them into the Better Business Bureau because they can’t substantiate their charges. I’ve also paid their bills but have emailed them to let them know I dispute the charges. Their only response is if I don’t pay they’ll take it out of my rent and then evict me for not paying rent in full. When I ask to have them explain their charges I get either no response or “we’re looking into it” (six months later, they are still looking into it). I don’t want to break lease because then it will look bad for me but I want to know what I can do to protect myself so that I can get my $1500 security deposit back. I googled them and found they have all kinds of bad remarks about “fake” charges when during leases and when people leave so they can keep the deposits and it seems as though they have never returned security deposits. My question is, what can I do to ensure they have no reason to keep my deposit? I’ll paint where the bed rubs against the wall in my boys room and re-caulk the showers (as a previous renter said they charged him $350 to recaulk the one shower). I just want to know if anyone has any advice so I can avoid getting their super-inflated charges. Thanks!

I rent a condo from a property management company. My one-year lease expired on January 1, 2010. I contacted my landlord in November 2009, advising him I would like to renew my lease for an additional term. My lease indicated (hand-written into the lease by the landlord at time of signing) that a further one-year lease term was an option at the end of the first term. My landlord did not respond to my email in November 2009. I called him a week after I sent him the email. He said that would be fine and he would send the lease documents over. In January, I still had not received the renewed lease documents. I emailed and called him again. He said that he was on vacation for 4 weeks and would do the lease when he got back into town. I called him 2 weeks ago. He said he had not been in touch with the owners, but would call them. I called him 1 week ago - he said he had spoken with the condo owners and they needed some time to think about it; he said he would let me know in a couple of days.

The owners of the condo have a daughter. In September 2009 the owners (with their daughter) came to look at the unit. They said that the mother and daughter had not seen the unit and simply wanted to see it finally. They said they were in town because their daughter is attending university (a 30 minute drive from the condo). They said the daughter would be residing on campus.

I really want to stay living where I am. I have been a perfect tenant. He has never had to speak to me once, rent is always paid in advance. I have a feeling the daughter may want to live in this condo come this September - as she is continuing her studies.

What should I do? Should I just start looking for a place now?

Thanks!

I rent a condo from a property management company. My one-year lease expired on January 1, 2010. I contacted my landlord in November 2009, advising him I would like to renew my lease for an additional term. My lease indicated (hand-written into the lease by the landlord at time of signing) that a further one-year lease term was an option at the end of the first term. My landlord did not respond to my email in November 2009. I called him a week after I sent him the email. He said that would be fine and he would send the lease documents over. In January, I still had not received the renewed lease documents. I emailed and called him again. He said that he was on vacation for 4 weeks and would do the lease when he got back into town. I called him 2 weeks ago. He said he had not been in touch with the owners, but would call them. I called him 1 week ago - he said he had spoken with the condo owners and they needed some time to think about it; he said he would let me know in a couple of days.

The owners of the condo have a daughter. In September 2009 the owners (with their daughter) came to look at the unit. They said that the mother and daughter had not seen the unit and simply wanted to see it finally. They said they were in town because their daughter is attending university (a 30 minute drive from the condo). They said the daughter would be residing on campus.

I really want to stay living where I am. I have been a perfect tenant. He has never had to speak to me once, rent is always paid in advance. I have a feeling the daughter may want to live in this condo come this September - as she is continuing her studies.

What should I do? Should I just start looking for a place now?

Thanks!

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Long story short, my roommate does not want to pay half of our parking garage fees, since she claims it’s not fair. However, on our lease, it states we owe 125 for two parking spots (no one spot is worth more than the other, although she claims her spot is worth 25 frm the old lease).

It would financial benefit both of us to stay in the apt- and I don’t understand where she gets off pulling rank on me because she moved in two years before i did. On our new lease, she is given no more/no less priviledge than I am. And if she doesn’t pay her full half, or if I don’t’ cover what she’s refusing to pay, we can BOTH be evicted since we are held equally responsible.

Should I pay for the remaining months and then after moving out, take her to small claims? I have emails from her stating that she doesn’t think it’s fair she pays, and I have statements and copies of my checks showing that I’ve consistently paid on time my half. We lease from a big property management company- so how empathetic will they be to my situation?

I went on craigslist to search for jobs and I got a reply from a company called EJL property management in asheville, NC. The human resources managers sent me a link to formally fill out an application but yet the link doesn’t work and when I google them I can’t find anything. The email seems legit and not like a scam or anything and the job description has me extremely interested so if anyone can find anything on them that would be awesome !

My lease (it went from a 1 year lease to a month to month in August of 2009, but the lease states that in the event the property goes month to month that all terms and conditions stay the same, with the exception that either party may terminate the contract with a 30 day notice.) states that the landlord must give me 120 days notice prior to listing the home for sale, however as of right now I still have NOT received anything in writing and have not heard from the owner, but my property management company called yesterday to let me know that the property is in foreclosure and that the owner has hired another realty firm to list the property as a short sale. My property management company then issued the owner a 30 day notice to terminate their property management agreement, they also told me that the owner has not paid the mortgage since August 2009 and that it will go to trustee sale in early June (the default was filed early Feb. 2010). I just paid my March 2010 rent on Friday and today I get a voicemail from the owners “selling agent” telling me that I have to show the house and that he is coming to inspect the home later this week as he has now retained the listing on the property. Do I HAVE to let him inspect the home? Do I have to let them show the home? I have yet to receive any notice from the owner stating that he is either giving me a 30 day notice to vacate, nor the 120 day notice of his intent to sell. My property manager also told me that when they asked the owner about my security deposit that he stated he no longer has it as he had to use it to try to keep up the mortgage payments. What can I do? I do not have the money to move as I just paid my rent for this upcoming month, and it appears I will not be getting back my deposit. ARGH! Help please!
I understand that I have now been given notice as of yesterday, however as I have already paid my rent for March, does that not allow me to live in peace for the month of March and then allow the property to start getting shown 30 days AFTER I was given notice? And how do I recoup my deposit? It’s obvious I can’t sue for it as the owner has no money. The agents message said that the owner would discount my rent by $100 per month to allow for the disruption, my current rent is $1700 so $100 doesn’t do much for me, nor does it repay my security deposit.

Long story short, my roommate does not want to pay half of our parking garage fees, since she claims it’s not fair. However, on our lease, it states we owe 125 for two parking spots (no one spot is worth more than the other, although she claims her spot is worth 25 frm the old lease).

It would financial benefit both of us to stay in the apt- and I don’t understand where she gets off pulling rank on me because she moved in two years before i did. On our new lease, she is given no more/no less priviledge than I am. And if she doesn’t pay her full half, or if I don’t’ cover what she’s refusing to pay, we can BOTH be evicted since we are held equally responsible.

Should I pay for the remaining months and then after moving out, take her to small claims? I have emails from her stating that she doesn’t think it’s fair she pays, and I have statements and copies of my checks showing that I’ve consistently paid on time my half. We lease from a big property management company- so how empathetic will they be to my situation?