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Archive for June, 2010



Date: Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 9:38 am Category: Landlord Problems
Cleaning fee woes

I paid a cleaning fee when I first moved in. Now I’m moving out and my landlord expects me to make the place spotless. I’ve asked her to call in the cleanin service she says the fee is for but she demans I clean as per the lease.

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Date: Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 8:25 am Category: Uncategorized
Natural Bedbug Treatment Options

I’ve got a friend that has bedbugs in their apartment.  They’re having a hard time getting any sleep.  I know there are a lot of different bedbug treatment options.  However, I would like to see if there are any Natural Bedbug Treatment options.  Both my friend and I hate using harsh chemical as we feel [...]

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Date: Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 7:30 am Category: Landlord Problems
how to fight back being falsely accused?

I believe my landlord is going to try to evict me for a health hazard violation that is totally not true.  I believe they are saying I messed with a smoke dectactor when I did not. It is very close to my bathroom door, so when showers are taken the thing goes off.  So I [...]

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Date: Monday, June 28th, 2010 10:28 pm Category: Landlord Problems, Legal Questions
Refusal to Return Deposit

My former landlord is refusing to return my deposit.  Once we moved from the property Elite Real Estate sent a letter stating that they are refusing to return our deposit due to the condition on the property.  I have asked for proof of their claim and an itemize statement of the charges.  I was told [...]

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Date: Monday, June 28th, 2010 8:42 pm Category: Landlord Problems, Renter Q & A
Can a landlord charge a $200 move-out processing fee?

Can a landlord in Minnesota charge a $200 move-out processing fee?  Also, I have submitted in writing to the landlord about things that need to be fixed in my apartment and nothing has been fixed.  My windows have even been painted shut and I have asked for these to be fixed since I moved in.  [...]

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Date: Sunday, June 27th, 2010 10:21 am Category: Uncategorized
Bedbugs

I live in an apartment that has bedbugs.  It’s not a severe case but I have them nonetheless.  I’ve tried bombing the place with a bedbug bomber, but that didn’t work.  So I notified by landlord about them.  Now they’re making me pay $250 to have an exterminator come.  I have to basically bag up [...]

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Date: Thursday, June 24th, 2010 5:20 pm Category: Landlord Problems, Legal Questions
Move out date of June 25 but landlord charges for the whole month of June

My daughter’s lease was up June 25 but the landlord required her to pay for the whole month of June and even asked that she not turn off the utilities until the end of the month. He said this is his standard way of leasing his 148 units. I told her that she was to [...]

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Date: Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 6:03 pm Category: Uncategorized
Problem with new noisy neighbors

My husband and I have lived in our townhome style apartment for 16 months… the previous neighbor was loud at times but never enough for us to complain.  However 2 months ago new tenants moved in.  They have 3 kids between the ages of 10 and 13 (estimated ages).  The kids always have friends over [...]

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Date: Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 10:29 am Category: Legal Questions
Moving out, how to keep address private

We are about to move out of a duplex.  We have had a difficult time living under this landlord.  He lives nearby, and we see him at times sitting in his car watching us, or driving by (just to drive back to his house less than a minute later) and looking at us, even once [...]

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Date: Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 10:12 am Category: Landlord Problems, Legal Questions
can my landlord bad mouth me to other landlords

I lived at white rock village in el dorado hills, ca. The apartments are owned by mercy housing but I would like to tell everyone that there is no mercy when it comes to dealing with the property manager. I lived there for almost a year with my wife and my five daughters who are [...]

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Date: Saturday, June 19th, 2010 3:26 am Category: Landlord Problems
I got screwed….

I was renting a home and decided to find something closer to my work and my children’s school so I gave a 30day notice to my landlord. Six weeks prior to giving notice my landlord came up to the house and looked over things and had asked if we had planned on staying another year [...]

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Date: Friday, June 18th, 2010 1:31 pm Category: Uncategorized
Can my property management company do this?

I have been in my house for 5 months and the property management place wants to evict me because my rent is 15 days late. 
I am prepared to pay the rent with the late fee of 50 dollars but he refuse to accept it w/out the eviction fee.  I refused to pay a 500.00 [...]

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Date: Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 1:06 am Category: Uncategorized
Help my Apartment has bedbugs!

Help my apartment is infested with bedbugs!  I can’t sleep, so I did a google search and found the RPA.  Anyone have any ideas on what I can do?  It seems like my bedbug problem has escalated a lot during the last 2 weeks.  Now its unbearable and I can’t sleep a wink.  

I’ve talked [...]

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Date: Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 12:49 am Category: Frustrated Renter, General Topics, Legal Questions, Renter Q & A
Rights during eviction?

I have been living at these motel/ apartments since november 2010. when i moved in it was on a month to month basis & it was verbally agreed that i cud pay $400 on the 5th & $400 on the 20th of the month. i never signed any kind of lease or agreement, and very [...]

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Date: Monday, June 14th, 2010 11:54 am Category: Frustrated Renter, General Topics, Landlord Problems, Legal Questions, Rent Horror Stories, Renter Q & A
Being forced out

I have been renting a half a double for over 2 years. My landlord sold the place 4 months ago and the new landlord has been collecting rent with no problems until now. He dropped off an 18 page front and back lease 1 weak ago and is pressuring me to sign. there was no [...]

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Date: Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 3:28 pm Category: Frustrated Renter, Legal Questions
Management not providing landlord contact info

Hello, I am a renter in the Tempe area of Arizona. I am renting from consolidated assets management, a property management group. After many issues, I recently asked for my landlord’s name and telephone number. They refuse to provide such information. 
 
I am wondering if there is a law that requires renters to have access to [...]

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Date: Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 6:48 am Category: Frustrated Renter, Legal Questions, Renter Q & A
Can they change the gate policy???

Hello!  I have been renting an apartment for about 3 1/2 years now.  I have had NUMEROUS problems in the past, so maybe this is just the last straw.  The community I live in has a gate.  In the past, to open the gate you needed a FOB (for those of you not familiar, a [...]

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Date: Sunday, June 6th, 2010 6:36 pm Category: Legal Questions
Is my lease binding…

My husband has lost his job locally but found another job in a different state.  As I was reading our lease agreement I noticed that, although the lease is in both our names, only I signed it.  Would this make the lease invalid and therefore release us of the remaining 3 months of the lease?

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Date: Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 6:58 pm Category: Frustrated Renter
can my landlord do this

i rent two rooms in san diego county. my boys got caught smoking pot on just one day and my landlords that live in the house too caught them. they want to punish my kids, take away the computer, their cell phones, tv, xbox, ground them for 1 month, no friends for 6-12 months, drug [...]

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Date: Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 12:30 pm Category: Apartment Complaint, Frustrated Renter, Landlord Problems
Landlord is inept, tenants below are nightmarish

Silva22
(Landlord) has proven to be completely inept. His foot dragging on cleaning the apartment prior to our moving in, fixing some minor and few major problems from the very beginning were a clear indication of  the future but we chose to try and look on the brighter side.  Now 8 months into living here even the most [...]

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