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Extra Month Penalty
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Recent Advice By: (scroll down to see reply) KURT \| RENTER Stressed As Well \| Renter Got advice? Respond to this post Need more advice? Post new question Related posts: lease has been fufilled, stayed an extra month, left with short notice, am i entitled to my deposit Extra rent because of bad bug treatment on Move-out month to month agreement The apartment above mine was infested with bedbugs, Management initially denied it, once exterminators came in,they said the entire building was infected even though we have had no sign of them at all in our 3 bedroom. I find it hard to believe that we have them and me and my 2 roommates are unaffected nor do we see them. Anyway, we had to pack everhting in our bedrooms into plastic bags and move everything to center of room. Because we live in nyc our bedrooms are small and this makes for a completely unlivable situation. I chose to stay with a friend outside of the city until the issue was cleard. I have had to pay 400$ exatra a month in travel expenses as well as what im sure is about $200 in food expenses since I can not stay at my own place. It has been a month and I just found out that we are unable to unpack our things for ANOTHER month. I feel it is unfair that we have to pay our rent when we can not even stay in the apartment! Is there anything that we can do? Can my Landlord do this? Hi everybody. Me and my roomies signed a 6 month lease 6 months ago, which will end on the 30th of this month. We are all going our seperate ways, so we decided not to extend the lease. Upon the landlords inspection, she gave us a few things we need to repair, which we are fixing, but then asked for an extra months rent while they searched for more tenants. Are we legally required to pay this? We have paid the total amount of rent listed on the lease, and the lease states that it will not automatically be extended at the end of the lease. Any penalties or extra fees all deal with early termination of the lease, which is not our situation as the lease is terminating as per the conditions stated in the lease. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this? I will be checking this forum for the next few weeks, but if you have any advice and can email me, I would be very appreciative. Thanks for the help, M. Groat (mgroat@gmu.edu) Originally posted 2008-06-22 13:42:17.

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lease has been fufilled, stayed an extra month, left with short notice, am i entitled to my deposit
Extra rent because of bad bug treatment on Move-out
month to month agreement
The apartment above mine was infested with bedbugs, Management initially denied it, once exterminators came in,they said the entire building was infected even though we have had no sign of them at all in our 3 bedroom. I find it hard to believe that we have them and me and my 2 roommates are unaffected nor do we see them. Anyway, we had to pack everhting in our bedrooms into plastic bags and move everything to center of room. Because we live in nyc our bedrooms are small and this makes for a completely unlivable situation. I chose to stay with a friend outside of the city until the issue was cleard. I have had to pay 400$ exatra a month in travel expenses as well as what im sure is about $200 in food expenses since I can not stay at my own place. It has been a month and I just found out that we are unable to unpack our things for ANOTHER month. I feel it is unfair that we have to pay our rent when we can not even stay in the apartment! Is there anything that we can do?
Can my Landlord do this?

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2 Responses to “Extra Month Penalty”

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Stressed As Well

July 3rd, 2008 10:54 am

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If it is not stipulated in your lease that you must pay additional rent until they find a renter….then you are not required to pay.

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KURT

November 24th, 2008 11:22 am

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I moved into a house in april 2008 found traces of mold in bathroom in june.Inotified the landlord about this problem and he send this guy to repair it.the repair man takes off the old moldy tiles in the bathroom and replaces it with laminate causing more mold build-up and the owner accepts this job,to make matters worst…. the heat does not work ……in november .How can i solve this?

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