Abusive Landlord??

Tenant — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:19:04 +0000

We are in the process of moving out of our house. We have been there for 3 years and our lease is up. Our landlord has been over during this period maybe 3 times for maintenance, etc. Now that we are moving out, he calls and leaves me a voicemail with 20 minutes notice that he is coming over to do a walkthrough, change filters, etc. I have an 18 year old daughter there. 20 minutes doesn’t even give me time to check messages and warn her someone is coming over. In addition, he has set our water sprinklers to water and padlocked the controls (we are paying the bill). We just had a period of flash flooding and we were still watering our yard!! On top of that, he says we need to replace the carpet in two rooms. We have had pets so I agree it needs to be replaced. However, he will not apply our deposit. He has said that he "does not apply deposits". We need to have it repaired in order to get our deposit back. Last item – we have struggled to see our lease through as our financial situation has changed. He charges us a $250 late fee. When we make a payment for the next month, he is applying it to the late fee and we are getting charged another late fee because we are "short".

We are paid up until the end of the month. The only thing I want is for him to leave us alone until we finish moving. Any guidance, feedback, etc. is appreciated.

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What do we do it the landlord doesn’t show up for final walk through?

Itawei — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:36:17 +0000

We have been renting this place since 1/05. The lease expires on 4/30/09. In January e told our landlord that we won’t renew it. He never got in touch with us to discuss this it. In the meantime he hired a realtor. Last week we sent him an email and told him our moving plan. We told him that he has to be at the house for the final walkthrough. If he would be unable to come, he can give the authority to a person of his choice. We insist on getting a written authority letter signed by him. This letter has to include the name of the person who can act on his behalf. His signature has to be authenticate by a notary public. This action is necessary because he is our landlord and only he can take over the apartment. The ownership of this duplex is not clear to us. In my opinion it really doesn’t matter. His name is on the lease contract and that is fact. We haven’t gotten a reply so far and we might not get one. We are sure that this family tries to trick us. We gave them a 2.5 month deposit. We live close to NYC. You can imagine how much money that is. We always paid the rent on time. We are going to leave this place spotless. We would do everything to make this so smooth as possible but our landlord doesn’t make it easy.

My question is: What do we do when he doesn’t show up on 4/30 and nobody else shows up? If you have any other suggestions which could be helpful to us, please post them. Thank you.

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Abusive Landlord??

What do we do it the landlord doesn’t show up for final walk through?