landlords... !@$!@%*&!
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
This is why you should keep a spare flute at the office...
well, I have flute music here.... if I had the flute I would just hit a lot more sour notes... :laugh:
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Christian Graus wrote:
I prefer to have good, happy tenants who won't leave or wreck the place.
that is the thing... we left the place near spotless... If anything it was cleaner after we had been there because my wife is ... very neat... two rooms were never used... the still showed the imprints from the furnature that was there when the house was a model home. Because the house was a model home before we rented it, the carpets were well used. We pulled the weeds, we cleaned the dust out of every window sill. The place was vacumed so regularly because of their allergies it never had a chance of accumulating anywhere. You could see the imprint of some of the furnature, but no footpaths anywhere except the stairs, which still showed the "signs of extremely high traffic" I noted before we moved in.... I was in an apartment for 5 years the manager talked the owner into giving me a full security deposit even though the lease actually reads that they keep the cleaning fee. Because they saved so much money having me as a long-term resident it was worth their while. I am trying not to be mean, which is why I am venting here. The landlord claims he never got so much trouble as with us in his 7 other leases. He says he knows more about being a landlord than we do, even though we had to find out what he had to do to get the city straightened out because he didn't setup landlord agreements with any of the utility companies. For an "experienced" landlord so far he seems about as experienced as a certain poster in the Visual C forum.... and we had to wait on the workers to fix his house over the last 6 months from heating, cooling, leaks, electrical and phone problems. I thought I was done with this stupid house... and on to my own problems with my own house... but I guess this one is still haunting me.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Sounds like you have done everything proper. Echoing the comment of others, try small claims court. I had to use it once and it worked fine. No hassle, cheap, and the judge first asked the parties to talk things over. Just have your agreement and other documentation available on court date. If the landlord never shows up nor contacts the court, you should win the case automatically. Heck, even if talking it out in front of the judge gets you 50% back it's probably worth a hour of your time.
Gary
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Sounds like you have done everything proper. Echoing the comment of others, try small claims court. I had to use it once and it worked fine. No hassle, cheap, and the judge first asked the parties to talk things over. Just have your agreement and other documentation available on court date. If the landlord never shows up nor contacts the court, you should win the case automatically. Heck, even if talking it out in front of the judge gets you 50% back it's probably worth a hour of your time.
Gary
ghle wrote:
If the landlord never shows up nor contacts the court, you should win the case automatically.
it's not a bad idea, though a bit cruel... the landlord lives in california.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg
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ghle wrote:
If the landlord never shows up nor contacts the court, you should win the case automatically.
it's not a bad idea, though a bit cruel... the landlord lives in california.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg
El Corazon wrote:
it's not a bad idea, though a bit cruel... the landlord lives in california.
OMG He's one of those. GET HIM!
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John C wrote:
Tell him to "piss up a rope" as they say around here.
unfortunately he is keeping all this out of the security deposit.... so telling him to piss off in local vernacular still doesn't get back the money....
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
I learned back in my renting days that a security deposit was just found money as far as the landlord was concerned. The only time I ever got the security deposit back was when I rented a house from my mother. The worst time was my first apartment. I had a lease for the first year we lived there, and then went month-to-month afterward. When we left after four years, we gave the landlord a month's notice. Six months later I got a bill in the mail for six month's rent. Supposedly it had taken them that long to re-rent the apartment. That was a complete crock, as we had visited friends in the building shortly after we moved out, and our old apartment was occupied. I called the landlord and told his bookeeper that they would not harass me about paying the supposed back rent, and I wouldn't report them to the FBI for fraud. Bastards.
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I may hate builders, but there is a good reason to buy your own home... landlords.... charging me for turning off the electricity because I was supposed to transfer it into his name.... He didn't set the electricity up under a landlord agreement so it had nowhere to revert to, so he is charging me fees for extra cleaning (using a generator) as well as to turn back on the electricity when he didn't file the right (*^(^(*^!! paperwork. sorry, had to vent... right now I am furious enough to .... drink an extra cup of coffee... I need it. grrr...
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
As an employee of a power company I can assure you - the landlord is entirely at fault for having to use a generator to clean the carpets. Unless there are terms in the lease agreement that require you to keep the power in your name until the cleaning is done, he hasn't a legal leg to stand on. Find a lawyer, and you can own the house. :-D
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As an employee of a power company I can assure you - the landlord is entirely at fault for having to use a generator to clean the carpets. Unless there are terms in the lease agreement that require you to keep the power in your name until the cleaning is done, he hasn't a legal leg to stand on. Find a lawyer, and you can own the house. :-D
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Roger Wright wrote:
the landlord is entirely at fault for having to use a generator to clean the carpets.
plus he owns the property next door, never rented it, so a long extension cord is easy, I even own two.
Roger Wright wrote:
Find a lawyer, and you can own the house.
the hard part is getting the time... I wonder if my cousin (a lawyer) would make a nice kindly firm letter.... hmmmmm
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)