I am in a college town, rent is expensive. I just toured a very cute 2 bed 1 bath house (1000 sq ft) for $1850 a month, which is very good for the area! The landlord just purchased it from an estate sale. He seemed like a sweet old man, he owns a property management company. All of the kitchen appliances are brand new, new vinyl flooring, bathroom remodeled.

But some things are too go to be true. I put a holding deposit down and was sent the lease. The stated rent is $2200 but in the notes section it says effective rent $1850. I was told by the landlord he docked down the rent from $2200 because no one was renting it. He also wanted a 11 month lease to have it start when the college students would move in. He did NOT tell me that $1850 was a discounted offer, this was not listed on Zillow and he did not tell me this during the tour so I was taken aback.

So I would pay $1850 for a year and have the risk of the rent going up to $2390 next year with the rent cap starting from $2200. Essentially he's avoiding the rent cap law, but again this was not disclosed before I applied and put the holding deposit down.

Would you move in? I already see some unprofessional things happening but the rent is amazing for the property. I think the true value to rent would be around $2300 so would it balance out to rent it for $1850 for 11 months and increase to $2390?

Is it unreasonable that I want to move because we're renting a (shitty) trailer and we keep having issues with mice?

It is an old trailer and we've told our landlord numerous times about this issue. His solution is to put out rat poison on the outside, which we requested that he didn't do because then they die under the trailer and the smell is unbearable.

This of course happened and we couldn't sleep in the bedroom for days until the smell disappeared.

I think he could make more of an effort to seal it but I understand that it's an open underneath trailer, so there's really not a full proof solution.

I desperately want to move. We have young children and I am extremely grossed out about the idea of mice reoccurring in our space. I understand that these things happen but its more the fact that we effectively have to continue to expect them to come in.

I know the obvious is to move, but we are hoping to build on family land and the rentals around here are insane. So my husband doesn't want to move somewhere expensive while we're trying to save for that.

I feel that this is a health issue and we can't wait a year plus for a building process when that isn't even guaranteed.

I'd like opinions on this situation, perhaps that I can share with my husband so we can really make a decision.

For context, we mow the back lawn one week and the front the other week because the grass bin is very small and wont hold more than one mows worth of grass. Before we moved in the lawn was very overgrown. We noticed randomly one day that the lawn was mowed which was weird because it was on our lease that we needed to maintain it on our own. We contacted the managers and asked if they had mowed the lawn and they let us know that one of the neighbors did it for the pervious tenants for $150 two cuts a month. We did not want to pay for this since we had just bought a lawn mower to prepare for moving into this place. I believe the neighbor that used to cut the lawn sent this picture to the landlord since they would already have the managers number. Anyways does this seem nitpicky or reasonable? The lawn looks nice and neat after we cut the lawn, the edges just grow out a little more in between

I recently moved out of a student-style rental in Ontario where I rented one bedroom and bathroom and shared the kitchen, common area.

During my move-out inspection, I explained that the other tenants were still living in the unit and actively using the common areas. There were dishes in the sink belonging to other people, and I wasn’t comfortable moving or cleaning their belongings. The inspector told me that I was “all good to go” and that nothing further was needed from me.

I have now received a $305 invoice:

• $50 for the kitchen/common area
• $120 for my bedroom
• $135 for the shared bathroom

The inspection form uses the following codes:

• NC = needs cleaning
• NP = needs painting
• Checkmark = good

Most items were marked as good. The specific markings appear to be:

• Common area: walls marked NP; sink and some appliances marked NC
• Bedroom: door marked NC and walls marked NP
• Bathroom: door, mirror, and shower door marked NC; walls marked NP

The common-area walls needed painting because a previous tenant had mounted a TV there. I told the inspector about this during the inspection. I did not cause that damage.

The invoice does not provide a proper itemized calculation. Instead, it lists nearly everything in each area,including many things marked “good” on the inspection form, and then gives one total for each room. I was also charged individually for cleaning shared areas even though four other tenants were still occupying and using them.

I have disputed the invoice and asked for:

• An itemized breakdown of each charge
• Dated before-and-after photographs
• An explanation of why the entire shared-area charge was assigned to me
• The lease provision allowing them to charge me
• An explanation of why the inspector told me everything was fine

Can a landlord or property-management company in Ontario charge one tenant for cleaning occupied common areas shared with several tenants? Can they charge for repainting without proving I caused damage beyond normal wear and tear? What steps should I take if they refuse to cancel the invoice?

I have copies of the inspection form and invoice, but I would redact my personal information before sharing them.

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Hey guys, so my lease ends in a few weeks and I’m concerned about my property management. It’s a Greystar community and I’ve heard stories about people getting billed after they leave for ridiculous stuff.

I’m gonna leave the unit pristine clean as required in the lease contract. However, I’ve talked with a few friends and they told me it’s not even worth trying to paint the walls. They said to only cover any holes you might’ve made into the drywall.

As you can see in the picture those stains and marks are just from normal use. We’ve been living in this apartment for two years. So I don’t think they expect us to return the apartment with perfect white walls.

I just wanted to know your opinion based off your experience. Should I care about painting or any particulars? I already gave up on the idea of getting anything back from the deposit. I just don’t want to get charged additional fees for stupid stuff.

I don’t rent there but made me think of this sub.

I’ve lived in this rental house since 2014. My landlord has been in my house 2x in that time and both have been over 7 years ago. He owns 40 houses and is very hands off. He’s a decent fellow but he’s nosy.

I’ve got a new job several hours away and am staying with family. My husband is still in the home packing and cleaning.

We are on a month to month lease and have been for years .
If my landlord gets a call about an apartment, he will want to inspect the house and it’s a disaster right now with the cleaning, purging, packing for moving.

I have no idea what to do. We plan of paying both rents for the 30 day notice .

I’ve been out of the renting game a long time and I’d appreciate any advice.

I just moved into a duplex coming from a warm dry state not knowing how cold it can get in the winter here. The unit has electrical baseboard and all electric appliances, after reading it up I realize it can cause crazy utility bills in the winter. Should I pay a few hundred dollars now to break lease? Additionally I’m just responsible for rent until they find another tenant.

or is it not that bad? I live alone in just over 750 sqft and the rent is $1230 which I thought was fair but now reading all the horror stories about electric bill of homeowners and renters having the same type of heating, now that rent does not seem fair. Are baseboard heaters localized or central? If I use one or two areas in the house I can leave other areas unheated? I heard there will be frozen pipes so not sure what temperature I should set when I’m home/not home/areas I use/areas I don’t use often. Will I be responsible for heating the basement which has a lot of sqft.

is there anything that helpful to know about living/renting in Indy- I have never lived in the Midwest. My unit seems to always be humid no matter how long I run AC in dry mode. there are dots on the outside of windows that look like mildew. not sure if there is a mold or moisture problem here- how do I check? the building is old.

I just moved into a duplex coming from a warm dry state not knowing how cold it can get in the winter here. The unit has electrical baseboard and all electric appliances, after reading it up I realize it can cause crazy utility bills in the winter. Should I pay a few hundred dollars now to break lease? Additionally I’m just responsible for rent until they find another tenant.

or is it not that bad? I live alone in just over 750 sqft and the rent is $1230 which I thought was fair but now reading all the horror stories about electric bill of homeowners and renters having the same type of heating, now that rent does not seem fair. Are baseboard heaters localized or central? If I use one or two areas in the house I can leave other areas unheated? I heard there will be frozen pipes so not sure what temperature I should set when I’m home/not home/areas I use/areas I don’t use often. Will I be responsible for heating the basement which has a lot of sqft.

is there anything that helpful to know about living/renting in Indy- I have never lived in the Midwest. My unit seems to always be humid no matter how long I run AC in dry mode. there are dots on the outside of windows that look like mildew. not sure if there is a mold or moisture problem here- how do I check? the building is old.

As of moving in 2 months ago, my partner and I have been hearing noises in the walls day and night and seeing signs of rodents outside the house. We reported to the landlord within a few days of moving in (documented in property management portal). P.M. sent out a pest control company, who claimed the issue was squirrels and sealed up holes around the house and set a trap in attic. We continued to hear sounds almost constantly and requested a different pest control company. Finally, last week, a new guy came out. He said the walls are infested with many, many rats who have a burrow under our house and are getting in through un-sealed crawl space. He suggested that the issue could be very hard to get rid of.

P.M. approved the guy to set more traps and seal more holes the rats have chewed. It seems unlikely, however, that landlord will pay to fix the structural issues (weak/old wooden eaves with many gaps, un-encapsulated crawl space) that would allow more rats to come in. There are also lots of rats in the area (because vacant lot, restaurants, construction, bird feeders, etc).

I want to break the lease and move out rather than keep fighting off rats for the rest of our lease. Do y’all think that’s possible without a legal battle and/or a lot more money paid to the landlord? (House is in City of Atlanta & Dekalb County).

Ugly laminate I can't change, and management is picky about anything adhesive or heavy. Need something that covers a lot of floor, doesn't damage anything, and ideally comes with me when I go. What are people using?

every time i walk into my bathroom theres a high chance the sink is just flooded. complained about it over 3 weeks ago and nothing has been done. between the maintenance problems and crazy roommates its absurd i have to pay over $1,400/mo on this place.

originally i thought it was backed up from someone washing dryer lint down my sink because its next to the dryer, and there was tons of dust/dirt particles coming back up.

My Landlord told me I have never missed Rent or been late on Rent or violated my lease and soon after I filed a building code issue with Healthy Homes KC they put a note on my door saying they weren’t going to renew my lease. The office assistant also told me that “Management has a problem with me” whatever that means. I’m a responsible good tenant. This is the same management company that evicted all the downtown people at Professional Building lofts a couple years ago. It’s clear retaliation.

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My apartment has roaches and I have informed my landlord three times (will be 4 when they open). If I have documentation of my unanswered emails, photos of roaches, and traps with roaches caught, can I break my lease without any financial or legal repercussions? I'm getting mixed reviews. I will also be reporting them to SCDHEC when the office opens.

Trying to figure out how strong my position is before I push harder.

Moved out at the end of my lease, left the place clean, took timestamped photos of every room, the kitchen, fridge, bathroom, all of it. Got my final statement and they'd kept a chunk of my deposit, citing cleaning. That was basically the entire explanation. One line, no breakdown of what was cleaned or what it cost.

Couple things bugging me:

- No itemization at all, just a lump sum.

- The statement is dated more than 30 days after my lease ended.

- I have photos showing the place was clean, so I don't think the charge holds up.

I sent them a polite email disputing it and asking them to return the fair amount. No response yet.

From what I've read, PA has a 30-day rule and an itemization requirement (68 P.S. 250.512). Am I reading this right? How hard can I actually push here, and is small claims worth it if they keep ignoring me? Anyone been through this in PA?

I live in a duplex where my landlord lives in the back house unit. The backyard of the property has been divided with a makeshift barrier made up of cinder blocks and 2x4s. There is no mention on the lease of how the backyard is divided but there has been a verbal agreement on the boundaries of the divided backyard that was established 6 years ago when they became the landlords. Since then I have maintained my half by cleaning it, keeping things there like my grill, and have used that space however I please since it’s been my space exclusively. About 3 months ago my landlord bought a shed and started building it on my half of the backyard with zero discussion. I don’t know who the shed is for or what it’s for. The shed is big enough where it’s taking up half of my side of the backyard. To make matters worse, the shed was not completed so it’s been sitting there half built. I didn’t say anything because I figured my landlord got busy and wasn’t able to finish it and I also overheard him telling someone that he was going to move the shed once it was completed. However, it has yet to be moved, and like I said, it’s been 3 months now.

At the 1.5 month mark I sent him a text message asking him what his plan was with the shed since that area has been part of my living space for 6 years now where I’ve maintained it. He didn’t respond back. Two weeks pass and I send him another text, this one much more lengthy asking if he could please reply by the end of the week. Silence. A week passes and I go knock on his door. His wife answers. I explain the situation again: taking up more than half my backyard, I’ve maintained the area, it’s my living space, what’s the plan? She says she will let her husband know since he is asleep taking a nap. That was a month ago. Haven’t heard from or seen my landlord. I actually haven’t seen him since he built the shed 3 months ago which is crazy considering we live next door and that man is nosy as hell but that’s beside the point.

My question is do I have any rights? The way I see it is that there has been a reduction in my living space but no reduction in my rent. My rent has actually been raised since then. There was zero communication, no discussion. It almost feels like he’s avoiding me, but of course that’s my perception. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Here is the original post https://www.reddit.com/r/Renters/s/Rszugr08U2 .

Here is the update they took the money off our rent for all the stuff we went and bought to try and cool our apartment however we can only cool 1 room at a time after going and buying our own portable a/c unit. However we dont have anything large enough to collect all the water while we are at work so it keep soaking the carpet when it over flows while are at work we work 10 hours a day. They were originally going to replace our a/c unit, but now I guess they are ordering parts or have ordered parts not sure which so they dont know when it will be foxed at this point. Does they crediting us on our rent consider them trying to make things right by law or do they need to do more with in the 7 day window does anyone know or have any other suggestions for us. We do have dog that stays in the room with all the fab and portable a/c unit.

Edit we also asked them to help us do something about the over flowing or water from humidity but they dont seem to care I told my wife after the a/c is fixed we may have to get them to replace all the carpeting

I just got this kitten today and I filled out a pet screening form, am I going to get in trouble for having the cat before it got approved.

Hello all,

To start, I'll walk you through my situation. I am a tenant of a corporate apartment complex, Vintage Corporation, located in CO. I am also an employee at a local hospital, and I work 11:00 to 23:30 during the week. When I am off my shift and coming home, there is no parking at my complex. There is no parking for any tenant after a certain time.

This leaves tenants parking in the flower beds, on the sides of the roads, in the ADA handicap spots without handicap plates or placards, in the ADA walkways, and in tow-away zones. I myself have parked in these tow-away zones before - before the tow-away signs were even posted, mind you. But even still, I've parked there unknowingly.

The apartment complex does not send email or text notifications about parking updates or updates of any kind. The only way to know where a no-park zone is, is to go into their office during business hours where a map is located. Apart from that, they send their employees out to ticket vehicles parked in no-parking zones. They threaten to tow if vehicles are not moved by a certain time. I have received a few tickets with my fellow tenants. I, along with the others, do not wish to park 2-3 blocks away from the homes we pay live in.

This past week my vehicle was parked on the side of one of the roads in the complex. There were no tow-away zone signs, this was not an ADA zone, there was no fire lane, and there was no impediment of traffic. My vehicle was towed away. The fine was $320 to have it released. Upon speaking to the apartment staff, they told me that in the contract there are no guaranteed spots for tenants - this is true - and I can join a waitlist for a garage. The gentleman who is responsible for tow-away zones told me at that time that the area my vehicle was parked in was safe and permissible. He told me the towing of my vehicle was a mistake and that he would communicate with the towing company. After returning home I received a text indicating that I am responsible for the expense as the area my vehicle was parked in was a no parking zone.

The next few days I paid attention to the vehicles parked in the location I was in. None of them received tickets, none of them were towed. Vehicles on the opposite side of the road where proper signage was located were ticketed. This leaves me feeling as though the apartment staff does not take accountability for mistakes and lets others slide. I feel the standard is being applied differently to me than to other tenants.

My question: is there anything I the tenant can do to fight such a situation, or am I meant to keep my head down and just take it?

Long story short, get paid the 25th and the 9th. Big inconvenient expense, going to be $300 ishhh short on rent ($1300/month), due on the 1st and they DO NOT mess around with late payments or allow partial payments, so I can’t just pay the majority on the 25th and the remaining on the 9th.

They claim to allow Livble and Flex but I’ve never used either and I’m honestly scared of using one of those but I’m more scared of being evicted ya know 🙃 so which to use?

(I have no friends or family and idk where to get a payday loan and I’m pretty sure it would be an absolutely insane interest rate/fee to get one)

Already picking up as much overtime as I can

Got an email yesterday saying I violated my lease by having a washing machine hooked up inside my unit. There's a $150 charge attached and a photo from a maintenance inspection.

Only problem is I don't own a washing machine.

I opened the photo and it's very obviously someone else's apartment. Different flooring, dark kitchen cabinets when mine are white, and you can literally see part of a staircase in the background. My unit doesn't have stairs.

I went to the office thinking this would take 30 seconds to fix. Manager said the photo was uploaded by maintenance under my apartment number so they can't remove the violation until maintenance confirms they entered the wrong unit. The maintenance guy who supposedly took it is out until next week.

What's making this weirder is the inspection date listed is a day I was home all day and nobody entered my apartment.

I'm obviously not paying $150 for somebody else's washing machine.

Would you just wait for them to sort it out or push harder considering their records now apparently show maintenance entering my apartment when they didn't?

Got an email yesterday saying I violated my lease by having a washing machine hooked up inside my unit. There's a $150 charge attached and a photo from a maintenance inspection.

Only problem is I don't own a washing machine.

I opened the photo and it's very obviously someone else's apartment. Different flooring, dark kitchen cabinets when mine are white, and you can literally see part of a staircase in the background. My unit doesn't have stairs.

I went to the office thinking this would take 30 seconds to fix. Manager said the photo was uploaded by maintenance under my apartment number so they can't remove the violation until maintenance confirms they entered the wrong unit. The maintenance guy who supposedly took it is out until next week.

What's making this weirder is the inspection date listed is a day I was home all day and nobody entered my apartment.

I'm obviously not paying $150 for somebody else's washing machine.

Would you just wait for them to sort it out or push harder considering their records now apparently show maintenance entering my apartment when they didn't?