i moved into an apt.and was not able to inspect it prior because the tenant late moving out?

Question

i had given my notice so i needed to vacate my apt. there was no time to clean her apt. and.......DAMN..........it was ........NASTY..... her dogs had messed on the carpet the toilet was black & moldy the kitchen floor need to be replaced and the the upstairs apt. floor squeeks . the landlord keeps leaving notes telling me my plants are in the walk way and to remove them. they are not in the way!!! last week the guy on the 2nd floor yelled out "get these g__damn plants out of here. the neighbors are unfriendly no one speaks to each other and i have never felt so unwanted in a place in my life. i cannot even consider staying a year being so unhappy with my home . how can i break my lease so that i can go somewhere where people are normal.

Answer 1

It sounds like you need to get your plants out of a public walkway. It doesn't matter if you think they are in the way or not, just that it isn't your area. If you signed a lease, your options for leaving are limited.

If the apartment is really nasty, you could threaten to call the health board, and ask to be released from your lease in exchange for not calling.

I would try just to ask if you can be let out before threatening anything. Your only other option would be to pay your penalty.

Answer 2

I wish I had an answer but can only say I too have been thru this.
We moved into an apartment in Dec. within 3 days the landlord was complaining out stuff on the porch. There was nothing in the lease about this. It is my private porch no one else uses it. The next thing he complained about was how much trash we put into the dumpster. We pay extra for trash removal I figure I will use it all I want. There is no making this guy happy and it sounds like you won't make your landlord happy either. We have been here 7 weeks and have not had one neighbor as much as smile at us.
I would suggest that you clean the nasty apartment, I have to wonder how you missed the black, moldy toilet and the kitchen floor needing to be replaced BUT I also wonder how I missed that the toilet in my apartment felt like it would fall thru the floor whenever one sat on it!!
So, clean what you can, ask the landlord in writting to repair or replace whatever you cannot clean. Keep your personal items inside your apartment, smile politely at your rude neighbors and bite the bullet until the lease is up unless you can convince the landlord to let you out early. Just ask him, he might be willing to let you go. My landlord is probably jumping for joy that I have given my 30 day notice already.

Answer 3

This happened to me too! The girl living there had the electricity turned off, so I couldn't tell just how nasty it was until after I had the electricty turned on to move in. It took days and several friends to clean it. I asked the apartment manager for a discount on the first month's rent, and he took about $100 off, figuring that would be what professional cleaners would have charged.

Check with your state's housing board--in my state, you can't get out of a lease at all unless your landlord had a penalty listed in the lease (like, paying two months extra rent to get out).

I hate mean neighbors too, can't wait to be able to afford a house!