if you are a property manager and you work for rent and you get fired if they give you a 3 day vacate ?

Question

ok I got fired from a manager position , then I got a 3 day pay or vacate.
Will this hold up in court?

There is something else I forgot to add I do not have a lease with my former employer.
Im in Wash. state as well.

Answer 1

As a property manager, you should know the answer to this question...It is all a matter of a "written agreement". I would assume that the management company had you sign a lease or a written agreement. Some give you 3 days, some give you 15 days, it all depends on the management company's policy. If there was no written agreement, then yes they can require you to pay up or move out with a 3 day notice. Some management companies do not allow you the option of staying, they consider it a conflict of interest.

Answer 2

Ok so you were the property manager. You got free rent for being the property manager. They fired you from the property manager position and now want you to either start paying rent or vacate. I hope that is right.

I guess the obvious question is, how was the agreement handled. If it was a verbal agreement while your lease (where it stipulated rent to be paid) surely was not, then yes it will hold up in court. Likewise if you had one written agreement for the property manager part and one for the lease I suspect it will hold up in court also. Still, in this case you'd better check the written agreements carefully and see if there is anything you can use - but I doubt it. These agreements are typically written to protect the landlord/ employer, not you.

If, however, you had a lease and as part of the lease it said you would be property manager and get free rent for this. Check this lease very carefully, and see what it says about being terminated from the property manager position. If it does not spell out what happens then possibly you have some recourse. I mean you didn't break the lease and the lease says you get free rent. Still I suspect this will have some clause on what happens if you do get fired - just check this carefully.

Bottom line, check your agreements on how these functions would be handled for any holes in them. If you had no written agreement on the property manager position you are probably out of luck. Only if they were sloppy enough to write in a lease (or other agreement) that you'd be property manager and did not also include what happened if you were fired - then and only then you may have some recourse.

Answer 3

Call the police. I think it against the law for them to do that. They have to give you 30 days notice. Even the police don't want people on the street. So it's only fair to give 30 days notice. I say this because I let a friend pay minimal rent (her utilites) and when I wanted her out, I had to give her 30 days notice.... but even if it is the law, you may be out of luck if it is not enforced properly.

Get outta there as fast as possible and tell us what crappy apartment did that so we can not rent there ever@!@!

Answer 4

Sure! Now that you're no longer receiving your housing as pay for your service you're just an ordinary tenant. As such you must start paying rent.

Answer 5

What does your lease say? Whatever it says is what will be accepted in court.

Answer 6

If you are going to stay there, you have to pay.