My apartment complex is trying to collect a full month's rent because I gave a 30 day notice instead of a 60 day notice as stated in my lease contract. I signed a 12 month lease and stayed a full 12 months. I did not break my lease. Can they do this to me? Who can I contact for legal advice or where can I look onlne to get evidence that this act is unethical? I live in the state of Texas.
2007-08-06 12:42:20 · 6 answers · asked by tdickers1 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
You are only required to pay the amount of time you inhabited the space.
2007-08-06 12:46:00 · answer #1 · answered by Venita Peyton 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course they can! Your lease requires 60 days notice. You signed the lease with full knowledge of the terms so you don't have a leg to stand on. Unless state law stipulates a lesser maximum notice -- and TX does not -- you must abide by the terms of the lease. If you do not, you will pay the consequences, quite literally in this case.
2007-08-06 12:48:28 · answer #2 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The act is not only NOT unethical, but is legal, if you signed your lease and a condition of that lease was a sixty day notice to vacate the premises.
When you do not give notice to vacate as specified in the terms of your lease, your landlord is entitled to assume that you will continue tenancy past the term of your lease on a month-to-month arrangement. Your particular landlord apparently desires two months notice in order to start advertising to fill your vacancy.
You are not going to prevail in this case, if your lease indeed includes a 60 day notice requirement.
2007-08-06 13:00:40 · answer #3 · answered by acermill 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes they can charge you a full month's rent and a reletting fee up to 85% of one month's rent and they could charge you back any special you received. it is a legal binding contract. you have a responsibility as a leaseholder to read and know your responsibilities of that lease. if you read the contract it will likely see that your lease automatically renews without a 60 day written notice. this means that no matter what the "end date" of your lease is, it will renew every month and require a 60 written notice.
2007-08-06 13:39:13 · answer #4 · answered by outofmymind 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
examine your hire which you signed, yet you in all probability might desire to grant 30 days observe. there could be wording in there that asserts something approximately failure to grant 30 days observe will require you to pay the relax term in "modern marketplace hire" for the unit or something. If the residences which you're in run on a month-to-month foundation and tenants pay on the 1st, you will possibly properly be on the hook by means of January (assuming you're actually not in California) to the tip of that month. In maximum places 30 days observe is a minimum of 30 days previous to the subsequent billing era. So giving observe on Dec a million to be out the tip of December is positive; giving observe December 2 by means of December 31 places you on the hook for the time of the tip of January.
2016-10-14 05:31:36 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if that was the stipulation of the contract you signed.
2007-08-06 12:51:08 · answer #6 · answered by HMFan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋