My lease is up and my landlord decided not to renew it because she wants her nephew to move in.
she was definately the landlord from hell. she fixed nothing and when she did she raised the rent 100 dollars. I mean once i had to threaten to take her to court because my toilet was about to fall through the floor and she wouldnt fix it.
anyways. im moving out saturday and i never payed a security deposit and im considering not cleaning the house at all and tear up an old phone book and throw the paper all over the floor as a little payback.
do you think i should do that? :) i mean whats she gonna do? not give me my security deposit back? haha
2007-08-23 17:17:34 · 5 answers · asked by Catherine 3 in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
make a mess but dont break anything that she could possibly sue you for,try to keep the holes kicked in walls to a minimum, and just hope you dont need her as a reference for the next place
2007-08-23 17:25:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
lol she will take you to court because she has evidence of your wrong doing, and you dont. with that in mind, clean up the place, minus the few holes in the walls and be done with her. No point in dragging this out.
BTW if she was so bad why would you want to renew?
Also, I didnt have cable tv for a while and saw a ton of these stories on daytime TV court shows, the tenant usually lost due to lack of evidence and the fact that they stayed at the residence.
In regards to towanda
--Your landlord may increase the tenants rent to compensate for the cost of repairs made to the residence IN SOME STATES. I know that in the state of Texas this is true but is seldom ever put into practice due to the tenants ability to take it to court, usually it isnt worth the trouble to the landlord. Also, i believe the flip-side stipulation is that the tenant has the option of leaving without being penalized. (but the landlord may do the good old I fixed it, k you have 30 days to find another place to live or agree to the new cost of rent).
2007-08-24 00:24:35 · answer #2 · answered by anonomama 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't know what state your in...but here in New York if you purposefully destroy someone elses property...the police come and haul you off in handcuffs for distruction of property. Also she can sue you for not cleaning and any damages. Once that is on your credit report..good luck trying to rent elsewhere with such behavior as your reference.
2007-08-24 13:28:14 · answer #3 · answered by LILL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't lower yourself to her standards. You have to be moving to a better place. Why do you care if she is not renewing your lease if she was a bad landlady?
I wouldn't do anything bad to the place. You never know, it could come back to bite you in the butt.........I wouldn't push it.
Chalk it up to a "learning experience" and move on.
2007-08-24 01:08:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you have a lease, your landlord cannot raise your rent. Your story sounds phoney. . .
2007-08-24 01:56:35 · answer #5 · answered by towanda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋