Update on question I asked about my landlady who rented the home I live in furnished?

Question

I rent the home on a 2 year lease I have 16 months left on my lease. I have never been late on a payment. I rent the home furnished and this was her idea that she leave her furniture in the home so I go rid of a lot of my things. She did tell me a few things she would want, which she already took. She left to go to another state to help take care of a sister who was dying of cancer. The sister died so she came back here and is living rent free in a neighbors home while he is in Florida. He is trying to sell the home and wants someone in it. She told me that everything stays with the house except a few items which were taken by her, now she wants other furniture. She came over and removed a coffee table without my approval. She asked my daughter to bring over a chair and ottoman which was suppose to stay with the house. I was mad. I told her that never again can she come in and remove furn. She was mad but I was madder. I told her she is breaking the lease and she is wrong whos right

Answer 1

U R.

Answer 2

Read the lease and it will tell you who's wrong and who's right. The whole legal basis of your agreement is in the lease.

If the agreement on the furniture was a verbal one, it may be binding in law but it's going to be very hard to prove.

Did you agree an inventory before moving in? This is good renting practice and protects both sides. Without an inventory, neither you nor your landlady can prove what furniture was in the house when you rented it.

If you don't already have an inventory, I suggest you make one yourself, take photos, and ask your landlady over to agree it. You should both sign and date it. You may also want to agree a list of what furniture she has already taken out since you rented the place. This protects you both and is in both your best interests.

May I suggest that, after reading the lease, you write your landlady a calm and polite letter, pointing out your udnerstanding of your agreement with her and saying where the lease supports it? Tell her that if she intends to remove other furniture you would like to agree a list in writing and would then expect an appropriate reduction in the rent.

Forget that she is living rent free now, or why she left the furniture in the first place, and just focus on what has already been agreed and what needs to be agreed for the future about her dealings with you.

Answer 3

Assuming your lease was for a furnished premises, the landlord is TOTALLY in the wrong here. You should demand that she IMMEDIATELY return the items removed from the home. Threaten to take her to small claims court for the cost of any items removed -- and follow through if she does not immediately return the items.

Answer 4

What does it say in the lease agreement? If ALL furniture is included, then you are right.

Answer 5

if it is in the hire that the furn in the home is a factor of the hire then she has no applicable, i'm a landlord and that i've got faith that no count what you haven't any applicable entering into the domicile without the guideline consent.

Answer 6

it all depends on the tearms of the lease...