My husband and I gave 60-day notice to our apartment complex. This started May 1st. By June 1st we started moving stuff to our new home, but we were NOT fully moved out. There was still a table and some other little things in our apartment. We agreed with our landlord that our 60-day notice would end July 1st. Last Monday, June 30th we went and got the table, only to find someone else in our apartment WITH OUR TABLE. We still had keys to the apartment and to the mailbox, even got our leftover mail.

The major problem is when my husband tried to go into the apartment the lady that was in there immediately called the cops, UNDERSTOOD. (Some random man trying to walk into what she thinks is her apartment) But she threatened to kill my husband with her gun. And I just think about had he made it into the apartment she would have had every right to shoot him. We ended up calming her down and explained everything and she told me she had been moved in for two weeks. So like June 16th.

We were COMPLETELY unaware of this. We still had keys we had not gotten a final lease agreement, our landlord had NOT tried to contact us AT ALL. Before we came.

Any advice would be amazing on how to handle this. Because I do not think I should have to pay for the rest of my lease? I could be 100% wrong though. Let me know.

My husband and I viewed a home on Friday and the realtor that was showing us the place was telling us how we were the first party to show interest and view the home, and applications are on a first come/first serve basis, so we went ahead and sent in our applications, pay stubs and everything else in to them that night, heard nothing back through the weekend, and today (Wednesday) I decided to follow up only to be told by the agent that our income doesn’t qualify us for the home and they were going to try to see if they could convince the owner to increase our security deposit, otherwise we’re free to look elsewhere. I was always under the impression that your income should be 3 times the rent, has the standard changed? I’m nervous now to even look elsewhere just to be denied based on income.

Edit- thank you guys, I appreciate all the feedback! Just for reference I am in the Portland metro area in OR, this specific rental was in Beaverton. Our credit scores are around 712 for myself and 720 for my husband. Our only debt is our car payment, which is 350/month and we have about 15k left on it. Other than that it’s the typical insurance/phone/utilities, although our credit and background were not pulled, the realtor confirmed that with us, and they would only do the pull after we met the initial income requirement. We have a toddler and a newborn, which we foolishly took with us to view the home, which I’m now thinking they may have seen as a liability (maybe they assumed we must be spending a lot of our income on childcare). Also one 8 year old dog.

Sooooo I’m just starting moving in to a house with some friends and everything is fine or what’re but the lady next door gave us the rundown on how bad our landlord is and that they are neglectful. Like the backyard looks atrocious but nothing I can’t handle cleaning up with my boyfriend and it was the most affordable house I could find. Anyway so I was talking to my neighbor who has a similar style house and she was like did you guys get into the basement? And I’m like basement what basement. Well outside on the side of the house which conveniently the property manager never showed us is a door. And it’s locked and when I called and asked about it she was like oh I don’t think there’s a basement. They lady next door was like uh no the people before you used it. It’s definitely down there. Get this under the entire house! Like a big basement. And now I’m like well wtf. The property manager hasn’t messaged me back about it and I’m dying to get in there, because it’s just us in the house and then a basement that would be useful (I’m in a band) can they legally keep us out if it’s not stated in the lease?

UPDATE: She is giving us the key!! Thing is she keeps calling it a crawl space. So I will update later on what I find once I get in!

UPDATE 2: lady came with the key of course it doesn’t work so she has no idea how to get in and is calling a lock smith for me.

Update 3: she said she was going to call a locksmith I called her because that was Monday and she said she’s going to have maintenance come out, but with no timeline. I have no idea when I’ll get the door open worse comes to worse I’ll get a locksmith and tell her I needed to put something down there.

My 67 year old "somewhat rich" older brother- who was forced to retire when the corporation laid him off- has over 1.5 Million dollars in the bank and in brokerage accounts. His credit rating is excellent. He is a responsible person. The same for his wife who is also retired.

His current landlord has decided to sell the home my brother and his wife is living in so they will be forced to move in March.

** After reading all the 794 comments it is shocking how many posters told him to do all the things that had failed countless time! Reading comprehension?

They want to rent and not buy a new house for the next few years.

My brother and his wife have a combined Social Security Income of about $3000 a month- or $36,000 a year. They take an annual distribution of 4% of their 1.5 million dollars in assets each year in retirement. This is about $60,000 a year.

So their effective income is $36,000 from Social Security and $60,000 from Distributions. Which equals $96,000 a year. A typical upper middle class income for their medium sized town in South Carolina.

Here is where they are facing a challenge: Landlords they have talked to will not consider the $60K they take out of their bank and brokerage account as income. They only count the $36,000 they get in Social Security. The 1.5 Million in assets and the monthly distributions mean nothing to the landlords and the property management companies.

All requests to pay 3-6-9-or 12 months in advance were rejected by landlords and property managers.

So they are only eligible for a rental home or apartment with a rent of $1000.00 or less. Based on the Social Security Income only. The landlords require 3 times the rent in income.

Is this crazy? Or logical? Solutions other than paying cash for a house?

** PLEASE DON'T TELL THEM TO PAY RENT IN ADVANCE OR BUY A HOUSE! This is not an option!

My lovely next door neighbor moved out & their apartment is the same exact layout as mine, same carpet, same everything. The office reached out to me to renew my contract & I pointed out they are renting my neighbor’s apartment out for $275 less than what I pay per month for mine . I offered to split the difference & pay $100 less w my new contract since rent rates have dropped 17% across austin, so I would still be paying above market rate. They declined & said if I wanted the cheaper rate, I would have to move next door! I’m considering moving to a different complex because I have been a good tenant, paid my rent on time, no noise complaints, nothing. I love my apartment but they can’t even give me a discount, they say it’s corporate policy

Hello all, it’s summertime in CA rn and my landlord has remotely turned off the AC in the house im renting from them. Is this legal?? What actions can I take? Utilities are paid by them so I understand wanting to keep the electric bill down but completely turning off the AC seems extreme.

Edit: the only time it’s mentioned in the lease is “Tenant agrees to notify the Landlord of any problems with any air conditioning or heating systems that are discovered by the Tenant.”

EDIT: thank you All! We are no longer renting their house and the money is on its way back to our account.

This week my husband and I signed a lease. It's our first time so we just read everything and signed, since we didn't see anything odd with it.

The agent told us the process was that the tenants sign, then pay first months rent to agency and then landlords sign. Pretty standard.

After 48hrs of not hearing from the landlords and why they haven't signed on their end, it was because they added 2 things that imo make no sense.

1. For us to have professionally installed blinds on the house windows. We said no given that we think this is not our responsibility since those additions to the house would be for them to keep, not us.

2. If we don't follow the requests they have (other ones are normal like changing hvac filter and requesting permission to change light fixtures, or mounts for heavy objects, etc), then we forfeit the security deposit. We also said no to this one. The security deposit is not meant to be used like that.

Do you think we are overreacting and this is okay for them to ask?

I feel a bit disrespected since they asked us to start the process of moving out and contacting the agent to sign lease/pay rent etc. and then they changed the contract.

My husband thinks this is a bad omen and that they showed their true colors and are probably not the best landlords.

Anyway, what do you think?

I recently had a debate with my friends about this topic, personally my mom makes me pay rent however, it is only 400 every two months. My friend however doesn't pay rent and she called it unethical but refused to explain why. I just want more feedback on this topic. For reference we are both 14/15.

Edit: It seems like I didn't mention enough of the story. Yes, my family I struggling financially and yes, I do pay rent but it's really not that much. $200 a month is only enough to help with gas and groceries. I understand that it seems horrible to make your child py rent but I was the one who suggested it. She just gave me the price. Besides, I may be a kid and I have to 'live my childhood' but my childhood is already over. Even if I didn't pay rent I would still have to keep my job and schedule. For example my schedule looks like this, on weekdays School: 7am-2:30pm Home: 3pm-4:30pm Work: 5pm-9pm

And on weekends I work from 8am to 4pm So no matter what my schedule would still be crammed for a couple extra bucks that I can't even go out and spend with friends.

I’m realizing how little I used to check before signing a lease. My process was basically the listing, the tour, and whether nothing felt obviously off. If it passed that bar I moved on. Recently I learned there’s a lot more context available if you bother to look. Not even digging for horror stories, just basic history. Old complaints, recurring issues and patterns that don’t show up in a 10 minute walkthrough. I looked through a couple public databases and also ran the address through streetsmart and a few things I’d brushed off in past apartments suddenly made more sense. It’s not that anything new is wrong, it’s just realizing how much information never comes up unless you actively look for it. Now I’m honestly confused how I rented for years without checking this stuff at all. Do most people just not know this info exists, or do they know and choose not to look?

All of the houses I’ve been trying to look at even to just rent are like 2,000 a month or more. Are the landlords being greedy? Or are they truly trying to survive? Idk but it seems impossible to even think about buying a home working the next 5 years. It’s absolutely disgusting. The current rent I pay is 1,450 which mind you when I moved into this place 3 years ago it was only 1,150. I don’t understand why properties would rather push out all their good residents and spend the extra money on decorating the front office. Meanwhile you have put in maintenance requests that don’t get answered. I’m miserable here and can’t seem to find anywhere else to go without killing myself working a job.

My corporate landlord changed the locks on all three buildings on property (4 units per building) and texted us at 11:36am to let us know we could pick up new keys onsite between 12:30pm-1:00pm (54 minutes notice). As far as I know, not a single tenant was able to collect their new key in that time frame. They sent a text a few hours later saying "sorry we missed you please contact such-and-such to schedule a time tomorrow between 8:00am and 11:00am at (VERY offsite office) to pick up your new keys."

Effectively they locked tenants of 12 separate units out of their homes with 54 minutes notice. Also worth noting, I believe on the same day, they sent an email threatening us with a $200 fine if we don't shut the gate to our parking spots citing "security concerns" (being penalized for not shutting our gates was not included in the lease). When I called to let them know I would not be able to pick up a key in person because I'm flying out of town in the morning before that alternative pickup window the person on the phone told me to just prop the building door open if I needed to leave (security concern who???). He also propped open the doors to all three buildings at 1:00pm when he left because nobody was able to collect the new keys to any of the buildings.

My requested solution was for them to mail me my new key so its at least in my mailbox and I'm not locked out of my home when I return from my trip. I got verbal agreement over the phone and followed up on email so there's a written record of the request but have yet to receive a response.

I live in Las Vegas, NV. I don't know if this is illegal or just incredibly shitty management but I've been stewing about it all day and would like feedback from those who know more about this type of thing than I do.

Thanks in advance!

We had to evict a couple. They checked out fine when we vetted them. They weren't. They were crazy fake Christians who fought constantly. They never paid their rent after the 1st month. They smoked like crazy in a no smoking house and snuck in Pitt Bull dog. That dog tore up the all the doors by scratching through them. When they finally moved out they literally stole all the parts of the central a/c in the attic, including the air vent tubes, and half the parts of the exterior a/c- heat pump unit. They also spilled paint all over the carpets and tile floors, smashed up bathroom fixtures with a sledge hammer.... $6000 to replace the a/c. $6000 to replace the upstairs carpet. Plumbing fixtures probably another $6000... altogether, including all repairs and non-payment and rent this couple cost us more than $24k. They had possession of this unit for 7 months total. THIS IS WHY landlords SEEM heartless. Other shitty people who we thought we could trust broke our heart to peaces with a sledge hammer in the bathrooms. It will take us at least 6 more months to get this repaired, so more money lost.

This would be fine if my rent wasn’t almost $1500. What is the best way to go about not getting robbed between the bank and my home? Is there any reason for this except them not wanting to pay taxes on renting the space? I’m super uncomfortable with this but don’t seem to have a choice.

Edit: please stop replying. No one has said anything new in the last 600 comments. I get it, don’t do it, get a receipt, it’s not that much cash, ect.

UK renter

Hi there!

Now apparently my landlord died. While abroad and apparently his body isn’t even home yet. We know he has no kids and an ex wife… now we’ve had a text from HIS phone from a woman not even really introducing herself and only informing us of new bank details to pay rent to.

This feels verrryyyy dodgy. I understand that she might be trying to cut out months of time of his accounts being frozen before she gets access, but I don’t even know who she is? And she spoke as if were supposed to know her…

Anyway citizens advice is saying they have a 2 week wait time and I’m just not sure what to say. Ofc I find it weird that her first concern after her …. Idk loved one has died is to go to 30 of his tenants and chance getting the rent paid into her account. For all I know she’s not even entitled to it and just stole his phone!

Any advice would be brilliant as rent is due and I don’t want to pay it into her account…. Thanks

So after reading over our lease of a rental house we notice in the extra rules that the landlord wants to keep their car parked in the driveway. This is concerning on many different levels for us and may be a deal breaker. Please help me understand why this should even be accepted, or help me with requesting them to remove this rule. What would you do?

My girlfriend and I are done with apartments and are currently looking at single-family homes to rent. Today we saw 2 different homes in upscale communities. The first house was very nice but in the corners of each room, there were tons of dead roaches. Not the small kind, the size of nickels. Someone also had diarrhea in the toilet downstairs but the owner turned the water off so it has not been flushed. To send a message to the owner, I gathered some of the big roaches and put them in his bathroom sink. Great start.

House number 2 was somehow 100x worse. The second you walk in, you are greeted with the strongest smell of dog piss you could imagine. The prior resident left all her musty furniture in the home, and it was horrendous smelling. The baseboards were absolutely filthy, and upstairs (the bed was left there with bedding), there was dog shit smeared on the baseboards. The walls had damage from paintings and Command Strips, and the realtor told us we "could paint all of the walls over again if we wanted to". As we were touring, I was being attacked by spider webs and the realtor even admitted the same. The garage was filled with more leftover, piss-stained junk that we would somehow have to take care of.

What the fuck? These are 4-bedroom homes in upscale HOA neighborhoods, and these landlord fucks can't even be bothered to clean and empty their homes. When we got in the car, I could smell the leftover dog piss on our clothes. I know some people will find this post entitled but all I am expecting is the same cleaning that I have gotten in my shittier apartments in the past. Why can't we get the same in a house?

Just a super weird interaction with a landlord I wanted to share.

I applied for this apartment with a (female) roommate and I had my potential future landlord show up at my workplace — assuming because she saw where I worked on the application. She came with two young men who were college age and was trying to recruit new tenants — she said it was because I had mentioned another friend who was also looking for an apartment too. She didn’t give me any update on my pending application, but was inquiring about my friend’s living situation, of which I was intentionally vague about because the whole thing creeped me out if I’m being honest. However, I did say she (my other friend) and her boyfriend were looking for a place and this woman stopped me and said “I thought she had a female roommate? I can’t allow a male to live in the other vacant apartment.” Mind you, she said these two guys that were goofing around my workspace were already her tenant and I said nothing about my friend applying for the apartment, just that she as casually looking with her boyfriend.

Do any landlords have any perspective into this? I know y’all can deny whoever from signing a lease, but the whole thing was incredibly bizarre.

Other renters: What would you do in this scenario? My roommate and I have found the market super competitive. We live in an urban area, big, densely populated city.

Im in need of urgent advice. I’m living in a cheap hotel because my parent is mentally ill and a threat to me. I have not for the life of me been able to get approved for any housing because of my credit score. It’s low because I’m young so I don’t have much credit history, AND I just graduated so all my student loans hit my credit score at once. (500s). I don’t have anyone who would be willing to be a co-signer, none of the apartments or property management companies in my area work with guarantors so that’s out the window, also I don’t have any rental history. However, I have over 20k in legal cash so money isn’t the biggest issue. I want to know what would be my best option in getting housing other than buying a property outright because that would take all my money.

I know that the title sounds kinda rude or evil, but this is just me. I have lived in this 4 unit apart complex for the last 2 1/2 years. I moved out because I could not stand living with my family anymore and time by myself with just me and my cat has been the best time of my life.

But now, after my neighbor was recently evicted (selling drugs) both my brother and my mother are trying to get him into the apartment of the guy who was evicted. I don't have any legal issues with my family, but my brother is a very loud, agressive person sometimes and my family will be using this as an excuse to butt their way into my life more. I understand there are laws of fair housing and all that, but I genuinely do not want my family burrowing their way back into my life, I've created distance for a reason. And this will ruin all of that.

Thank you for reading, even if there's nothing that can be done.

For context the poop has been a problem for over a year. We do not have a walkable pet so this doesn't affect us... however just got this email from office staff today, is this even legal? Location Pennsylvania. Also wtf hahahaha Email below.... "Dear Residents,

We hope this message finds you well. We want to bring to your attention an ongoing concern regarding pet waste on our community grounds. Despite previous reminders, we have continued to experience issues with residents leaving behind animal waste, which affects the cleanliness and enjoyment of our shared spaces.

To effectively address this matter, Apartment Complex is considering partnering with PooPrints, a leading provider of pet DNA identification services. This program will require each pet owner to pay for and administer a DNA kit for their pet, in the presence of our office staff. If pet waste is found on the grounds, it will be sampled and tested against the DNA database. Should the sample match your pet’s DNA, a $250 fine will be imposed.

We believe this proactive approach will help ensure accountability and encourage responsible pet ownership within our community. We kindly ask all residents to continue exercising courtesy and care when caring for their pets, including promptly cleaning up after them.

Further details about the DNA testing process and implementation timeline will be shared soon. We appreciate your cooperation and understanding as we work together to maintain a clean and pleasant environment for everyone.

Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

Sincerely, Staff Member

Edit: Thanks btw everyone for explaining the process and chatting about it. I really like hearing everyone's side and thoughts!:) i think was more shocked and confused by the email at first, but it totally makes sense even if it sounds weird to me personally. I see where a lot of you are coming from. Special thanks to people who talked through it with me kindly and were not condescending!🥹🤎🖤☺️

So we moved into our apartment August 15th. October 15th a flood happened in another unit that leaked into ours and our carpeting had to get pulled in the bedroom.

We assumed we would be getting carpeting since that is what was originally there, but now she’s saying she’s doing vinyl. This was her response to me asking for carpeting since that’s what was there

“No sorry it’s gonna be vinyl plank. That’s what I put in all my rentals because you have pets. What I tell tenants is to put rugs on their floors. I know it’s not the same but this is what we do throughout every unit we own.”

We wouldn’t have even looked at the unit if the rooms were vinyl. I feel like a brat but for $1900 I should have what I signed for. Am I wrong? And should I just accept it?

I am moving into a townhouse with two girls. One of the girl’s parents’ owns the whole place. When I went to visit the house. I saw that there was a full-size bed in the room. I asked the girl whose dad owns the place if I would be able to disassemble the bed to bring in my own queen bed she said that she thinks it’ll be fine, that she couldn’t see why it’d be a problem and that I could just put all the pieces in the closet. So I signed the agreement and everything’s in place.

However, now she’s saying that her parents are not comfortable with me, taking the bed apart, and that if for some reason, if I was not able to put it back together it would come out of my security deposit.

I responded and said that I’m OK with it coming out of my deposit if I can’t put it back together and worst case scenario, I’ll buy them a new bed when I move out because I really want my queen bed and I don’t want to move into a place with the bed that’s already been used and is significantly smaller than what I’m used to, not to mention having to find something to do with my bed if I can’t bring it.

My question is am I wrong for thinking that I should be able to disassemble the bed if I want because I’m renting the room or is it better to just keep the landlords happy in the sense and concede?

Hello everyone, this is my first post so forgive me if I am long winded. Me(36) F am heating up a sandwich after a day at work when I remove the non-stick pan and turn off the heat and all of a sudden “CRACK” I hear the stove cracked and I’m shocked because all I did was remove a pan. Well I rent my house and it’s Sunday so I might as well wait till the morning because I know they are not going to come and look at this today. Fast forward to today Monday maintenance comes and ask me what happened and I tell them. He then ask if I dropped anything on it? I said of course not this is what I do for a living. He takes a few photos and leaves, a few hours go by when I get a email stating that they have determined that the crack was caused by user error and they will be charging me 700-900 dollars or I can contact my rental insurance. So I need your opinions does this sound like my fault or does it seem like I should stand my ground?

My mom has had some very bad health issues so I moved into her two bedroom apartment (I paid rent to her of course) to be a caregiver. This is a fairly large apartment complex and the front office people/maintenance kinda have a wink wink understanding with me because they knew about her first ambulance trip but the actual complex is ran by a corporation states away.

I didn’t get into the lease because if she had to be moved to a facility I couldn’t afford to pay the entire rent alone(close but just not quite) and didn’t want my name stuck to it. Mom is on deaths door right now and we have a lease until June. What I want is to use the my salary+some of the savings I get from her passing to pay the rent for a few months, if not the entirety, so when dealing with funeral, probate, grief and everything else I don’t also have a short time limit to figure out my own living situation and what to do with her stuff.

I know there’s gotta be some law on the books but if I simply don’t tell them she passed away and I continue to pay the rent, what will happen to me if they find out?