September 9th, 2005 at 04:18pm Posted by Kathy
Many of you close friends know that we are moving out of our rental house and into an apartment tomorrow. This is to help us save money for the downpayment and closing costs as we are in the process of buying a house next year in Wood Village. The apartments that we are moving into has a deal with Centex Homes that if you rent through Equity Residential they will set aside 20% of your rent towards closing costs.
Well, we have lived in the house for about 2 yrs now. The owner has been very nice to us. We have never been late on a payment and we have kept the place in decent shape. Also, we gave him 6 wks notice of our move. Since he has found out that we are moving it seems upset and very rude towards us. I don’t know what is with him. He already has the place rented and he received our partial payment for the rent this month. We even let him show the place to prospective tenants on three occasions.
On tuesday afternoon, I received a call from him and he wanted to know if he could bring someone over to look at the carpets because they needed to be cleaned. The owner would be here also. I said “sure”. When they arrived the guy had a clipboard and said they will clean everything. After about an hour I told the owner “I was feeling uncomfortable because I felt he didn’t think we would clean the place up when we left”. He said “no, he only wanted a quote for the carpet cleaning”. Then, I receive a call the next day from the owner saying that “he was pretty upset about the way the place looked”. I said “we just got back from vacation, so that is why the lawn was brown and needed to be mowed”. He then said “don’t do any additional repairs on the nail holes because they weren’t up to his standards and he is going to have to fix all the walls now”. If anyone has seen my house knows that there is shabby patchwork on the walls anyway with the drywall and nails showing through. What is up with him and is it legal, what he is doing to us? I feel like he is to the point of harassment. Can he do this legally? Having people coming into the house invading our privacy.
Let me know your suggestions or opinions. He was a nice landlord up until the point that we notified him we were moving.
5 Comments Add your own
1. Justin | September 9th, 2005 at 5:41 pm
What is up with people, well you can always take my approach to things like that, you will be out of there soon and don’t have to worry about it any more, he’s probably just upset that he has to re-rent out the house again.
2. Kathy | September 9th, 2005 at 6:22 pm
But, what bugs me is he already has it rented and we aren’t even out yet. He is not losing any money.
3. rebecca marie | September 11th, 2005 at 9:26 am
hey kathy, check it out here, it may be a good starting point… http://www.osbar.org/public/legalinfo/tenant.html
4. scrapping dani | September 12th, 2005 at 7:44 am
The same thing happened to us when we moved out of a town hose we had rented befprewe moved to Oregon. The guy was SO nice and then about 2 weeks after we arrived in Oregon we got half of our security deposit back. He had a list of stuff that he had to do. I cleaned that place from top to bottom. He charged us for light bulbs and patching up the wall with spackle. He can’t do that, that is normal wear and tear. Since we were in Oregon and he was in Illinois there was nothing we could do about it.
I hope it all works out for you.
How is your place? Are you on the first floor?
5. tabitha jane | September 16th, 2005 at 10:06 am
sounds like a real jerk to me. i’ve met some crappy people in real estate and rental housing . . . they just want to make money. and they make a lot of it in moving out and in costs.
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