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12-01-2007, 01:20 PM
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| |  Would the Lease be considered N&V?.....
What is the name of your state? Tennessee
We have lived in this apartment complex since July 2005. We have a dog & a cat. I signed a new 1 year lease, with the secretary... NOT the apartment manager, in August. At that time, I asked where the paperwork on the pets were and was told that it was all in our file and that the lease I was signing was "All Inclusive", which I took to mean that the pet rent was included. I was paying the same amount I had paid the previous year.
I get notice, on my doorjamb, that our November pet rent ($20) has not been paid. Well, I have paid the rent that was stated in our lease for the last 4 months... which we are NOW being told included our rent INCREASE, not the pet rent fee.
At no point during the signing of the lease OR at any point over the last 4 months has anyone mentioned that there was a rent increase or that the pet rent was separate until this notification.
Could the lease be considered Null & Void since there was no notification whatsoever of a rent increase?
Although this seems to be such a small matter ($20), this is but another problem we have had with this apartment complex. Between the HUGE turnover of staff (5 maintenance members, 8 secretaries and 2 apartment managers since July 2005), invasion of property without notification and miscellanous fees, I would like nothing better than to get out of this lease before my husband leaves for Afghanistan.  |
12-01-2007, 03:52 PM
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| | | Your lease is not void, but you are also not obligated to pay anything more then the amount stated in the contract you signed. If they want to raise your rent, they will have to wait until the lease expires. |
12-01-2007, 11:09 PM
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| | Two questions you might want to ponder:
1. Does your lease show that you have pets in your apartment?
2. Does your lease have a clause for pets living in the apartment?
If you can tell me those things, I could probally better answer! 
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12-02-2007, 09:46 AM
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by ncpropmgr  Two questions you might want to ponder:
1. Does your lease show that you have pets in your apartment?
2. Does your lease have a clause for pets living in the apartment?
If you can tell me those things, I could probally better answer! | This new lease that was signed doesn't have anything in it about the pets we have. The only thing in this new lease is it states, 'No Pets.'
When asking the apartment manager about this, she said they took the pets out of the lease so that, IF you got rid of the animal, you no longer had to pay rent for the animal. I thought that sounded kind of weird.
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12-02-2007, 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by HonuDeila What is the name of your state? Tennessee
We have lived in this apartment complex since July 2005. We have a dog & a cat. I signed a new 1 year lease, with the secretary... NOT the apartment manager, in August. At that time, I asked where the paperwork on the pets were and was told that it was all in our file and that the lease I was signing was "All Inclusive", which I took to mean that the pet rent was included. I was paying the same amount I had paid the previous year.
I get notice, on my doorjamb, that our November pet rent ($20) has not been paid. Well, I have paid the rent that was stated in our lease for the last 4 months... which we are NOW being told included our rent INCREASE, not the pet rent fee.
At no point during the signing of the lease OR at any point over the last 4 months has anyone mentioned that there was a rent increase or that the pet rent was separate until this notification.
Could the lease be considered Null & Void since there was no notification whatsoever of a rent increase?
Although this seems to be such a small matter ($20), this is but another problem we have had with this apartment complex. Between the HUGE turnover of staff (5 maintenance members, 8 secretaries and 2 apartment managers since July 2005), invasion of property without notification and miscellanous fees, I would like nothing better than to get out of this lease before my husband leaves for Afghanistan. | If no increase was stated in the new lease then you do not owe anything.
If your husband is being deployed you will be able to break the lease anyway with no penaly.
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