Devedander
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Not the post about the landlord towing my car
California
My apts get a new manager on an almost anual basis. According to my rental agreement I am allowed on parking space. The entire time I have lived here arrangements have been made whereby some units can use a second space since some units have no cars.
We recently turned over managers, and the managers had a car of mine towed. The car was in poor condition and barely ran, also had expired tags.
The managers upon arriving passed around house rules acommpanied by a request for info on the cars you owned and the spaces they occupied. I filled one out stating all 3 cars and locations.
The previous manager had made a verbal agreement that I may use those spaces, even though I am entitled to only one. It was my impression that at any time he could revoke the extra spaces but nothing was brought up about that at the time, but he did directly say I could use the spaces.
So my problem is that the current managers claim they tried to extend a courtesy and find out whos car it was. In order to do so they say they asked many of the residents and knocked on doors. At the moment about half the apts are empty leaving only a dozen or so apts to ask.
I have lived here 4 years and people know my cars, I asked 3 apts and they said no one askeda bout my car recently.
I asked the managers why the didn't attempt to call me about it, and their response was they were too busy to look through the paper work, however they also informed me that they only got 5 or so of those questionaires back.
There are 3 cars on the property that needed attention in this manner and they didn't hvae time to look through 5 pieces of paper and make 5 phone calls to try and find out whos cares where whoes?
Then after an unpleasant discussion with the property owner it is made clear to me that they are too busy to do that kind of thing (which I know to be untrue empiracly) and that any agreement I had with a previous manager it is my responsibility to bring up with the new managers upon their arrival.
Then the new managers come buy to tell me they don't actually have my paperworkd (after referring to it multiple times as having received it) and ask me to fill out a new one.
My car was towed at noon on thurs, I never saw notice applied to it that it would be towed. I thought some notice had to be applied to the car, I contacted the land owner from work at 3:00 and when I got home noticed 2 other cars had notices timed 3:30... so it appears that when I called the land owner she decided to cover her butt, apply these notices and have the managers "loose" my paperwork so they could say they coudl not contact me.
Now is this all right? I thought a manager represented the apt owner and thus agreements made with him stood until they approached me otherwise?
Also since I am techinically in violation of my written agreement do I have a leg to stand on in court if I sue for impound fees?
Can I bring up negligence if they failed to conatct me and lost my information? (they also say the previous managers took all documentation with them when they left which I think sounds fishy).
If I do choose to persue this legally how will it effect me in terms of renting in the future? Should I just eat the $150 impound fee and deal with it (or hopefully move) or should I try to fight this?
I am the only Chinese tenant in the apts, and I hate to play the race card but I do feel it's possible that the new managers singled me out for this reason as I stated before other cars were still there with notices when mine was not.
The apts i live tend to haev pretty poor clientelle and I think the managers and owner may be used to pushing over people who can't or won't go to court over issues.
Thanks for any help!
California
My apts get a new manager on an almost anual basis. According to my rental agreement I am allowed on parking space. The entire time I have lived here arrangements have been made whereby some units can use a second space since some units have no cars.
We recently turned over managers, and the managers had a car of mine towed. The car was in poor condition and barely ran, also had expired tags.
The managers upon arriving passed around house rules acommpanied by a request for info on the cars you owned and the spaces they occupied. I filled one out stating all 3 cars and locations.
The previous manager had made a verbal agreement that I may use those spaces, even though I am entitled to only one. It was my impression that at any time he could revoke the extra spaces but nothing was brought up about that at the time, but he did directly say I could use the spaces.
So my problem is that the current managers claim they tried to extend a courtesy and find out whos car it was. In order to do so they say they asked many of the residents and knocked on doors. At the moment about half the apts are empty leaving only a dozen or so apts to ask.
I have lived here 4 years and people know my cars, I asked 3 apts and they said no one askeda bout my car recently.
I asked the managers why the didn't attempt to call me about it, and their response was they were too busy to look through the paper work, however they also informed me that they only got 5 or so of those questionaires back.
There are 3 cars on the property that needed attention in this manner and they didn't hvae time to look through 5 pieces of paper and make 5 phone calls to try and find out whos cares where whoes?
Then after an unpleasant discussion with the property owner it is made clear to me that they are too busy to do that kind of thing (which I know to be untrue empiracly) and that any agreement I had with a previous manager it is my responsibility to bring up with the new managers upon their arrival.
Then the new managers come buy to tell me they don't actually have my paperworkd (after referring to it multiple times as having received it) and ask me to fill out a new one.
My car was towed at noon on thurs, I never saw notice applied to it that it would be towed. I thought some notice had to be applied to the car, I contacted the land owner from work at 3:00 and when I got home noticed 2 other cars had notices timed 3:30... so it appears that when I called the land owner she decided to cover her butt, apply these notices and have the managers "loose" my paperwork so they could say they coudl not contact me.
Now is this all right? I thought a manager represented the apt owner and thus agreements made with him stood until they approached me otherwise?
Also since I am techinically in violation of my written agreement do I have a leg to stand on in court if I sue for impound fees?
Can I bring up negligence if they failed to conatct me and lost my information? (they also say the previous managers took all documentation with them when they left which I think sounds fishy).
If I do choose to persue this legally how will it effect me in terms of renting in the future? Should I just eat the $150 impound fee and deal with it (or hopefully move) or should I try to fight this?
I am the only Chinese tenant in the apts, and I hate to play the race card but I do feel it's possible that the new managers singled me out for this reason as I stated before other cars were still there with notices when mine was not.
The apts i live tend to haev pretty poor clientelle and I think the managers and owner may be used to pushing over people who can't or won't go to court over issues.
Thanks for any help!
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