What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Ohio
My girlfriend and I signed a year lease back in March, and moved in sometime in April, so we've got about six months left on it. We signed a pet addendum and handed it in with the lease, but at the time, nothing was said of a pet fee or pet rent, and they've accepted the rent we've paid them for the past six months. At the time, it seems they were in the process of replacing or relocating the guy running the leasing office (I guess he'd be the property manager?). We had a different property manager for three or four months after that guy, but then she was replaced as well.
Now, almost a month ago we received a notice from the *NEW* property manager, taped to our door, stating that as she's walked the property, she's noticed cats in our window, but that we do not have a pet addendum, nor have we paid pet rent. This is the link to what she wrote: http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/2276/scan0001.gif
Our reply is here: http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8010/scan0002.gif
What we are referring to in the second paragraph is a situation that happened during our first month of living here, when we tried to find out exactly how much we owed, but couldn't get in contact with the property manager(s), due to them not being in the office at the posted times. What happened with this latest notice is that we tried to get to the leasing office on the first day it was open, but the hours had been ninja-changed that week from 9-5 or whatever they were before, to only 9-12. So we just sent this letter instead, as we could tell something was going on, and that we'd need some sort of documentation of it.
So long story short, rent is due in the next few days and we still haven't gotten a response, and the leasing office still has unpredictable hours. And I'm not entirely sure about the legality of nonrefundable deposits in Ohio, but I dunno. We were open to discussion about maybe trying to
Anyway, the point is that they're pretty incompetent. Either they're incompetent and lost their paperwork, or they're trying to scam some money out of us if we were gullible enough to pay the money straight up. And really, I don't know why they'd think we had the money they requested, because we had paid rent three days before. And their inability to respond to our latest letter has us confused about what we owe them. I was wondering if this, along with other evidence of their incompetence, namely:
1. Their inability to fix an improperly weather-sealed door that was reported in the inventory and condition form upon moving in, and was mentioned to both the first and second property manager, and which causes puddles to form on the kitchen floor whenever it rains, warping and raising the tiles.
2. Two times they stated that they would be inspecting buildings for water damage, and that we should expect them at 9 AM, and they never showed. This is mainly an issue because our schedules are shifted -- as in, we sleep during the day and stay up at night. We still go to work and everything responsibly, our schedules are just shifted. Of course when work demands we get up early, we change our schedules accordingly.
3. Roofing work started three to four days before the notice they sent out said it would. It was the loudest thing in the entire world, and we had not been able to plan our sleep schedule around the unannounced, premature work (my girlfriend worked in the afternoon). Not to mention that due to the premature work, we weren't given time to properly move our cars, so there were construction vehicles park halfway on the curb, halfway on the parking lot, tilted like this, along with debris everywhere around people's cars.
4. With no notice given, the front of our building was sprayed down with a pressure washer. We had our windows open and everything.
5. The poor record-keeping of the property managers, and the constant changing of them, which, it's pretty clear, are related.
...would be enough for us to move out and either reduce or eliminate the rest of what is stated under the lease agreement. Because we really doubt the ability of this place, especially with the fragile winter months coming up.
My girlfriend and I signed a year lease back in March, and moved in sometime in April, so we've got about six months left on it. We signed a pet addendum and handed it in with the lease, but at the time, nothing was said of a pet fee or pet rent, and they've accepted the rent we've paid them for the past six months. At the time, it seems they were in the process of replacing or relocating the guy running the leasing office (I guess he'd be the property manager?). We had a different property manager for three or four months after that guy, but then she was replaced as well.
Now, almost a month ago we received a notice from the *NEW* property manager, taped to our door, stating that as she's walked the property, she's noticed cats in our window, but that we do not have a pet addendum, nor have we paid pet rent. This is the link to what she wrote: http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/2276/scan0001.gif
Our reply is here: http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8010/scan0002.gif
What we are referring to in the second paragraph is a situation that happened during our first month of living here, when we tried to find out exactly how much we owed, but couldn't get in contact with the property manager(s), due to them not being in the office at the posted times. What happened with this latest notice is that we tried to get to the leasing office on the first day it was open, but the hours had been ninja-changed that week from 9-5 or whatever they were before, to only 9-12. So we just sent this letter instead, as we could tell something was going on, and that we'd need some sort of documentation of it.
So long story short, rent is due in the next few days and we still haven't gotten a response, and the leasing office still has unpredictable hours. And I'm not entirely sure about the legality of nonrefundable deposits in Ohio, but I dunno. We were open to discussion about maybe trying to
Anyway, the point is that they're pretty incompetent. Either they're incompetent and lost their paperwork, or they're trying to scam some money out of us if we were gullible enough to pay the money straight up. And really, I don't know why they'd think we had the money they requested, because we had paid rent three days before. And their inability to respond to our latest letter has us confused about what we owe them. I was wondering if this, along with other evidence of their incompetence, namely:
1. Their inability to fix an improperly weather-sealed door that was reported in the inventory and condition form upon moving in, and was mentioned to both the first and second property manager, and which causes puddles to form on the kitchen floor whenever it rains, warping and raising the tiles.
2. Two times they stated that they would be inspecting buildings for water damage, and that we should expect them at 9 AM, and they never showed. This is mainly an issue because our schedules are shifted -- as in, we sleep during the day and stay up at night. We still go to work and everything responsibly, our schedules are just shifted. Of course when work demands we get up early, we change our schedules accordingly.
3. Roofing work started three to four days before the notice they sent out said it would. It was the loudest thing in the entire world, and we had not been able to plan our sleep schedule around the unannounced, premature work (my girlfriend worked in the afternoon). Not to mention that due to the premature work, we weren't given time to properly move our cars, so there were construction vehicles park halfway on the curb, halfway on the parking lot, tilted like this, along with debris everywhere around people's cars.
4. With no notice given, the front of our building was sprayed down with a pressure washer. We had our windows open and everything.
5. The poor record-keeping of the property managers, and the constant changing of them, which, it's pretty clear, are related.
...would be enough for us to move out and either reduce or eliminate the rest of what is stated under the lease agreement. Because we really doubt the ability of this place, especially with the fragile winter months coming up.