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My daughter serves in the Marine Corps Reserves and also attends college. She was paying for her apartment every month (on time) while out for the semester during both non-military and military reserve time. Yesterday she went to renew her lease and was told that her room had been "pre-leased" to someone else. Today when we spoke with the property manager, the property manager stated that my daughter needed to have renewed the lease by 4/31. I asked if she had notified daughter in any way to let her know this. She admitted that she did not call daughter, but had put up "flyers" around the apt complex. We reminded her that my daughter was not at the complex during the times these alleged flyers were up and property mgr admitted they did not contact daughter on any of the contact numbers listed nor did they call me, the guarantor listed on the apt. During the conversation, the property mgr asked "is there a chance that she will get transferred to someplace else or sent to Iraq" because she didn't "want to lose renting the room to someone who would potentially be here the full lease year". I asked her to be very careful and sure about what she was saying because it was my belief that she should not be basing my daughter's military service against her in determining whether or not she was going to honor the lease agreement my daughter has as well as allow my daughter to renew. We had a long discussion about my concerns about her statement. She said that the military service "wouldn't be the only thing" and that she would still call around to see if any of the people she "pre-leased" apartments to would be willing to move into a smaller room and allow my daughter to remain in the room she has been leasing for two years. She also stated that the room had not been assigned to anyone yet, but refused to allow my daughter to sign a renewal lease so that we would have something in writing acknowleding my daughter's intent to remain in the apt in the same room as opposed to moving all of her furniture to a smaller room in the apt. The other two rooms in the apt are vacant, so we suggested that she offer the smaller rooms to someone that had not shown up yet and was not already living in the apt. Again, she said referencing my daughter's potential for deployment was not discrimination. I disagree. What can we do?
My daughter serves in the Marine Corps Reserves and also attends college. She was paying for her apartment every month (on time) while out for the semester during both non-military and military reserve time. Yesterday she went to renew her lease and was told that her room had been "pre-leased" to someone else. Today when we spoke with the property manager, the property manager stated that my daughter needed to have renewed the lease by 4/31. I asked if she had notified daughter in any way to let her know this. She admitted that she did not call daughter, but had put up "flyers" around the apt complex. We reminded her that my daughter was not at the complex during the times these alleged flyers were up and property mgr admitted they did not contact daughter on any of the contact numbers listed nor did they call me, the guarantor listed on the apt. During the conversation, the property mgr asked "is there a chance that she will get transferred to someplace else or sent to Iraq" because she didn't "want to lose renting the room to someone who would potentially be here the full lease year". I asked her to be very careful and sure about what she was saying because it was my belief that she should not be basing my daughter's military service against her in determining whether or not she was going to honor the lease agreement my daughter has as well as allow my daughter to renew. We had a long discussion about my concerns about her statement. She said that the military service "wouldn't be the only thing" and that she would still call around to see if any of the people she "pre-leased" apartments to would be willing to move into a smaller room and allow my daughter to remain in the room she has been leasing for two years. She also stated that the room had not been assigned to anyone yet, but refused to allow my daughter to sign a renewal lease so that we would have something in writing acknowleding my daughter's intent to remain in the apt in the same room as opposed to moving all of her furniture to a smaller room in the apt. The other two rooms in the apt are vacant, so we suggested that she offer the smaller rooms to someone that had not shown up yet and was not already living in the apt. Again, she said referencing my daughter's potential for deployment was not discrimination. I disagree. What can we do?