Is there anybody out there?

[MysteriousOne]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I beg... can someone help me find information on Mississippi Rental Laws? I have continuously searched and searched... NO SUCH LUCK.

Also ... is the ex LL's allowed to call your work and tell your "co-workers" what is going on, ( husband is in service) as well as contact our friends????

I have been told a few different things on this today and am completely baffled with the whole situation. It doesnt make it any better that we are not from here and no nothing about this state.

Thank you.

Bethany

 

[LL]

You may be able to find information about Mississippi laws by clicking on the tab labeled State Resources at the top of this page.

As for the ex-landlord contacting your co-workers in the military: If he contacts someone above your husband, in his chain of command including his commanding officer, about an unpaid debt or other behavior that reflects badly on the service, then Yes he is not only able to do it, but encouraged to do so, and the commanding officer will take prompt and effective action. Just watch.

I own apartments near an Air Force base where I also have close personal connections. I offer my apartments to service personnel, and it has been a very mutually satisfactory arrangement. They have been happy to obtain apartments such as I offer, and I have been universally pleased with military people as tenants. Even though most of the personnel at our base are officers, I have rented also to enlisted people, and my judgement is still the same. I get paid strictly on time, I get great response to any request I make (and I do the same) and my units have always been left in tip-top condition when the tenants leave. I am very aware of the power I have to address complaints to the commanding officer, but I have never had to use it.

Our military people get this respect because their behavior deserves it. The commanding officers are very well aware that the housing opportunities for their people and also morale while they are far from home depend on the respect of the American people, including local merchants and housing providers. Anyone who breaks the chain of respect is disciplined.

If your ex-landlord contacted other co-workers instead of going to the command structure, then he really doesn't know how to operate. That's very unprofessional. It may not be against the law.

 

[MysteriousOne]

LL,

Thank you for your response. I completely understand the respectiveness of what you are saying. My husband and I have been nothing but polite. One month, the ex LL did not cash our rent check and then she ended up having to have surgery. They held the rent check for over 3 months and we were getting nervous about that. But since she just had open heart surgery, we didnt open our mouths. When they asked us to do something (or not to do) it was done in a snap of a finger. This was our first HOUSE together and now I am skeptical of getting another because of all the problems. They would not get anything fixed while we were there and so forth the story goes. We showed no disrespect to them or their property, well not intentional anyhow. I understand them being able to go to my husbands CO about all this, BUT.........
they have no documentation of ANYTHING. There was no lease signed no rental agreement.... the only thing they asked was if anything went wrong in house... to call and they would get the maintenance man to fix it. Might I add that he never showed anytime. The only thing we signed our names to were the rent checks.

Thank you for advising that states resources link, but I have tried. It will not bring up the page I need to look at. I have contacted the customer assistance on that link and they are trying to help me fix the problem. HEH they have sent it up to the main corporation about all the problems I am having with that link.


Bethany

 

[LL]

It's not only they who have no documentation. You don't have any documentation either.

I would suggest that you leave and find another place to live where you will be happier. After you move, write a letter to your base housing office about your experience with this landlord. Be scrupulously honest in what you say, but include your recommendation as to whether service people on your base are advised to look to this landlord for housing. Remember that the landlord will have an opportunity to respond.

 

[MysteriousOne]

LL,

once again, thank you. i will definately have to check out writing a letter like that! i really do appreciate your time.

Bethany