What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? New York (Nassau County, Long Island, private home rental)
My income situation has changed, I must move with my 3 children to a lower rental apartment. In reading my lease, there is no wording noting I have to give 30 or 60 days notice of my move, or that I cannot live out my security, which is what I want to do for the month of December. The lease is not up until Feb 15th.
Here is a little history of my living in the apt. We moved into a house that had been empty for 2 years. When we moved in, the boiler died (from non-use), she had to replace. The house trap (main water line) backed up into our lower bathroom, she had to hire a plumber to snake it out. The pipe in the wall connecting the washing machine to the plumbing in the wall had a whole in it due to her having the 2nd bathroom next to the washer renovated. She didn't know about this until after we moved in and started using the machine and there was water all over the place. Then the refrigerator died (it was about 15 yrs old), I had just gone food shopping and lost about $200 dollars worth of meat and groceries which she refused to reimburse me for (it died in the morning and we hadn't come home until very late that night). It took her 2 days to have it replaced. We had to purchase coolers, ice, buy food daily to eat, then replace the food that had gone bad. Then again the main line backed up on a Saturday night at 10pm, she was out of town, she wouldn't return any of my calls or text messages, so I had to call Root Rooter to come in. They arrived at 11:30 at night and stayed until 3:30 in the morning. Evidently, the first plumber did much of nothing but to temporarily clear a clog. It turns out that the main line had backup going back 20 years or so, old paper towels (black), soap build up in the pipes, etc and they had to do major pumping, they even had to pull the toilet out and pump it out in the opposite direction to clear it. This cost me $700. I deducted it from my rent with a copy of the bill with the company's explanation of why this backup happened (no fault of mine). She refused to pay for this. She showed up unaccounced with her boyfried screaming at me that i had to pay 1/2. Then we had slugs in our family room due to a whole in the foundation in the back of the house, carpenter ants, camel crickets, a ceiling fan broke within a month in my sons room, the dining room ceiling fan was totally unstable. She finally hired her fix it guy to come over and fix everything in the house. He had to replace the ceiling fixture in the dining room because the electrical was extremely dangerous (could have started a fire at anytime), the ceiling fan in my sons room had to be replaced, she had the foundation fixed, called the exterminator. While the work was being done, the electrician had to rewire some things because of incorrect wiring. The night this happened, I had to purchase the light bulbs for the new dining room fixture, when putting them in, the fixture fell out of the ceiling into my arms, I was alone and it was very heavy. I was able to catch it. I called her to let her know that they did not install it properly and she accused me of breaking it. Then she told me that I expected too much of her as a tenant and when my lease was over, I should find a new place. She was screaming and didn't want to listen. I got it back up with the help of my 15yr old son, it is crooked because the base wasn't put in properly. There are still slugs coming into the family room, there are still crickets in the house, etc. We pay all of the utilities in this house, I pay for a landscaper, I paid a plumber to have a hose bib put on the outside of the house so we had outside water to water the grass. I also replaced the decreped kitchen floor when I moved in and had 20plus year old wallpaper removed and the walls painted. I have put well over a month's rent into this house for repairs and improvements. An apartment has literally fallen into my lap that is available on January 1st. I do not want to lose this opportunity, as the rent is quite a bit lower than my current rental and I am sick over the behavior of my current landlord and her verbally abusive boyfriend who eggs her on at any moment escalating every situation.
My income situation has changed, I must move with my 3 children to a lower rental apartment. In reading my lease, there is no wording noting I have to give 30 or 60 days notice of my move, or that I cannot live out my security, which is what I want to do for the month of December. The lease is not up until Feb 15th.
Here is a little history of my living in the apt. We moved into a house that had been empty for 2 years. When we moved in, the boiler died (from non-use), she had to replace. The house trap (main water line) backed up into our lower bathroom, she had to hire a plumber to snake it out. The pipe in the wall connecting the washing machine to the plumbing in the wall had a whole in it due to her having the 2nd bathroom next to the washer renovated. She didn't know about this until after we moved in and started using the machine and there was water all over the place. Then the refrigerator died (it was about 15 yrs old), I had just gone food shopping and lost about $200 dollars worth of meat and groceries which she refused to reimburse me for (it died in the morning and we hadn't come home until very late that night). It took her 2 days to have it replaced. We had to purchase coolers, ice, buy food daily to eat, then replace the food that had gone bad. Then again the main line backed up on a Saturday night at 10pm, she was out of town, she wouldn't return any of my calls or text messages, so I had to call Root Rooter to come in. They arrived at 11:30 at night and stayed until 3:30 in the morning. Evidently, the first plumber did much of nothing but to temporarily clear a clog. It turns out that the main line had backup going back 20 years or so, old paper towels (black), soap build up in the pipes, etc and they had to do major pumping, they even had to pull the toilet out and pump it out in the opposite direction to clear it. This cost me $700. I deducted it from my rent with a copy of the bill with the company's explanation of why this backup happened (no fault of mine). She refused to pay for this. She showed up unaccounced with her boyfried screaming at me that i had to pay 1/2. Then we had slugs in our family room due to a whole in the foundation in the back of the house, carpenter ants, camel crickets, a ceiling fan broke within a month in my sons room, the dining room ceiling fan was totally unstable. She finally hired her fix it guy to come over and fix everything in the house. He had to replace the ceiling fixture in the dining room because the electrical was extremely dangerous (could have started a fire at anytime), the ceiling fan in my sons room had to be replaced, she had the foundation fixed, called the exterminator. While the work was being done, the electrician had to rewire some things because of incorrect wiring. The night this happened, I had to purchase the light bulbs for the new dining room fixture, when putting them in, the fixture fell out of the ceiling into my arms, I was alone and it was very heavy. I was able to catch it. I called her to let her know that they did not install it properly and she accused me of breaking it. Then she told me that I expected too much of her as a tenant and when my lease was over, I should find a new place. She was screaming and didn't want to listen. I got it back up with the help of my 15yr old son, it is crooked because the base wasn't put in properly. There are still slugs coming into the family room, there are still crickets in the house, etc. We pay all of the utilities in this house, I pay for a landscaper, I paid a plumber to have a hose bib put on the outside of the house so we had outside water to water the grass. I also replaced the decreped kitchen floor when I moved in and had 20plus year old wallpaper removed and the walls painted. I have put well over a month's rent into this house for repairs and improvements. An apartment has literally fallen into my lap that is available on January 1st. I do not want to lose this opportunity, as the rent is quite a bit lower than my current rental and I am sick over the behavior of my current landlord and her verbally abusive boyfriend who eggs her on at any moment escalating every situation.