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I moved into my apartment last November. My landlord was SOOOOOOO kind to me. Like genuinely. I was like awesome I made a good choice. As soon as I was settled in after a month I had contacted them about bringing in an animal as an ESA. She was extremely condescending to me because I accidentally used the word “pet”. Since then she has talked down to me as I brought up an issue with buzzing people in (She entered my phone number in wrong it wasn’t my fault) and calling me 4 times to yell at me about bringing my dog into the courtyard area of my building. I looked, there’s nothing in the lease or my animal agreement that prohibits this but why is she watching me like a hawk? I almost said something but I have to choose my battles here. I have been hearing rats in the walls which I mentioned to her and she just told me there’s nothing SHE PERSONALLY can do about it and that it probably was birds on the roof. It’s definitely rats. I have heard the exact same noise. I’m not asking her to do anything about it i’m asking maintenance to maybe look into it. jesus h christ Im so over apartment living I can’t wait to get a house. I’ve just given up giving her a heads up when I have small problems with the building as I feel targeted and I can’t believe how condescending she speaks to me. I have been nothing but a quiet, paying on time, and good tenant that tries very hard to speak nicely to her just to be hit with rudeness. I’m worried that even if I move (my lease is up in may) that i’ll just keep running into the same issue. That is all ❤️

Hi tenants! My name is Jenna and I have been tenant organizing for 4 years in the Hudson Valley, New York. Landlords rely on tenants not knowing their rights in order to take advantage of them and organizing with your neighbors is crucial to getting your issues fixed.

So what's on your minds?

Why would they not replace our batteries bro?? Like what if I don’t have a screwdriver to unscrew the lock. I shouldn’t need a screwdriver, I’m a tenant, that’s supposed to be the "good thing“ about being a tenant. Being a tenant means I don’t have to fix anything, I call my landlord for that

Idk if I’m overreacting to this or not

I'm getting word from BlueSky (through voucher recipients and housing advocates alike) that some housing authorities in the USA are sending out packets to their tenants (both public housing and private sec. 8 vouchers) asking various questions to redetermine eligibility. Reportedly some of these packets are coming on yellow paper. I'm trying to gather if anyone else has gotten them (So far, I haven't yet. I live in a PBV neighborhood in Boston, MA.)

If you've gotten one from your housing authority, please give as many details as you're comfortable giving (Or DM if that feels safer) At the very least, if there's enough compelling evidence to suggest what I'm worrying, I can sound the alarm.

So currently live in ground floor flat but wanting to move due to bad neighbours aka druggies and crack heads

So we moving to maisonette flat next move and I noticed recently it was put up for sale before it got put up for rent

So it was put up for sale in June 2024 for 77k than it got reduced to 74k in August than it was put up for rent for 625 first week of October than they reduced the rent to 585 in December

We applied for it in January went through application passed referencing etc and passed and got move in day

But I'm worried that they secretly just using us and our rent for now til they sell it than eventually kick us out wth section 21 letter

We have a 6 month old and I'll hate to be in that situation with our baby and I want secure long term AST tenancy

But what does this mean cos I go back to the page where they put it up for sale its status says "on hold" I'm having second thoughts about this but we already put our notice in to leave this place we currently in

I saw another house up for rent for 550 which I'm viewing tomoz I explained the situation to the landlord she seems pretty nice over the messages but obviously other people are viewing the house too than she's have to pick who she thinks is right tenant for her so it ain't a possibility

I'm being honest if we get picked for the house I'm seeing tomoz ill choose the house instead of the maisonette just to feel more security knowing they ain't planning on selling and ring the agency up to cancel an to keep the holding deposit to themselves to make up for me wasting their time

But what do you guys think

Hello fellow tenants!

We are excited to announce we will be hosting an AMA with Jenna Goldstein tomorrow, Friday January 31st, at 6:00PM EST.

Jenna is a tenant organizer who works with For The Many, a non-profit organization based in New York. A brief intro from their website:

We are building a grassroots movement of everyday people to transform New York so it works for all of us. For too long, greedy corporations, billionaires, and political elites have rigged our country to work against us. We are coming together across race and age to fight for laws and win elections that put the power back in our hands and create lasting change.

Jenna's work revolves around For The Many's housing campaign to win tenant protections. With that in mind, and for the purposes of this sub, we would like questions to focus on For The Many's housing campaign and Jenna's work as a tenant organizer.

If you're interested in tenant organizing, join us for this AMA tomorrow and post your questions. We are looking forward to Jenna sharing her knowledge and experience!

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Hello,

If I got some rent notice early in the month about a 4% increase for Feb, 2025.

And now I get another notice couple of days ago about a $5 rent increase, does it sound legit? It's explained as: "There was an increase of $4-5 per month due to a mandatory fee by the LAHD that has to be collected monthly from every renter in Los Angeles City."

When I put my original rent in the LA RSO official calculator:

https://housing.lacity.gov/rso-rent-increase-calculator

It indeed says that there are additional fees in addition to the 4% increase, which are:

Monthly RSO & SCEP Surcharges Added to Rent which come together as: $1.61 + $2.83 = $4.72, but it looks like it got rounded up to $5 by the landlord.

So I got few questions here:

1. Are they allowed to round up the fees from $4.72 to $5 in this case? (Keep in mind the landlord kept the 4% rent increase rounded down which I think that's what's expected).
2. If the landlord didn't give a 30 days proper notice (in the first notice early this month) about the additional fees and they only mention it couple of days ago before the new rent in February, can I refuse to pay it until the following month (March)?
3. Does the landlord need to provide some certificate to prove why they want to charge these fees? I think I read somewhere that they do, but wanted to verify.

Thank you.

Justified ? Also , I pay rent 2 weeks early every month typically. Couple months ago around the holidays , something happened with the bank and they only recieved partial payment. I didn’t know this until it was 10 days late.

They didn’t tell me when I was 1 day late they waited 10 days to tell us we were late. And we thought. We paid the whole thing.

Which incurred 50$/day of late fees + 200$ late fee (turbo tenant bullshit)

They waived the 200$ and made us pay 500$ in late fees.

If I had known on the first day it was late it would have been paid in full. If I would have known before that I would have paid it all !

Want to know if it is on the landlord or the tenant when it comes to something like this.

I figured it was my fault. It’s not their responsibility to tell me if I’m late it’s my responsibility to know if the rent is late or paid or what have you. Or am I tripping ?

Previous post linked at the bottom for context. Basically my lease is ending at the end of the month, and my landlord let me know at 11 pm last night that I need to be out by Sunday or they will start taking money out of the security deposit. I tried sending him a letter asking for a written notice, but he told me that because my roommates ended the lease, he doesn't need to give me a notice and that I had been aware of it for a month. However I made it abundantly clear to him that I was planning on staying, even finding people to fill the empty rooms so everyone could make the full rent, however he still refuses to let me renew the lease. His exact words being "I don't have a lease with you an individual. My current lease is with a group of tenants and I have received a notice of intent to discontinue the lease in December (more than a month ago) I have been in contact with you regarding this and have told you the lease would end unless you find eligible applicants to establish a new lease. In summary, it is not the landlord who is ending the lease but the tenants and you have been inform of this since December."
Now despite everything he said, I had two tenants who applied, and was about to have a final one when he let me know he would not be accepting the people who applied.
To this day he has not provided any written notification that I need to vacate the premises by Sunday.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LandlordLove/comments/1icptdj/landlord_notified_me_he_will_not_be_renewing_my/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

To give some background, around 2022 the company that owns my apartments got tired of paying a management company to run their apartments for them, and decided to do it themselves. The company that had been doing it was doing a good job, and so this came as a surprise. After the hand off, their were signs that things were going to go downhill. It started with their websites going down leaving us unable to pay rent, policies being floated that would have been detrimental to the long term tenets, and swaps to different trash services twice in two months.

So it really shouldn't come as a surprise to find out how they deal with complaints. This is a 'luxury' pet friendly apartment complex. Near each apartment is an animal waste station. Over time, these have been emptied less and less, frequently. Last November, it had been about a month between empties, with the bin getting completely full. Then it got worse. Between thanksgiving and the end of January, it was not emptied once. It was overflowing onto the ground, so I wanted to make sure the office new it was an issue.

When telling them, I was assured that they would talk to their trash services, as it was part of their contract. 3 days later, it was still unemptied, so I take a picture, walk back to the office, and point out that this is by the road, every potential renter will drive by and see this, can we get this fixed. They again assure me that they will put it top of the tasks for maintenance to address. Two days after that, I am walking my dog and see this.

They completely removed the bins. Not just one, ALL the pet waste bins are gone except the one they seem to have forgotten way in the back. When I asked them wtf is this, they said they will be replacing them with bigger bins. Nevermind that maybe they should wait to remove the old ones until they actually have the new ones.

Now, they are mad that people are reacting exactly like anyone with an ounce of sense would expect. Because nothing says luxury apartments like smelling the dog shit they want me to carry back into my apartments.

I have been living in my place since december of 2023, and this month all of my roommates moved out and I'm looking for new ones. At the moment I have 3 out of 4 rooms filled. However, my landlord texted me and said that even if I fill the last room he will not be renewing my lease. He told me that my lease ends friday, and I have until sunday to get out of the building. I'm not super knowledgeable on renters rights, but I'm fairly sure I need to be given a longer notice. I live in San Diego CA for reference. I'm also going to be contacting my lawyer first thing tomorrow. Any other advice or help would be much appreciated.

UPDATE: So apparently because all the roommates who moved out ended the lease, the landlord is claiming that he doesn't need to give me a notice as I've known for over a month, even though I've actively been communicating with them about finding new tenants for a new lease. Not sure what to do now.

If you’re apartment hunting and see they provide their own internet, RUN. Most likely, you’re about to get stuck with Dojo Internet, and let me tell you, it’s a nightmare.

Their “100mbps” is a joke—it struggles to stream a Zoom meeting without buffering, and the connection is super unstable. Oh, and if it goes down? Good luck. You’ll be without internet for a week because they have to hire a tech, schedule them, send them to your place, and only then will they fix it.

Hello I am looking for advice, maybe specifically in Portland, Oregon. This is a long read so I apologize in advance. My roommate and I moved into a rental condo at the very end of October. A couple weeks in, we realized our refrigerator seemed to get warm sometimes.

We put a thermometer in the fridge and it was getting to over 50 degrees multiple times a day. Sometimes it was under 40 like it is supposed to be, but not consistently enough to feel safe. I still used the freezer for refrigerated items because I felt that it was fine. Basically we have been trying to get this issue resolved since early November. They have sent the same dude out 3 times to look at our fridge and he did nothing the first 2 times, and the third time left our fridge completely warm.

The Oregon law says we are entitled to damages, but I have no idea what that looks like. I don't know who to talk to or call or if I even actually do have standing. Here are all of the maintenance chats from the past 3 months regarding the fridge. We have been getting by using a mini fridge my roommate had, but its not enough to store food for 2 people and 3 pets.

I think the part that pisses me off the most is that I would have no issue if they brought us a temporary fridge or something but 3 months with no fridge is actually insane. Rent is obviously due on the 1st, so we are hoping to figure out the best plan before then. Thank u so so much!

So I’m applying for an apartments for the first time, one of the questions was what my zodiac sign was… Is this a normal question to be asked for an apartment?

Hello! I’m going through a referencing process to rent a property in London. I was wondering if it’s reasonable that an agency is requesting me to give them bank statements even though I will be paying for a full length of stay. The referencing is also happening after I already paid a holding deposit. I would really appreciate your help 🙏

I've been living in the same household for more than a decade. For the past two years, we've had an increase of rats running loose in the yard and inside the house. I live in a duplex house so I'm not sure if my neighbors on the other half are dealing with the same issue as intense as I am, but the rats have made so many holes in the basement. They've eaten furniture, rugs, soap etc. Then they went up to the first floor where my kitchen is. Around a year ago, I had told the landlord and he came the fix the floor and I thought he was going to replace the sink cabinet because it was rotten and easy for rats to wiggle their way by making holes. He just replaced the counter where the sink is and placed a wood plank under the sink inside. He did nothing more. But now, they've made a lot of holes underneath the sink and they come out at night so when we wake up in the morning all our food is crumbled on the floor. We don't leave food out except for fruits on the table and our little cart where we put pasta or bread on because we don't have much cabinet space to store it there. We put wood planks and this paste and traps to hopefully keep them from making more holes, but it's useless they keep at it. They used to come to the 2nd floor where the bathroom was, so we told the landlord and he fixed the bathroom entirely so they're not in there anymore. I had sent him a message about the rat infestation and that it's becoming a real problem again. I sent him pictures as well so he'd see. All he said was "if you have food out the rats can smell it, you have to put traps and poison down there's nothing I can do." The problem is rats don't just look for food they'll eat anything. He can't expect for one not to have food out in the kitchen. I mean where am I supposed to store the rest of my food? I can't place everything in the fridge that's silly and I don't have much cabinet space. I should be able to leave out fruits for example but I can't. This house is old the walls are rotten they most likely live inside because you can hear them digging and running. I don't know what else to do. Like I mentioned, we've put down poison and traps. We've tried to cover up holes with paste and wood. Nothing seems to work. I live in northern NJ and l've looked into the laws and stuff. Surely this problem is the landlord responsibility is it not?

I'm desperate for advice. If you don't have time for the whole story please leave a quick message with the following:

Have you had personal experience or heard of people close to you having success or unsuccess using the following for smell treatment:

• Ozone machine
• Baking soda
• enzymatic cleaners
• other cleaners
• other dark magic

Try to skim the story and tell me, do you think the landlord is required to fix this situation?

I moved into a new apartment without having stepped foot in my actual unit. Please hear me out before you stop and leave a message like: "There's your mistake yada yada.." This apartment building was by far the best value in the area for the price. My alternatives were spending 30-40% more for 5% better apartment or 5% less for a 20% worse apartment. And I don't claim to be the most experienced, but I've rented two apartments and neither of them allowed tours in occupied apartments and both of them were competitive so people would fill vacancies sight unseen. My recent apartment search I started 4 months early and I witnessed multiple vacancies filled sight unseen. So it seems to me it's relatively standard to rent without seeing your specific unit and therefore I decided to take the chance...

On move-in day I opened the door and the smell immediately hit me. Right away I was worried the whole apartment was tainted, but I tracked it down to one bedroom and immediately shut the door and blocked the vents. I walked down to the managers office minutes later because it was that bad. If I had to guess, there had to be many episodes of cat(s) peeing in the carpet (and/or elsewhere) and little to no attempt to remedy it. Of course the manager knew, but I guess she was waiting to see if I had a problem with it, which obviously I do. She said they would have to replace the carpet because it had already been carpet cleaned. In the weeks following the carpet replacement, the new carpet/glue/whatever smell was so strong I wasn't sure if the cat smell was fixed. I cracked the window with a fan for almost 2 weeks. The glue smell is still strong (looking for advice on this if they botched the carpet replacement with way too much glue or what but it smells bad and idk if it needs to be shampooed or something), but I'm starting to smell the cat undertone again.

I've read stories of people ripping out subfloor and even drywall and I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on what to do or what type of company/person would be good to call to take a look at it. Also I'd like to know if people think this is the landlords responsibility to fix. Personally I think the smell is unlivable and I would think that would be grounds that the landlord has to fix it or the tenant could possibly end the lease.

Hi everyone, just looking for some input from home experts here.

EDIT: By “automatic” I mean, does an analog thermostat evaluate the surrounding temperature and lower/ increase the heat accordingly by itself?

My landlord has removed my thermostat in my basement suite which I am renting, and placed it the boiler room of my suite (which he locked).

His reasoning is that the thermostat (Honeywell Home 24 V White Mercury-Free Mechanical Thermostat) is “automatic” and he said it senses and detects the surrounding environment’s temperature and will adjust the heat accordingly.

The thermostat was originally mounted on a wall near the entranceway of my basement suite, which is colder than the rest of the suite, thus he told me that since this thermostat is “detecting cooler temperatures” it is increasing the heat in my suite too much.

He said he will instead place it in the boiler room because he claims that’s the only other location where he can mount a thermostat and said even though it’s a locked room, I won’t have to worry about needing to access it because it is “automatic” and will “sense” the temperature and adjust accordingly.

Can someone please tell me if the Honeywell 24V thermostat is actually “automatic” and does as he claims or am I being punked here?

Thank you everyone

I feel so fucking depressed about our housing situation. Being renters has changed my personality, I no longer trust people, I no longer talk to my neighbors, I am ALWAYS on edge waiting for the other shoe to drop and I know I’m not the wonderful parent I could be bc I’m always racked with anxiety about our fucking housing. We’ve rented for 20+ yrs in California, this is not the life I wanted. I expected to finish college, buy a house, start a family- I did everything I was suppose to do and yet we have never qualified for a home loan. Idk if it’s racism, idk if it’s bc we are self employed, maybe we’re just unlucky but we’ve paid someone else’s mortgage PLUS EXTRA for the last 20 yrs and the bank says we can’t afford a mortgage. Brokers tell us to claim higher income taxes, so we do (we pay a fuckton of taxes) and we STILL can’t get qualified.

We are nomadic, floating from house to house every few years. We don’t get evicted, we are victims of circumstance; mostly owners claiming to move back into the property so they can kick us out and raise the rent beyond what the state would allow for a tenant. If I informed the school district every time we moved I think my kids would have attended just about every school in the district- how is that healthy for them? How is this life considered “stable housing” when we are always 30 days from losing it?

We got notice that current LL will not be renewing our lease bc we had 3 NSF returns over the past 2 yrs. And I KNOW someone is going to immediately jump on me and say it’s my fault but hear me out: 1. They require automatic deductions for rent. 2. BoA randomly holds deposits and rearranges charges (yes, I’m switching banks but that doesn’t change the past). 3. LL changes the charges every month by several hundred dollars, at least 2 of those NSF were because I didn’t know they were going to charge $300 extra and 4. We’ve IMMEDIATELY paid the charge PLUS all the fees associated. We are not, and have never been, behind on rent. Truth be told, this place is awful and we were planing on leaving anyways but having that backup plan removed really ramps up the anxiety. So we’ve been looking at new places and every place is even worse than this one. They claim 1500sq ft, you show up and can touch all 4 walls from one spot, ridiculous qualifications (including LL requiring a tour of your current place!) for a place that hasn’t been remodeled since the 1970s. We finally find a place that would work and bonus it has solar, literally NEVER seen that in a rental eventho it should be a requirement IMO. So I turn in the application and they immediately reject it bc I said I have a bird (I have very small birds) and they won’t accept ANY pet for any property- I explain they’re in a cage- they don’t care NO PETS FIRM! she was waiting for me to say I’ll get rid of them but I grabbed my paperwork and left. Soooo back on the hunt.

I feel like a failure, I feel like a bad parent, i feel like I have no control over my life and I feel like there’s no rope to climb up out of this pit. I’m just so mentally exhausted, I want to run away and never come back. **Please don’t tell me to leave this state- I CANT, for a lot of reasons, top of the list being all of our licensing/certificates/business is tied to this state- if we left we would be even WORSE off- trust me, I’ve run the numbers. It’s just not an option.

Thanks for listening, I didn’t really know where else to put this. I mentally cannot deal with a bunch of LL telling me how if I wasn’t such a POS failure I wouldn’t be a renter and I think this is a fairly safe space to avoid that. I firmly believe housing is tied, at least in part, to mental health. If the government truly wanted to fix the housing crisis and address mental health, there’s something they could do that would help both. Feel free to add your own vents in the comments, I don’t think I’m alone here.

We moved out of an apartment with a nightmare of a landlord in December. It has now been 32 days (Michigan law requires deposit and/or itemized list of deductions be sent within 30 days). Tonight we texted and let them know that we haven’t received our deposit and asked if it is in the mail.

The landlord said, “I'm waiting for the final water bill - I plan to see if it's posted tomorrow. Otherwise, if you would like me to estimate it based on previous bills, I can do that.”

Is there some kind of exception that makes it legal for them to withhold the deposit beyond the 30 days legally required to wait for a bill to come out like this? Or would we be entitled to 2x our deposit, no deductions allowed for damages, etc. now? Previously this bill was paid through the rent portal, added onto our rent every few months (I think it’s a quarterly one).

Suggestions on how to respond?

Thanks for any thoughts or legal information you may have!

Hi! I just received a 60 days notice from my landlord (California) but it doesn’t look right. Do any of you guys have a 60 days notice that I can see?