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Re: Another stupid roomate situation
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[ QUOTE ] My roomate is a real estate agent so he was taking care of all of this....Then last week he tells me he is giving the landlord a 45 day notice any day now, and we will have to move out December 1st. [/ QUOTE ] Like 99.9% of tenant/landlord problems this one boils down to the old "I let other people dictate the terms and conditions of my living arrangement and then - this is the totally unforeseeable part - I got screwed! Can you believe it?!?! So who has ideas?" [/ QUOTE ] Are you stupid or trolling? I mean, was he supposed to handcuff himself to his roommate and walk with him to the landlord's office so that he could be certain his roommate turned in the lease? |
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Re: Another stupid roomate situation
first, you still havent directly talked to the landlord correct? you are still going off everything roommate is telling you which is what got you in trouble in the first place. i would call landlord and ask if she has a signed lease from you.
if there is no signed lease, depending on state laws where you are, i dont understand why a tenant needs to give 45 days notice to move out on a month-to-month. something sounds fishy w/ that. and as chess says, half rent wont cut it. landlord wants 100% of the rent. partial payment doesnt mean anything since she cant make a partial mortgage payment on the house. |
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Re: Another stupid roomate situation
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] My roomate is a real estate agent so he was taking care of all of this....Then last week he tells me he is giving the landlord a 45 day notice any day now, and we will have to move out December 1st. [/ QUOTE ] Like 99.9% of tenant/landlord problems this one boils down to the old "I let other people dictate the terms and conditions of my living arrangement and then - this is the totally unforeseeable part - I got screwed! Can you believe it?!?! So who has ideas?" [/ QUOTE ] Are you stupid or trolling? [/ QUOTE ] Just stupid. [ QUOTE ] I mean, was he supposed to handcuff himself to his roommate and walk with him to the landlord's office so that he could be certain his roommate turned in the lease? [/ QUOTE ] I'm not sure what you usually do with your roomates but I usually don't handcuff myself to them under any circumstances. But if that's your thing, we'll that's your thing. As for REALLY IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS like leases, I sure as hell don't just give it to someone and assume that everything is fine. Standard operating procedure for anybody should be to have a rock solid paper trail of copies of leases and correspondence signed by you and the landlord and any tenants so that you don't end up in a terrible undefendable position. It's not trolling to tell someone "you are suffering the consequences of not taking something seriously enough". Sometimes you have to nit it up to protect yourself against the doucebags of life. |
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and as chess says, half rent wont cut it. landlord wants 100% of the rent. partial payment doesnt mean anything since she cant make a partial mortgage payment on the house. [/ QUOTE ] Did anyone mention that the landlord is a woman? Or has this PC stuff really become standard even in informal conversation? |
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Re: Another stupid roomate situation
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[ QUOTE ] and as chess says, half rent wont cut it. landlord wants 100% of the rent. partial payment doesnt mean anything since she cant make a partial mortgage payment on the house. [/ QUOTE ] Did anyone mention that the landlord is a woman? Or has this PC stuff really become standard even in informal conversation? [/ QUOTE ] meh, standard. even as a facet of schooling teachers, it's trained in as "grammatical correctness." |
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Re: Another stupid roomate situation
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[ QUOTE ] and as chess says, half rent wont cut it. landlord wants 100% of the rent. partial payment doesnt mean anything since she cant make a partial mortgage payment on the house. [/ QUOTE ] Did anyone mention that the landlord is a woman? Or has this PC stuff really become standard even in informal conversation? [/ QUOTE ] Landlord is a guy, and beyond loaded. He bought this apartment for ~400K for fun. But yeah, ideally I would like to stay in Boston and really like this apartment. Its brand new, huge and all granite and stainless steel and only 850 a month. Moving is such a pain in the ass too. |
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Re: Another stupid roomate situation
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[ QUOTE ] and as chess says, half rent wont cut it. landlord wants 100% of the rent. partial payment doesnt mean anything since she cant make a partial mortgage payment on the house. [/ QUOTE ] Did anyone mention that the landlord is a woman? Or has this PC stuff really become standard even in informal conversation? [/ QUOTE ] i did that because it made it easier to read. not so you could feel comfortable w/ your PC-ness. so many posts in OOT are unreadable because people dont differentiate others and overuse "he" and write things like "he told him, he would give me a ride to his house." huh? i guess i fall victim to taking longer to explaining myself than it would have been to have just written "landlord" so the sensitive types wouldnt have been offended. |
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Re: Another stupid roomate situation
this is a friend of yours?
[ QUOTE ] Can I just be like [censored] you I signed a lease im not moving and continue to send half the rent to the landlord? [/ QUOTE ] obv. no. you will owe the whole rent to your landlord. from the landlords perpective, this is a YP, not MP. (Your Problem, not My Problem). I mean you could send 1/2 your rent in, but you might as well send $0 in. either way you are breaking your (implied) agreement. |
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this is a YP, not MP. (Your Problem, not My Problem). [/ QUOTE ] have you seen the scene from the office where michael uses acronyms to save time and spends the first part of the meeting explaining what the acronyms stand for? you might be able to identify. |
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Re: Another stupid roomate situation
Sounds like your 'friend' deserves a kick in the nuts. At this point blame assignment is pointless. Just do what you have to do (legally) to get the outcome most advantageous to you.
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