End of lease - how many showings are reasonable
Our lease ends at the end of january. I work from home, and we also have a 6 month old baby as well. The landlord, who was a total tight-ass throughout the lease, is clearly scared he will be without rental income for 3 minutes between leases has given the apartment to (so far) three…
Our lease ends at the end of january. I work from home, and we also have a 6 month old baby as well.
The landlord, who was a total tight-ass throughout the lease, is clearly scared he will be without rental income for 3 minutes between leases has given the apartment to (so far) three agencies to re-rent. It is in a hot area, extremely expensive, but very shabby inside which I am sure means there will be many couples wanting to come in to see it and turning around and leaving. eg: the description and pictures on the BHS site makes ME want to live here (I can’t wait to leave).
How much can i deny access, and still get my deposit back? I don’t care about pissing off the landlord, he pissed me off for a year, but i do want my security deposit back of course.
Count me as a relative too
Someone disagrees with you and you think they are related to your landlord? Well I disagree with you too, I guess there are a lot of his relatives on this board.
You must comply with the landlord’s need to show the apartment. Regardless of your opinions of the landlord or the age of your stove. You signed the lease, now you must comply with it. Be an adult.
Hang in there. Dealing with the brokers might be the way to go. You just have to make it through to the end of the lease. In the meantime, document, document, document in case he tried something to withhold the security. Keep good records and try to keep your cool.
Have a good holiday!!!!
“i would be pissed off that you are even thinking about limiting access.”
“You sound like a terrible tenant.”
Haha funny guys. You sound like his family or something. I was asking about the right way to achieve REASONABLE access.
I work from home. We’ve had 4 brokers call us so far each independently want to show the place to their clients. Note: the brokers call us. He isn’t in the loop. If I give them all access they want we’d have to handle about 20 visits. The landlord is in long island and never comes into town, he just expects everything to happen. When we moved in, we found the disconnect between what the agent said the landlord would do, and what the landlord did do.
agent: he will clean, repaint, recarpet, there is a washer dryer
landlord: last tenants cleaned ok, nothing else needs fixing, no washer dryer access
For the entire year the landlord has been a cheap asshole. I’ve had to arrange to get anything (eg plumbing) fixed, then he complains about the bill. The oven is over 12 years old and doesn’t work right, he says “it is almost new! why do I have to replace it?”. The floors have splinters. The stoop is falling apart (dangerous for a us with kid and stroller).
he boasted that he stole the last tenants entire security deposit as penalty because they left not exactly on the lease renewal date, even though it cost him nothing – we rented it the day after they moved out.
He is lucky I am just trying to live the last 7 weeks (15% of the lease time) in this place with some peace and I’m not withholding rent and letting him sue me for it (which he’d never do anyway, he is beyond cheap!).
The idea of getting the brokers together to agree on a few fixed dates sounds good to me, i’ll try that.
as long as they give you reasonable notice, you basically can’t say no. if i were your landlord i would be pissed off that you are even thinking about limiting access.
You cannot deny access if it is in your lease that you must grant access, a typical clause. You sound like a terrible tenant.
After you speak with him, write up your concerns (and any solutions you have agreed upon) and send it to him in a certified letter with a return receipt so you have proof you sent it and that he got it (or at least you tried.)
I would try talking to your landlord about this and see if he could show it open-house style instead of to individual buyers. Schedule, say, three times/dates that the apt. is available to show and tell the brokers they can bring people by then.
You are going to have a gap in tenancy to above poster. To original poster, the landlord can have access to show the apartment. It sounds like it was a very bad experience, but my advice is to just get through the next 6 weeks and get your money. They have to give you notice however and you can insist on 24 hour notice, especially since you are there and have a child.
Hang in there and good luck.