Who knows Renters Rights?…legally speaking

[EconProf]

You have a crappy landlord who will always be a crappy landlord. He is the type that gives all of us landlords a bad reputation.
I’d suggest you go one of two routes:
1. Since he will always be a pain in the ass to you, or any future tenant, fully enforce your legal rights and become a pain in HIS ass. It sounds like you have so many rights being violated already, you can start giving him written demands immediately to provide you with a safe, habitable place to live for your rent checks. First, read thoroughly your rental agreement.
Or,
2. Move out. You took over a place with certain advantages, which you mention. You perhaps got an extra good rent in that voluntary transaction. Many crappy landlords offer lower rent and hope minor faults are thereby accepted by the tenant. Many tenants actually prefer the lower rent along with the faults. So its your choice. BTW, didn’t you see a lot of these problems and red flags before you moved in?

[TexasLine]

Well I’ll be darned…landlord called this AM and gave me an hour notice and came by to put in the baseboards (6 weeks later). One of the first things he said is that he had fixed the heating duct under the house the last time he was here, a week ago. I didn’t know that so that was a surprise(we weren’t home).

Better late than never I guess.

@EconProf…we did notice some things…like filthy window tracks….but we didn’t really comprehend this issues until we had been here a week or two. Example…cat hair in the bathroom cabinets even though the previous renter had no cat…female hygiene products in the same cabinet…we finally figured out this was from them(the landlord), they had cats, and it had been there since they moved out in ’08. The previous renter was here only 1.5 years and left things the way she found it….he has paint and tools taking up 1/3 of the garage, stating that “the house always needs tools”. He said when we moved in he’d fix the rain gutters before the rainy season and fix the driveway…and trim the pepper trees etc, still waiting on those(missing rain gutters causing so much collateral damage). There is a hole in the balcony door that I could kick a hole in if I tried…promised that fix too.

He’s not going to be able to keep good people here, in spite of the “pluses”. Most people want to live in comfort…of course, crack heads are less demanding.

AnyWho…started work on a veg. garden today, removed rouge bamboo, ate an orange off the tree…

…trying hard to save for a down-payment…

[TexasLine]

Well I’ll be darned…landlord called this AM and gave me an hour notice and came by to put in the baseboards (6 weeks later). One of the first things he said is that he had fixed the heating duct under the house the last time he was here, a week ago. I didn’t know that so that was a surprise(we weren’t home).

Better late than never I guess.

@EconProf…we did notice some things…like filthy window tracks….but we didn’t really comprehend this issues until we had been here a week or two. Example…cat hair in the bathroom cabinets even though the previous renter had no cat…female hygiene products in the same cabinet…we finally figured out this was from them(the landlord), they had cats, and it had been there since they moved out in ’08. The previous renter was here only 1.5 years and left things the way she found it….he has paint and tools taking up 1/3 of the garage, stating that “the house always needs tools”. He said when we moved in he’d fix the rain gutters before the rainy season and fix the driveway…and trim the pepper trees etc, still waiting on those(missing rain gutters causing so much collateral damage). There is a hole in the balcony door that I could kick a hole in if I tried…promised that fix too.

He’s not going to be able to keep good people here, in spite of the “pluses”. Most people want to live in comfort…of course, crack heads are less demanding.

AnyWho…started work on a veg. garden today, removed rouge bamboo, ate an orange off the tree…

…trying hard to save for a down-payment…

[TexasLine]

Well I’ll be darned…landlord called this AM and gave me an hour notice and came by to put in the baseboards (6 weeks later). One of the first things he said is that he had fixed the heating duct under the house the last time he was here, a week ago. I didn’t know that so that was a surprise(we weren’t home).

Better late than never I guess.

@EconProf…we did notice some things…like filthy window tracks….but we didn’t really comprehend this issues until we had been here a week or two. Example…cat hair in the bathroom cabinets even though the previous renter had no cat…female hygiene products in the same cabinet…we finally figured out this was from them(the landlord), they had cats, and it had been there since they moved out in ’08. The previous renter was here only 1.5 years and left things the way she found it….he has paint and tools taking up 1/3 of the garage, stating that “the house always needs tools”. He said when we moved in he’d fix the rain gutters before the rainy season and fix the driveway…and trim the pepper trees etc, still waiting on those(missing rain gutters causing so much collateral damage). There is a hole in the balcony door that I could kick a hole in if I tried…promised that fix too.

He’s not going to be able to keep good people here, in spite of the “pluses”. Most people want to live in comfort…of course, crack heads are less demanding.

AnyWho…started work on a veg. garden today, removed rouge bamboo, ate an orange off the tree…

…trying hard to save for a down-payment…

[TexasLine]

Well I’ll be darned…landlord called this AM and gave me an hour notice and came by to put in the baseboards (6 weeks later). One of the first things he said is that he had fixed the heating duct under the house the last time he was here, a week ago. I didn’t know that so that was a surprise(we weren’t home).

Better late than never I guess.

@EconProf…we did notice some things…like filthy window tracks….but we didn’t really comprehend this issues until we had been here a week or two. Example…cat hair in the bathroom cabinets even though the previous renter had no cat…female hygiene products in the same cabinet…we finally figured out this was from them(the landlord), they had cats, and it had been there since they moved out in ’08. The previous renter was here only 1.5 years and left things the way she found it….he has paint and tools taking up 1/3 of the garage, stating that “the house always needs tools”. He said when we moved in he’d fix the rain gutters before the rainy season and fix the driveway…and trim the pepper trees etc, still waiting on those(missing rain gutters causing so much collateral damage). There is a hole in the balcony door that I could kick a hole in if I tried…promised that fix too.

He’s not going to be able to keep good people here, in spite of the “pluses”. Most people want to live in comfort…of course, crack heads are less demanding.

AnyWho…started work on a veg. garden today, removed rouge bamboo, ate an orange off the tree…

…trying hard to save for a down-payment…

[TexasLine]

Well I’ll be darned…landlord called this AM and gave me an hour notice and came by to put in the baseboards (6 weeks later). One of the first things he said is that he had fixed the heating duct under the house the last time he was here, a week ago. I didn’t know that so that was a surprise(we weren’t home).

Better late than never I guess.

@EconProf…we did notice some things…like filthy window tracks….but we didn’t really comprehend this issues until we had been here a week or two. Example…cat hair in the bathroom cabinets even though the previous renter had no cat…female hygiene products in the same cabinet…we finally figured out this was from them(the landlord), they had cats, and it had been there since they moved out in ’08. The previous renter was here only 1.5 years and left things the way she found it….he has paint and tools taking up 1/3 of the garage, stating that “the house always needs tools”. He said when we moved in he’d fix the rain gutters before the rainy season and fix the driveway…and trim the pepper trees etc, still waiting on those(missing rain gutters causing so much collateral damage). There is a hole in the balcony door that I could kick a hole in if I tried…promised that fix too.

He’s not going to be able to keep good people here, in spite of the “pluses”. Most people want to live in comfort…of course, crack heads are less demanding.

AnyWho…started work on a veg. garden today, removed rouge bamboo, ate an orange off the tree…

…trying hard to save for a down-payment…

[JBurkett19]

I recommend moving out. To give the landlord a “hard time” with getting lawyers involved, etc. will be just a frustrating waste of time. You are renting and one of the perks of that (under these circumstances)is that you can give notice and move out. Life’s too short to mess with this guy.

[JBurkett19]

I recommend moving out. To give the landlord a “hard time” with getting lawyers involved, etc. will be just a frustrating waste of time. You are renting and one of the perks of that (under these circumstances)is that you can give notice and move out. Life’s too short to mess with this guy.

[JBurkett19]

I recommend moving out. To give the landlord a “hard time” with getting lawyers involved, etc. will be just a frustrating waste of time. You are renting and one of the perks of that (under these circumstances)is that you can give notice and move out. Life’s too short to mess with this guy.

[JBurkett19]

I recommend moving out. To give the landlord a “hard time” with getting lawyers involved, etc. will be just a frustrating waste of time. You are renting and one of the perks of that (under these circumstances)is that you can give notice and move out. Life’s too short to mess with this guy.

[JBurkett19]

I recommend moving out. To give the landlord a “hard time” with getting lawyers involved, etc. will be just a frustrating waste of time. You are renting and one of the perks of that (under these circumstances)is that you can give notice and move out. Life’s too short to mess with this guy.

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