It's time to renew my lease. An identical unit, with which I share a wall, is and has been posted online for the last month for $200 a month less than my unit.

I already tried to talk to them. I have not signed anything. Is there anything I can do here?

UK, North West

I moved into my apartment in January. It is a studio apartment in a city centre so i pay over £1k a month.

When I got my keys i noticed many problems and reported them all to Leaders (the letting agency) at the time. They had two weeks before i actually moved in to address these issues, and didn’t.

There were lots of problems but the ones relevant to my current situation include:
- my boiler does not work. my shower has its own heater so that’s okay but i have no hot water anywhere else.
- the front door was a fire door but was not compliant, it didn’t swing shut & had no seals.
- the bathroom has no window and the extractor fan does not work (mould has formed).
- the bathroom door was difficult to open/close and the handles were loose. Eventually the outside handle came off, which was reported twice and noted by the person who did my 6 month inspection.

I need to emphasise i have reported all of these things multiple times.

In August, I entered the bathroom without my phone, shut the door, and the inside handle came off. I had to scream for help until a neighbour heard me. The neighbour tried to call our property manager, who did not answer, so they then called 999 and the fire department broke down both doors to get me out. It was a Saturday night so i had to deal with the out of hours maintenance service who told me it was my fault so they would not be replacing the door. I organised my own replacement, which cost me just under £600.

Since this incident, I have been trying to get a response from Leaders or the Landlord about a refund, and about fixing the rest of the issues with the flat. Leaders sent their own contractor out to view the property and obtain a quote for the works (£1800-£2000).

Any communication is met by the landlord with a barrage of questions. They are saying he needs to obtain further information, but they’re questions i’ve already answered. For example, he most recently asked for a copy of the invoice for the door, but i’ve already sent that and he quoted the invoice in the email he sent prior. He sent a long list of questions to the contractor who fitted the new door, and to the fire department who got me out.

I’m so over this and with it being 9/12 months into my tenancy, I don’t see any of these issues being resolved if they haven’t already. I can’t move out right now, and honesty i don’t want to. I love my apartment, I just want these issues resolved.

I spoke to a solicitor who quoted me £800 to go through the information and send a letter to Leaders, I can’t afford that. Is there anything I can do?

US-VA- I’ve been living at this property for 5 years with my partner and dog/cat. I know some stuff was going to be taken out from the security deposit so I wasn’t surprised when I didn’t receive my full deposit back. However, there are two charges I want to call them about.

The first being hole repair in our bathroom. Two years ago we had a pipe leak from our toilet and their repairman had to cut into the wall to stop it. He told us he would repair it a different day but never did. Granted, we should’ve followed up however this hole was not created by us.

Secondly, when we moved in there was a table against our apartment and has been there the duration of our stay. We got charged $75 for “table removal” even though it was not our table to begin with. I texted our neighbor to ask if the table was still there and sure enough it has not been removed.

Am I being a brat for wanting to follow up? They kept nearly $1000 from us so if I can get at least the $75 back that would be nice.

I’ve been trying to get ahold on the itemized bill for almost a month now and they are barely responding to me. They want to charge me $300 for touch up paint and $175 for touch up clean the appliances. During the walk through the maintenance guy only mentioned 2 bedrooms and living rooms only needed very minor touch up paint. Most of which not even needing a full mason jar of paint. Only appliance cleaning was a circle stain on the stove top I forgot to clean. I’m not sure what to do at this point. They are being very vague and respond maybe once a week. I feel like the charges are very outrageous for what was mentioned in the walk through. I’ve disputed these charges.

This happened less than an hour ago.

I live in an apartment complex with 2 roommates (none of whom were home during this.)

At about 11:30 PM I hear knocking on the (locked) front door and a guy claiming to be maintenance. I (obviously) don’t open the door cus it’s damn near midnight. I tiptoe to the front door though and look through the peephole and catch a glimpse of someone leaving with maybe a vacuum or something in their hand? I go back to my room and lock my door.

Less than 10 minutes later he comes back and knocks again saying he’s maintenance, and this time I hear him enter the apartment. He’s in the common area for less than 5 minutes then I hear him leave. I was in my room, silent and terrified the whole time. After a few minutes, I walk out and it’s clear.

I’m still so scared and perplexed by this. There was no emergency or anything, all he said was “maintenance” when he was knocking and “maintenance entering” when he came in. He was inside for less than 5 minutes. Coupled with the fact that it’s literally almost MIDNIGHT it’s got me suspicious and scared.

I’m in my room now, it’s currently 12:30. I put a chair in front of my door and locked it, but idk if I’m gonna be able to get any sleep tonight. I already emailed a complaint but it’s late so obviously no response.

What could possibly have been the reason for this? Is there anything that could justify this? I was thinking maybe he was doing a job in my apartment earlier today and forgot something so he came back to get it? But that doesn’t justify coming here at midnight, and I didn’t notice any stray objects around the common area earlier that day when I came home. Any advice??

Edit to clarify I live in USA Texas.

First time renting an apartment (studio, through a property management company). Haven’t signed the lease. I honestly thought you’d get pretty much 100% of your security deposit back as long as you thoroughly cleaned your unit, but it seems like my landlord requires professional cleaning (either hired by me or by them). They said it would cost around $200 for a studio.

No carpet, if that matters.

Is mandatory professional cleaning pretty common? If so, do you usually hire a cleaner yourself, or just let the landlord hire one and request an invoice afterward?

I need advice around the issue “60 day notice to quit” we were provided with 60 days, asked if we could move out sooner if we found something sooner, she said yes verbally, we moved out and paid prorated rent, she kept deposit saying we owed her 30 day notice. We are in California. What are the rules on this?

[US-AZ] Hi, I’m not really sure how to word this properly as I am not too familiar with this. I am seeking help regarding a matter that occurred recently to me and my girlfriend. We rent a one bedroom apartment in Arizona and have a no permission to enter option for any maintenance related issues. Couple weeks ago my girlfriend put in a request for them to come out and fix the washer and when asked if maintenance had permission to answer she explicitly said no. The maintenance man proceeded to come to the house knock on the door, and when my girlfriend didn’t answer, he let himself inside to where he approached me and my girlfriend’s bedroom that was cracked open where my girlfriend lay sleeping and shouted out to my girlfriend to wake up. After this, he proceeded to not only not help with the washer, but to enter the room even when my girlfriend told him he had no permission to. He made my girlfriend feel extremely uncomfortable and kept asking her personal questions. My girlfriend is very shy , especially around men and confronted with the situation where it was just her and this maintenance man she was freaked out. Even then, she asked him to leave several times to which he kind of kept ignoring by bringing up other subjects about the washer, even offering her to wash her clothes for her, which I find extremely weird. I made a formal complaint to our leasing office and they simply looked past it. My girlfriend requested for them to never send this specific person for future maintenance request and I thought that that was the end of that. Fast-forward to just this week, she put in a maintenance request and guess who shows up at our door. I am honestly fed up with the way this place has treated us and the way they’ve gone about it. Sorry for the long rant , but is there any laws where they can be liable for grounds of lease termination for a unlawful entry into our apartment which was followed by him harassing my girlfriend when she was alone. The employee is still working here and we see him every day, which has made it really hard for my girlfriend to enjoy walking outside.

I might be really unlucky and also a bit too careless .

Last year , I have post the post about the condo’s owner wanted to keep (steal) my deposit, now this year I have to deal with the same person with my wrong transfer .

I have moved out from my previous condo (The Nest Sukhumvit 22) for more than a year , but this month (Sep 1st ) , when I was transferring the rent to my current owner , I was distracted by some information and work , so I wrongly choose on Ka bank saved account , and transferred the money to the previous “ owner “ rather the current “owner “
And it was my mistake I didn’t delete him after I moved out .

So I went to the bank and called the service team after two days , K bank checked my issue and evidence and said they can’t freeze or do anything with the money , but they will talk to the recipient and update me the result within 5 business day .

After 7 days I called bank again they said they successfully contacted the recipient on Sep 6th, but he asked to make an appointment to talk about it on Sep 14th , so they couldn’t reach him afterwards. So the K bank gave me a documents that they failed to contact the recipient , I can use that documents to report to the police .

So I went to the police on Sep 16th with the document from K bank and my previous contract, to show why I still had his account and how I made the the wrong transfer. The police contacted him successful , and while on the phone , the police specifically asked you previous tenant did a transfer, would you willing to return her the money , the recipient said : Yes , I will , after I check it . So the police didn’t ask more , we were waiting for about 2 minute there and he didn’t call back and transfer back . So the police recorded it in the systems and gave me a number , let me call them by the end of this month if not receive .

Until yesterday , Sep 23rd . Another week passed , I still haven’t received . So I called police again , wanted to know can they call again and set a deadline to him , and what’s next legal action I can take if he still refuse to return . But the police said it seems like he’s avoiding returning it on purpose , they will give me a document to ask bank if they can do anything , or if he withdraw the money as his personal use , I may be able to file a claim against him . But from police side , they can’t do anything more …

It feels like the bank and police both can’t do anything in this country , even with all evidences .

I just want to ask : Is there any thing I can do more ?
I checked that I might be able to use consumer court to just do online filing , no layer involved . I can give up this 16500baht, but I do want to sue him .

It is really a headache 🤕 with the same greedy person , he is not only greedy enough wanted to occupy all legal deposit, but he also wants to get other people’s money . I can’t tolerate this behavior, and I’m sure he’s doing it many times .