I live in Maryland. the apartment complex I live in is like a slum landlord. We have had a mice infestation for over 2 years and they just bought and exterminator out to do something about it 2 weeks ago. We also have an infestation of ants and now we believe that we have also found roaches. They’re trying to blame it on the construction in the area, but the contrusction only startedd in the past year. When we put in maintenance calls, they don’t respond, take they’re time responding, or say that they handled the problem and did not. Also we have had to change the locks on the door because someone from the maintenance staff was in our apartment eating the food, watching the TV, and we have had DVD’s and CD’s go missing but nobody knows anything.

Daughter suddenly died at 24. Never thought she would need P O A since we should have left this world first. Not getting good responses from bank, landlord, etc!
We don’t know what to do!!

I have lived here for 2 years and three months and was planning to move out next month when I get my student loan money and then she attacked me. She was arrested and spent two days in jail and cannot come back to the house while I am here. Today I woke up to a “notice to quit” form filled out and saying i have to move out by january 4th at 1am. It is signed by my dad and his lawyer only, no judge or court personnel. I thought I would at least get 30 days? And someone told me it is a retaliatory eviction or that you can’t evict someone you assaulted or something? What do I do? I can move out but three days???

we have a tenant who was paying monthly and had a one year AS IS lease. the roof began leaking, my hubby tried to repair 3 times. want to build over hse so seems pointless to repair. renters agreed to move and signed a letter stating that they will use the sec. deposit for the month of aug and move out sep. 1st. they did not and asked for a few xtra weeks which we allowed but after another full month we began the eviction process. as soon as we did, the renters starting threatening to call code enforcement allegeing the roof fell on her child./ the house is not fit…
we are just waiting for our 5 day notice to be served by sheriff but anyone got any info on a sitch like this———– i have already read all the court packet/laws
thank you for your answers…
honestly the $ is the least of all—
we really just want them out

I have an “exclusive ” clause in my lease that protects me from competition in certain ways which my landlord has likely “breached the good faith of”.

I have recordings of him admitting to me that my competitiors were in his office “on other business”, and he was encouraging me to revel secrets to him and them. I suspect that either he or his wife has invested in a formidible, new competitor across the street from me. Although, I cannot prove it. My business is now nearly ruined, and I blame my landlord for not honoring or arrangement, therefore putting me in a position of certain financial destruction. I can’t figure out how to prove he or his wife is an investor, without large amounts of expense. I’m nearly broke now. He and his partners are very wealthy so if there are any attorneys out there who might would take a chance on something probono, it could be a large payday. I know he revealed sensitive info, and at least was approached by my competitors for an investment.
The exclusive clause specifically states that the landlord will not rent or sell property to another fitness center on any property at this center or any surrounding properties across the street. (intrade for a lengthy,expensive lease) Although it is very specific, I would imagine that at least the lease should be severable if he violated the “spirit” of the contract and helped a competitor open directly across the street on properties not belonging to him. I’m thinking I could have grounds to sever the lease because he immediately put my ability to pay him at risk. It seems that a person should not be able to enforce a contract he deliberatley made impossible for the other person to honor.

i am only one on the lease this is a domestic case between husband and wife.I also am getting a restraining order on him but I have to wait for county att.to be in on tues 6-1-10. Is there a web site i can download free Forms? He has depleted me and my resources. I cant afford an att. or to be beat any longer.I never signed any application .he set this up with the office then they called me with approval
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She spoke on the phone with apt. manager ( the sheriff was presant during call )wich told her this is between the two of them. Does this then give her the authority to serve him with eviction papers as well as restraining order so she can avoid future drama with keys, mail ect. since she is only one on lease? I would like to thank all answers on her behalf

I moved out of a apartment on May 15th and as of yet I have not received my security deposit back from the old landlord. She is refusing to answer my calls and has not returned any of the voicemails that I have left her. There was no damage to the apartment and the lease state 30 days after I move out that I can have my deposit back.

Ok my fiancee and I moved into an apartment July of 2007. This is in the State of Iowa. When we looked at the apartment there were a few stains and holes/tears in the carpet. The manager said that they would replace it before we moved in. The day we moved in the carpet was not replaced and we had no where to go so we had to move in with this carpet. My fiancee knew the manager, she worked at his high school years before. So we moved in with a verbal agreement that this carpet would be replaced and they would give us notice and they would take care of moving our furniture and stuff to have the carpet replaced. When we filled out the forms stating if anything was damaged in the apartment when we moved in the manager begged us not to check the carpet because she was suppose to have had it done before we moved in. So us being naive we didn’t mark it down. Two months into the first year we lived there the dishwasher broke. We had the maintenance men in to fix it, they said that the motor went out on it and that they would have to check with the manager to fix the motor or to get us a new one. We hadn’t heard back again from them about our dishwasher. We started to call at least once a week leaving messages and everything about It getting fixed. Well a year went buy and My fiancee and I could not find a cheaper place to live and he had just lost his job so we were forced to stay there. With us renewing our lease we got 2 free “perks” we chose carpet cleaning because by this time the holes/tears had gotten a little bigger and of course we had contributed a few stains to the carpet. December of 2008 nothing had gotten fixed no calls being returned nothing of that nature. My car got robbed Sunday after Christmas on there property, I went to the police station and documented it. The cops told me that this was the six or seventh time someone has complained about this. They let me know they contacted the apartment complex to notify them of this problem. I also called and left several messages about this so that they might hand out a flier or something so maybe someone would come forward to these crimes. The following weekend after my car got robbed and me calling the office everyday, I started getting knocks every hour from midnight to about 5 in the morning, Friday night, and Saturday night. I called to complain and I also called the cops, the cops said they didn’t find anything suspicious and left. I told the people at the apartment that I was afraid for my safety and I did not feel comfortable living there any longer. After that the Apartment complex left a note on my door saying that I would be fined $100 dollars for my dog running around my apartment at all hours of the day and night and barking constantly, if I did not fix the situation within 48 hours. I never got fined I finally got a hold of someone and explained that my dog does not bark unless someone knocks on the door or something of that nature and explained the weekend where my door got knocked on multiple times. And I also asked about the dishwasher getting fixed and now the garbage disposal was having problems, I asked about our carpet and the ceiling fans, and they said that they had remodeled an apartment and those things that they got for us were used in the remodeled apartment so they would have to order the supplies again. I then got a note the following week saying that the maintenance men had tried to come into my apartment multiple times to fix the things that needed to be, but that they couldn’t get it. I never received a phone call from them, of this issue and they have a master key so I’m not sure why they were not able to make it in. So I called again for a week straight and finally after a week of calling I got the assistant. I told her I would take a day off of work so they could come in and fix the things that needed to be fixed. They never came in to fix those things. So finally my Fiancee and I moved out of the apartment because he got laid off again from his job and we wouldn’t be able to afford the apartment. I was told by multiple people to just get evicted because I knew I would have a problem with these people. And I should mention that this complex had changed manager 3 times in the 2 months I lived there. So my fiancee and I moved all of our stuff out of the apartment. We called about 3 weeks later to let them know our stuff was out of the apartment. We never signed a thing nor did we ever say we were breaking our lease. We told them that if they would fix the appliances and the carpet that we would finish our lease. Two months later we got a thing in the mail saying we owe the apartment $2015 and will need to continue to pay rent until the apartment is rerented. Is this legal for them to do? Won’t they need to take us to court to evict us before we pay anything? I guess I’m not sure what to do in this situation. Please HELP!

Renting an apartment. Have never missed rent prior to August. Have never had complaints, pick up after my dogs, get along with my neighbors….no issues. Paid more than half rent for August. Have heard this postpones eviction process for 30 days, or that they cannot evict if payment is completed before eviction process is court-sanctioned. Is this true?

My rent at a Non-profit organization rooming house/homeless shelter includes all utilities. Back in September, the electrictiy was shut off. After nearly four days being off, one of the tenants decided to call the electric company who was unaware it was a communal living situation (14 women and children) they thought it was a single family home. When they found out there were infants in the home, they turned it on that night but informed us a payment hadn’t been made in over a year. Roughly a week later the gas was turned off, we had no heat, no stove, no hot water, no laundry. After 3 days, I called and spoke to the Mgr. (who also said unaware many people living there) the gas was turned on that evening and yes, I was told no pymt has been made since April 2009.

I was later evicted without due process. There are dozens of other infractions that some of the tenants are pursing (some are criminal).