We are RENTING a home, can our landlord have an appraiser take pictures of the inside if even THEY HAVN'T seen
If you had rented this house from me I would have seen the inside of it while you were living there. Maybe only once, or maybe twice, but I would have seen it. Look at your business arrangement (that's what renting is) from your landlord's point of view. For money, he allows someone else to live in his house. He has a vested interest in making sure that you aren't doing something illegal (like a meth factory), and that you are generally taking care of the place (that you don't have 24 cats on the property, that the garbage isn't two feet deep throughout the whole house, etc.). He isn't interested in a few piles of clutter or laundry. He doesn't care that you have a picture of the canal on your walls, he just wants the walls to be intact. Appraisers look at the interior condition to get a better picture of value. Some things are worth more inside than others. A house with grand crown mouldings, granite counter tops, brazilian cherry flooring (or travertine flooring), etc., is worth more than laminate counter tops with linoleum flooring. The appraiser won't open closets (unless it's a walk in to gauge the size), they generally won't open the cabinets, but they will take pictures. They will want a picture of every room (if they are any good). It isn't a way to spy on you. If they wanted to see the inside, all they have to do is give you 24 hours notice for a landlord inspection and you'd have to let him in. The fact that he has never done this is amazing (and foolish on his part). good luck!
Is my Landlord responsible for fixing my closet or am I?
your landlord is responsible
Our rental home is in pre-foreclosure?
Febuary 1st of this year we moved into a rental home owned by a life-long family friend. Our rent is fairly inexpensive for a 3 bedroom 2 bath ($850) in Redding California. We paid a security deposit of $500 (also inexpensive) before we moved in. We have been paying rent on time every month. At the beginning of this month our landlord asked us for a copy of the lease (6 month lease), saying she can't find hers. She also asked us if we were interested in signing a longer lease for a year after this one is up. We told her we would love to. We didn't think anything was going on until we found a "Notice of Trustee's Sale" on the front door a few weeks ago. In the notice it says "On June 29, 2010 ............. will sell at public auction to highest bidder........." It says the notice of sale is $134,743.51, which I am surprised... I remember when she bought this house 20 something years ago. I figured it was paid off. I sent the landlord a text telling her about the notice, she text back saying "I am pretty sure I know what is up. I will get back to you" She never did. Two weeks ago my husband and I got a certified letter saying the exact same stuff as the "Notice of Trustee's Sale". I sent the landlord an email telling her. She wrote back "I'm so sorry! I have taken care of that but it looks like the release has not been received by the selling agent. I will make a call and if there is a problem I will let you know...Once again I'm very sorry!" I didn't hear anything back, so last week I sent her an email saying "Have you heard anything"... to which she never responded. I know she has been online too because she has commented on several of my facebook photos and status updates... lol I have looked at several of those 'foreclosure' websites, and our rental home is on every one of them. I asked a friend of mine that is a mortgage lender and he told me to just wait it out and see what happens. My sister in law is a Realtor and she told us to stop paying rent and just wait it out. Tuesday is the day that it is suppose to be auctioned. I am worried that we will have 3 days to pack and leave... Kinda hard to do when both my husband and I work full time, my husband is a full time student and we have children ya know... I guess my question is... what is going to happen on Tuesday? Do you think maybe she worked it out with her bank but just forgot to let us know?
Options on a foreclosed home with midland mortgage?
I rent a home in Indianapolis, mortgage company is Midland, my landlord is letting it go into foreclosure and have no contact with her at this time. I have paid rent well past the time of both my lease and the landlord making payments to the mortgage company, last payment made to them I believe is March of 2011. I received a preforeclosure statement from the mortgage company in august of 2011 and still continued to pay rent. My question is does this mortgage company do anything like allowing me to lease from them or the cash for keys thing I have heard about but not too famiiar with. There was a registered letter sent to my home in the landlords name from marion county but I could not pick it up, obviously because I am not her. but within 2 days received mail from lawyers advertising to help with foreclosure. Will I be served by sheriff? any one familiar with Midland please let me know. Appreciate the help, thank you.
Renters and Foreclosure: What are my legal rights?
Who ever the owner is accepted your lease knowing that he was in a preforeclosure situation. He has now put you at risk and has broken the lease himself. Contact HUD and RESPA they will advise you to an attorney that will not cost you anything. HUD does not like displaced renters. They will be on your side. I am not sure you have any obligation to pay rent at all in this situation. The reason I say this is because of the foreclosure the landlord broke the lease as if know one is renting it, You are paying for a secure stable home the number one right you have as a renter. This right has been violated by the foreclosure. Contact the attorney and they will help. They will just give you advise on what is next for you there is nothing at this point that can be done to the owner. I am affraid that if you laid out your deposit how much if any is recoverable. I am sorry for this situation I will be praying for you.
Section 8 from a landlords point of view?
1 - none really. Part of the rent is paid, but you are not allowed to charge fair market rent, so you take a loss even if you had a miracle tenant. 2 - poor renters. People not paying their way in life tend to be very destructive. 90% of the will be bad 3 - yes, in all states except MA 4 - no, inspections are basis stuff, no problems other then repairs. 5 - never, section 8 has computers sending out the checks. 6 - it is almost impossible. section 8 does provide them attornies when you try to evict them I do rent to section 8 tenants. ONLY seniors though, no more families. The last family caused more then 30k in damages, and as you know insurance does not cover tenant damage. One thing I do now is ask to inspect where they live now. 2 have allowed this and I rented to both. The ones that don't want me seeing what they have done to the last landlords property are people to be avoided anyway. Also be super careful when talking to their last landlord, make absolutely sure that is who you are talking to, not some friend. While lots of people are dishonest the section 8 renters seem to be overly so.
My landlord won't pay me my security deposit! What do I do?
I and my former room mate have attempted to call and email her several times to get our $1400.00 security deposit back, but she has not communicated with us at all! I have the lease. I researched the small claims court laws in California and it says the tenant has three weeks to notify the tenant about the security deposit or else I have the right to take her to court. Here is where it gets tricky. I said I have the lease, but the lease I found is for 9/7/2008 to 5/31/2009. We lived at the apartment until 8/01/2010. Now unfortunately (because I was a little younger and in college and not paying attention, stupidly...) I am not sure if I lost the new lease or I didn't sign a new lease at all. So for the big question for me is, is there a statue of limitation on a lease? Can I bring my landlord to court with just this first lease? Is there a statue of limitation on security deposits?
Can a landlord move my things without my consent?
Not while you are living there and paying rent, but if you are not paying rent and are in default, then per your lease or laws and ways or your local jurisdiction, at some point the place is back in the Landlord’s possession. If your stuff is still there it will either be moved and stored for a while, thrown out, or become the Landlord’s property.You might not be actively consenting to this at the time, but in fact you did consent to this when you signed the lease in this town and then chose not to pay rent or remove your belongings.(And if the first part of the first sentence above applies to you then the rest of this is not actually for you, just for tenants in general.)
Why are the listings on Zillow and Realtor different?
You've already gotten a bunch of great answers here as towhy the data can be different, but I'll add some color as a Zillow employee. As you’ve already learned Realtor.com dataalmost exclusively comes from the local MLS, so the listing has to be in thatsystem to appear on the site. Zillowgets a large percentage of our data this way too, but we also accept data fromhundreds of other data sources. Most ofthese other sources are Agent, Broker or Real Estate Franchise directfeeds. Usually these agents areinputting into the MLS, but sometimes they have their reasons why they don’t,and these direct feeds allow for the listing to still be advertised. We also take feeds from services that real estate agents useto syndicate their data across the web. Thisis helpful to agents whose MLSs and Brokers don’t participate in syndication orwho aren’t members of their MLSs. However, these services can require more manual management of thelisting data, which is where errs can occasionally happen. The data source is always noted at the bottomof every property detail page for the convenience of the agent and the viewer,so they know where the data is coming from and they can follow up if they spotanything inaccurate. In addition to this type of agent-sponsored listing, Zillow alsoworks with companies and individuals who represent other types of listing data:For Sale By Owner, foreclosure and pre foreclosure, new construction (builders),and rentals from both large communities and individual landlords. It is free for anyone (listing agent orhomeowner) to post to Zillow through our sister company Postlets.com. Lastly, we have a unique category of listings called Make MeMove – where the owner has not officially put their home on the market yet, butis publically stating the amount that it would take for them to turn the houseover to a new buyer. Some of these homeowners are more motivated than others, and you can see that in the prices theyare publishing. Hope this helps explains why listing data may vary from cityto city. Zillow also has data on about100 million homes online, with this data mostly coming to us via publicrecords. When we learn of a home orrental going on the market, we do our best to mash this public data togetherwith the listing data to give the viewer the most comprehensive view of the home as possible.