Why do landlords in Bangalore demand 10 months rent in advance?
Most landlords in Bangalore are commercial and greedy. My landlord stays in USA. We have paid 1lakh5 thousand as advance ,while leaving she is deducting 15k as one month rent for her painting charges which was in so called rental agreement(don’t know who has made such law) .Point to be noted even its a new brand new flat six months old she will get it painted which is not needed. Of course who will not get it painted of its not from your own pocket. Now out of 90k she is giving us 50k and holding 4 0k for 20days.. The reason being given she has to ensure all things are in place from the new tenants and see no complaints come from them for 20days. That's bullshit she was talking about. May be somebody tortured her before and she is repeating the same . so anybody beware of such cases/situations .I have not seen this crap before from any tenant or landlord . Be careful before signing rental agreement. I am little curious to introduce my landlord name hope she reads it in near future. Hema DArsipudi.
My roommate says he wants to move out four months early. I offered him three months and no deposit back, is this fair?
You are short changing yourself.Did your roommate give YOU the deposit? Or did your roommate give the deposit to the landlord?If s/he gave the deposit to the landlord, then the landlord will give it back. You are not part of the transaction.But it sounds like you are the landlord in this situation. The person is not your roommate, they are your lessee.If the leasee gave you the deposit, then you owe the deposit back after paying to repair any damages. Were there damages?Simply write up a paper that shows how you account for all money. Show the four months rent owed in one column. Total it. Then show the deposit s/he paid, deducting the cost to repair damages, and total that column. That’s the amount you owe back.Subtract the amount you owe back from the deposit from the amount your leasee owes you in rent. What’s left is what s/he owes you.It’s nearly always more than three months rent.BTW, you should have a lease agreement that both of you signed that spells this out. Without a lease agreement, s/he owes you nothing and can disappear tomorrow.
Landlord cancelled a verbal agreement after taking a deposit?
I recently had a verbal agreement to lease a house. I paid him the deposit. The landlord has since changes his mind on renting me the house. Do you have any recourse without a written lease? I have already rented out my house and will be forcesd to store all my things until I can find another house.
How long can you typically go without paying your apartment rent if you got a 3 days notice to pay the rent or get out?
I assure you that not paying your rent is one of the worst decisions that you can make. Your life will not be the same after an eviction. It can be a very traumatic experience.Every state is going to have slightly different eviction laws but here in Ohio my company has a very large rental portfolio in the Cleveland area and this is how we handle tenants who do not pay rent.Rent is due on the 1st.Rent is late on the 2nd.We call tenants 3x day from the 5th through the 10th.We put up 3 day notices on the 10th.After the 3 day notices we file for eviction. Once we file we will no longer accept rent. At this point the non paying tenant can't pay or get out of the legal ramifications of their actions.We win the court eviction and get a write to regain possession of the property. The eviction remains on your record for life. It will be incredibly hard if not impossible to find another landlord willing to rent to you.We send in the bailiffs (guns drawn) to the home. If you do not open the door they kick it in and forcibly remove any occupants living in the home.Everything that the tenant owns is placed on the curb by a moving crew. They can clear out an entire home in about 2 hours. They are not vary delicate with your possessions. Everything stays on the curb until 5pm. Scrappers and thieves usually come by and steal anything of value. At 5pm we bring a dump truck and load up everything that is left and take it to storage. After 30 days in storage we take it to the dump.After all of the above a non paying tenant can also expect the following to happen.We take you back to court and sue you for back rent, legal costs and damages.We garnish your wages until all debts are paid off.As you can gather from everything above being evicted is a terrible experience that is 100% preventable by you. Don't be stupid, pay your rent or move out of your landlord's property you are only hurting yourself if you don't.For more information on evictions take a look at the LIVE video of one of my company’s evictions below.Have more Real Estate related questions? Let me know! Follow/Subscribe & simply ask. I will make you a FREE video reply. #AskJamesWiseFollow me on InstagramSubscribe to my YouTube ChannelWould you like access to a FREE list of the most profitable Real Estate Investments in the USA? CLICK HERE FOR ACCESS!
My roommate decided not to resign a new lease w/me, but has not moved out or paid rent, what are my rights?
I'm afraid there is not much you can do, especially if she is leaving soon. Depending on which state you live in, she has certain rights as a resident, even if she is no longer on the lease, so changing the locks may not be the best thing to do. The best time to do something was when the lease expired, then you could have immediately given her an eviction notice and taken legal steps to evict her if she didn't leave. However, since you allowed her to stay, she is no longer considered a "squater". It will take months to begin legal proceedings, especially since you only had a verbal agreement. I would try to work things out with each other to get the amount owed. If it doesn;t work out, it may not be worth the time and energy to recover the loss legally.
Is it illegal to put a stop payment on a rent check?
You have gotten bad advice from everyone else so far. The ONLY time stopping payment on a check is legal is when you have good reason to believe that you have been defrauded. Stopping payment for any other reason is fraud on the part of the person that wrote the check. Your 30 day notice must be given in writing to hold up in court, not verbally. Since the check IS in writing and also predates your notice, the court may very well consider your check for three months as a contract extending your month-to-month to three months. Changing your mind, which is certainly how it will look, is not a valid reason. It looks like you are breaking your 3 month lease. Also - you asked this 7 hours before I'm writing this, so that means you gave notice on October 7th that you are moving by October 31st. That is not 30 days on any calendar a judge will recognize. It looks more and more like a disagreement with the landlord over something and you decided to leave after paying. Stopping payment on that check may lead to serious legal trouble for you. If I presented that check for payment and it was refused by the bank because you stopped payment, I would have the police on you in a New York minute, and then I'd start legal eviction proceedings. The BEST you could hope for is to get two months refunded - December and January - by a judge. You didn't give notice in time to vacate by the end of October, and the landlord does not have to accept partial rent for November - she would be entitled to October and November. You can bet she'd be asking for some of those two months to cover 'damages' not covered by the security deposit, assuming you gave one. My advice is stay put and learn from this. If you feel you can't, move and then take her to court for December and January. DO NOT stop payment.
Can I take my roommate to Small Claims Court?
Do not ask for legal advice on Quora. If you need legal advice, ask a lawyer. It might be worth your money to hire a lawyer for a short consultation, and some lawyers will provide free consultations for some kinds of cases, and there may be an office like Legal Aid that will help people who can’t afford a lawyer. As others have noted, though:You can sue anyone. You could sue me for your lost rent. You’d lose, because I don’t owe you the rent, but you could still start the legal case of You v. Me, and the court would assign a case number and collect your filing fee.Your actual question, I think, is: “Is it a good idea to sue my roommate?” If so, a lawyer will want to see a copy of the lease, and will want to know whether your roommate has any money that you can plausibly get. No competent lawyer would express an opinion without more information than you have provided in the question. Whether it’s a good idea to sue is partly about whether you would win, but it’s also about how much time and money and hassle it would cost you to win, and what you would get if you win. Sometimes a no-brainer, total slam dunk case is not worth bringing because the defendant has no money, and so if you win you will obtain a worthless right to take a million dollars of a broke (or disappeared or deceased) person’s nonexistent money.