Recent content by dharmakaya

I learned a lot. If not through this, I can never be an experienced tenant. If LL is going to charge me for that, I'll go to a small claim court, not much more to lose anyway. Can not let them take advantage of me so easily.

Can't that drop of dry paint on the broken surface prove anything?

no for your first three questions. But they have no proof either. That small drop of dry paint(It's very small, if you don't pay attention, you will not notice it.) on broken surface can prove the damage happened before we moved in.

Today, one of my friend offered to sign a new lease with them. When the management guy showed her our apartment, she pointed out that the toilet tank cover missing a small piece (about an inch) on the corner . That guy claim must be me who did it. Actually it was like that when i moved in...

If the LL allows us to run ads and do showing, I'm very positive to rent it out to tenant with good credit, the apartment is at good location with reasonable price. If I took the information I received from AGO to LL, it only means more fight. Whatever is not a happy ending. army judge, I...

Generally speaking, MA law obligates landlord to make reasonable efforts to re-rent the apartment. But they don't do showing in the past month, at the same time don't allow us to run ads and so showing. That means the only choice is to lose three months' rent. That's why i come here for some...

Our lease ends on July 31st. Last written notice is given on April 5th, telling them I'm moving out on April 24th. Because there is no showing by the landlord and nobody took the apartment(they do show other apartment in our building), we withdraw our notice on April 23rd. I'll write them a...

It's a fixed term lease, end on July 31st. They withhold last month rent, no security deposit. According to the lease we are responsible for all the rent until it's taken by someone. If the landlord don't show that apartment, we ar not allowed to show it, it seems that we had no choice but lose...

My question is Can tenants run ads on craiglist and show their own apartment and take potential tenant to the Landlord for application? Can anyone give us some suggestions on our situation? Shall I take the landlord to a small claim court? Here is my story, Our lease will be up by...