Sorry for the confusion. We were supposed to move in on 9/1. When we arrived (on 9/1) the apartment was in poor condition. We began cleaning it that day and kept uncovering filth. After 9 hours of cleaning on Tuesday we realized there was still another day of cleaning left to do...
Ok. I just want to make sure I understand this. I could take legal action and sue for the security deposit and include Sept's rent, but she has a good agrument because we cleaned some of it? Our stuff was removed the next day, so none of our belongings are actually in the apartment.
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Hi Gail- Hopefully you see this. If we began cleaning the apartment would this effect the outcome? We began cleaning it b/c we had borrowed a vehicle and had nowhere to put our belongings. In order to get them out of the car we were forced to remove the items left in the apartment. In an...
Thank you so much Gail, hopefully we won't need to take it to court but if we do we are prepared. And because of your help I now have a better understanding of the actions we need to take.
Gail thank you so much, this has made me feel better about the situation.
I reside in Virginia. I understand your previous post. I would like to know if we are entitled to our entire first month's rent since we never moved in to the apartment?
It is. We signed a contract between the former tenant. I just wanted advice on if there is anything we can do to get our security deposit and first month's rent returned since the contract was breached on her part. I asked her for this and her response was, "I will give you half off...
I dealt with the previous tenant, she printed off a generic VA leasing contract and we signed it. I have pictures of the filth to prove what I saw when I moved in.
I subleased an apartment for 3 months. The landlord lives out of town and when I walked into the apartment the roommate had left junk all over the apartment. It was so much stuff I wasn't sure if she still lived there or not. I left a message for the landlord and she confirmed the roommate...