Apartment Situation [Urgent]

[PrettyBoyAJ]

So I have been living in this apartment complex for the past Two years.

A month ago they called me and asked me if I was renewing. I told them yes and when I told them yes they told me that I have to move out the 31st because they had already placed new people in my apartment because I didnt renew in time.

They originally wanted me to move out the 31st and move back in the 17th to a new spot. I told them hell no, I need a place to stay. I always pay my rent and I had every right to renew my lease! The manager offers that I can stay at another apartment (Called 224). So then unhappily I said that's fine. I just need a place a stay! I can't move out the 31st and move back in the 17th. I need a spot.

She told me I had to take the apartment as is though because it was spur of the moment. I asked her if it was clean and liveable in! The lady told me yes. So I moved in 2 days ago on the first. When I come in it smells like straight Dog Urine. Place isn't even clean. Tampaxs and dog bones on the freaking floor. Even one of the walls paint was completely destroyed and a hole was in the wall.

I thought to myself that all this can be fixed easily. I could clean up the spot and make it a new home. So I finish packing all my stuff in the crib even though it smells like Dog urine. I've been spraying for days and I cant get this crappy smell out of the place. My bedroom door won't even close!

But my best friend told me that he saw roaches. So I was like hell nah, I can't do bugs. Can't do it. So I got some raid and sprayed one bug. Then in the next few hours literally there are 100's of roaches. So I get me a little Roach Defroster thing to set off in the crib. I go to my girlfriends cribs and set that bug thing off. I come back 5 hours later and I look at the walls. There is even bigger roaches chillen and sh!t. and by the fridge there are nearly a thousand of them roaches.

For all my law school people do I have any sort of case with these apartments. This crib is unhabitable and I refuse to live here. Tommorow I'm going to the office and demanding that they move me and give me free rent for a month or I'm going to a higher power and just living somewhere else.

What do you guys think I can and should do?

 

[backbreaker]

really, you never should have left the first apartment complex. this is why i would never rent an apartment from a small time apartment complex person who owes one place i don't like back water **** like that. you lived there for over a year you have squatters rights. she can't kick you out like that no more than you can kick a girl out who is on the lease if you break up.

my honest advice.. man, i mean i do very well for myself but my family most of it is dirt poor. i refuse to believe you can't get the smell and roaches out of the house. u just dont' know how or aren't trying hard enough.

go to the store get you some bleach and some ammonia and some dish washing (not the liquid the actual detergiant), put some cold water in your kitchen sink, mix all three and use it to scrub every inch of that apartment and go back and do it again. your house will smell like a hospital ward when done. find every hole in the bottom of the floor board and cover it up, go to the HARDWARE store or like a little flower store and tell them that you need to buy some insecticide. not the fvcking **** in the little plastic bottle tell them you need some industrial strength insecticide. you can get it at pretty much any plant store. it should come in a canister like a fire extinguisher. just walk around and spray it across the floor board. worse case scenario just call terminex and tell her to foot the bill. and if she doesn't threaten to sue. you spray that **** every 6 months around the house you won't have roaches i assure you. inside the house and outside the house if you can all around.

keep every receipt for everything u buy and either make her pay it or take it off next month's bill. tell her you are pratical and you aren't going to make a stink about lying to her about the condition of the apartment but she needs to cover your expenses.

my dad bought a house wth literally, a tree growing in the middle of the damn living room floor and in 2 months you could eat a dinner off the kitchen floor it was spick and span. just roll up your sleeves and put on your big boy underwear and clean the house right. My father owns a janatorial business and i always worked for him growing up off and on. you learn to clean pretty much anything.

also assuming you have wooden floors go rent you a stripper and some wax and strip the floor and wax it. for an apartment it should take about 2 hours if you do it right. apartment be good as new.

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

Good stuff BB, I been trying to clean the apartment but nowhere near that hard.

I'm going to go to the leasing office right now and demand them to compensate me. If they don't I guess I'll just get some cleaning supplies and clean more while I get in contact with higher management.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Regarding your first apartment, they had every legal right to kick you out if your lease had expired. That's the point of the lease. The only exception would be if there were a local ordinance that gave you some time before you had to move. An ordinance like that would only be found in more liberal places like parts of Canada and maybe California. I would doubt very much that such a rule existed in Atlanta.

Regarding your current apartment, the million dollar question is this: did you sign a new lease?

If you didn't - then move! There is no contract binding you to stay there. In multi-unit buildings, it is nearly impossible to get rid of roaches.

If you did sign a new lease, then all of your claims relating to the roaches, filth, and unlivable conditions can only be used to get you out of the commitment you signed, at which point you then move.

You really don't want to get into a long legal pissing match trying to make a warrant of habitability claim. It's not impossible to win, but all of the burdens of proof are on you. And you pay court costs. Sometimes you get an old man judge who is a landlord himself and simply prejudiced against tenants. And even if you win, all you win is the right to move.

What do we almost always tell guys who come onto this site with a story about a relationship that is treating them badly? You need to next your landlord.

 

[iqqi]

For roaches and any bug at all get this stuff: fleabusters. It will be the best $40 you ever spend.

When I lived in Atlanta, I moved to the hood. My apartment was so cute. But it was really ghetto, and the building was infested with roaches. Also a ground level unit, so other bugs. I had some fleabusters from a flea infestation at my previous apartment. I powdered the hardwood floors, swept them good, and put the powder in corners and crevices my cat would not be able to get to.

My neighbors may have been dealing with roach roomies, but I never saw a single critter after I handled my own unit.

You will have a lot of powder left over. If you want to be a champ and your apartment building isn't too big, you can even give some powder to your neighbors and really wipe the bugs out.

You did get hosed on that new apartment. There are laws that will back you up in court about having to clean it yourself. You should already be deducting an amount off your rent for cleaning it in the first place.

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

Well after arguing with all the employees for an hour and chumping off one of the females that worked there they decided to let me move out for a week and compensate me my rent that I paid.

When I get my keys back to the apartment the rugs will be clean (not smelling like Dog Urine), Walls will be painted, and the bugs will be gone.

 

[iqqi]

Hope it works out for you. Roaches and other little bugs can be pretty hard to get rid of.

Do yourself a favor and spend $40 on that powder, to be safe. Will keep all crawly creepies out of your life for a long time.

 

[backbreaker]

something else,

I don't know just what type of place you live in, but like fi you have nasty neighboors and you think you might have rodents, the best thing you can buy is a cat. you can probably even get one for free

if you have a pet cat there is no way you will ever see any rodents.

that's what they do at the horse track as rats and **** spook horses so they always keep cats to kill rats and mice

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

So they let me move out last week for 5 days until the bug people came. I move back in my apartment then go to Birmingham and Atlanta for a couple days. I finally get back this morning and there is still bugs in my apartment. So I go to the office and she tells me I can buy stuff and she will take it out my rent. I go and buy stuff and use all of it. Bug Barriers, Roach bait......

The next ****ing day there is roaches in my goddamn apartment. So I call them and ask for the manager. Dude tells me she is out and she will be back shortly and she will call me when she is back in the office. I call back 30 minutes later and dude said same thing. So I call back 10 minutes ago and it goes to voicemail. I actually walk to the leasing office and now the place is closed.

This place still smells like DOG PISS and these walls are still trashed. Rug trim is not even connected properly and I sprayed so much raid in the house that I am scared to even cook or eat in this apartment without getting myself poisoned.

This is some bullsht. I did clean and it still smells like dog piss. I bought hella raid sht for roaches and now the problem is even getting worse and now coming to my bedroom. I'm about to go off on all those people. I have done nothing to them whatsoever and they treat me like a btch.

 

[Bible_Belt]

You can't ever really make people do anything. All you can do is make yourself choose better people.

 

[speed dawg]

First of all, read the fine print on your lease for the old apartment. You are leaving out a lot of details that we need to help you. Did your lease actually expire? Were they entitled to give you notice of said expiration? So many factors here at play here.

A month ago they called me and asked me if I was renewing. I told them yes and when I told them yes they told me that I have to move out the 31st because they had already placed new people in my apartment because I didnt renew in time.

Umm, OK. So they call and ask if you're renewing, but in the same conversation tell you to leave? Like I said, better take a look at that fine print.

 

[iqqi]

I found this on Yahoo answers for you:

there are 2 laws to protect you; real estate law and
pure contract law;

you obviously did not inspect the property.

so, your next two options are;
a; walk away, under the doctrine of "NO meeting of the minds"
if there is no M of the M, it means you presumed one thing
he another--thus, you have no contract.
b; pay others to clean up the place and know that the
landlord is a lying, thieving jerk.
he will never follow the law except to sue you if you fail to pay

i suggest leaving immediately

a hotel for 3-5 days and put stuff in storage

sue him for anything you have paid
Source(s):
RE broker

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

Well I went to higher management and they did something about it within minutes!!!!

They moved me to a clean apartment so I moved half my stuff there. No site of bugs in the living room but there are a few of the same damn german ****roaches in my room. Its because they are definitely hiding in some of my stuff.

I gotta finish moving tomorrow and I''ll try better to inspect everything before bringing it to my new house. It's a damn shame that I got to go through this but I'll definitely get exterminators in this new place via The apartments money to make sure I never have this problem.

The bugs are so annoying. I cringe when I see one.

Thanks for the advice Backbreaker and iqqi!

 

[speed dawg]

Well I went to higher management and they did something about it within minutes!!!!

They moved me to a clean apartment so I moved half my stuff there. No site of bugs in the living room but there are a few of the same damn german ****roaches in my room. Its because they are definitely hiding in some of my stuff.

I gotta finish moving tomorrow and I''ll try better to inspect everything before bringing it to my new house. It's a damn shame that I got to go through this but I'll definitely get exterminators in this new place via The apartments money to make sure I never have this problem.

The bugs are so annoying. I cringe when I see one.

Thanks for the advice Backbreaker and iqqi!

Yep, you gravitated towards the advice you wanted to hear. With the least work involved.

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

True. I was cleaning the apartment and it was not working. Had over 50 baits, had a bug barrier, had raid on deck. Still was infested. Even called the Orchin man and they told me these type of ****roaches takes weeks to fix if not months. I was all down for putting up with this until I seen them in my room.

I don't have time to be waiting months for them to fix anything. I have 4 months of school EVER. I'm trying to set the pad up.

I'd understand me fixing up the apartment if I caused the situation but moving people into a already bug infested apartment is not good business.

 

[edmndnlsn]

Well, you also know that they have ditched You someway. But the other way out its their place and they have every right to give to whoever they want. You may consider having Your new apartment cleaned up by professionals and get rid of the matter. All the best with the new place.
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