Shini
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Moved out of our apartment complex not too long ago and into a friends duplex.
We were on month to month with the apartment complex, they said they require 60 day notice before moving, we tried to do that, and nothing we found that was good (aka not another apartment complex) would hold something for us for 60 days, so we were like...Fuq. So we saved up, decided to just pay the reletting fee or w/e for moving out without having 60 days notice.
Well the place we were at is coming back saying we owe them 2 months rent, for the 60 days plus some other misc fee's that were incorrect and I'm hopefully getting removed this afternoon when I speak to the girl in charge of all this.
They're saying our lease provides the information that shows we would owe the 2 months rent regardless.
I have the lease, I've read the lease, it's a standard TAA lease (texas state lease) and in the parts where they amended it, like Texas only requires 30 days notice, they put 60, but no where in this lease does it say ANYTHING about being on month to month and moving out without providing notice you're required to pay anything, doesn't mention any fee's at all, not even reletting fee's. There's nothing about month to month. Every where in that lease theres a if tenant does this you get charged this fee. But there's nothing for month to month at all in there, it just says the tenant has the option to go to MtM after lease ends, and then it talks about some random MtM stuff but never lists any fee's, or even that 60 days is still required if you're on month to month.
And you'd assume if you're month to month, there's no more contract, no more fee's, etc...right?
The girl said that if someone moved in within the 60 days that they wouldn't charge us, well, I get a bill about 2 weeks after we move out with 1 month + the reletting fee for the 2nd month (so 85% of that month) + those other fee's, I'm like, dafuq? How can they be billing us right now if we're waiting the 60 days to see if anyone moves in?! Now we're on like, day 45 now, and I noticed there's a dish on my balcony where I use to live (we stop by to see friends occasionally), so I call to question about that so we can get that 2nd month reduced or completely taken off as it's OBVIOUS someone is there now. She said no, we said we wouldn't charge you rent that month, because we can't double bill rent for 1 unit, and we're not, I didn't charge you rent I charged you a reletting fee for that month. So basically she's getting creative with her billing and used word play with us the first time around to ease our minds and leave us open to be fak'd later.
So do I owe this crap or not?
We were on month to month with the apartment complex, they said they require 60 day notice before moving, we tried to do that, and nothing we found that was good (aka not another apartment complex) would hold something for us for 60 days, so we were like...Fuq. So we saved up, decided to just pay the reletting fee or w/e for moving out without having 60 days notice.
Well the place we were at is coming back saying we owe them 2 months rent, for the 60 days plus some other misc fee's that were incorrect and I'm hopefully getting removed this afternoon when I speak to the girl in charge of all this.
They're saying our lease provides the information that shows we would owe the 2 months rent regardless.
I have the lease, I've read the lease, it's a standard TAA lease (texas state lease) and in the parts where they amended it, like Texas only requires 30 days notice, they put 60, but no where in this lease does it say ANYTHING about being on month to month and moving out without providing notice you're required to pay anything, doesn't mention any fee's at all, not even reletting fee's. There's nothing about month to month. Every where in that lease theres a if tenant does this you get charged this fee. But there's nothing for month to month at all in there, it just says the tenant has the option to go to MtM after lease ends, and then it talks about some random MtM stuff but never lists any fee's, or even that 60 days is still required if you're on month to month.
And you'd assume if you're month to month, there's no more contract, no more fee's, etc...right?
The girl said that if someone moved in within the 60 days that they wouldn't charge us, well, I get a bill about 2 weeks after we move out with 1 month + the reletting fee for the 2nd month (so 85% of that month) + those other fee's, I'm like, dafuq? How can they be billing us right now if we're waiting the 60 days to see if anyone moves in?! Now we're on like, day 45 now, and I noticed there's a dish on my balcony where I use to live (we stop by to see friends occasionally), so I call to question about that so we can get that 2nd month reduced or completely taken off as it's OBVIOUS someone is there now. She said no, we said we wouldn't charge you rent that month, because we can't double bill rent for 1 unit, and we're not, I didn't charge you rent I charged you a reletting fee for that month. So basically she's getting creative with her billing and used word play with us the first time around to ease our minds and leave us open to be fak'd later.
So do I owe this crap or not?
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