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Practiced story teller by Anonymous on June 25, 2012 @11:59

Unmarried couple, Johnny and Cristina, supposedly engaged, entered into a 3-month lease. Her Aunt and Uncle, mom and daughter vouch for them. They are both on disability. She has a ring. Just shy of one month in, I get a call from another landlord on an application Cristina had put in for her rental. I call Cristina to ask if they are moving? and she says she has no idea at all about that, BUT Jonnie has left, nowhere to be found, even his grandma doesn't know where he is, that he had created a problem with his drinking and drugging, and she doesn't want to be around him because she's trying to stay clean and that he did something nasty to her visiting son...who I still haven't seen. I tell her she needs to move if she can't afford the rent. She tells me she'll let me know by the weekend what she's going to do. I visit a day earlier and stay in my unit right next door and notice a new guy coming to visit and they are hand in hand up and down the street; apparently she doesn't notice that I am there until the next morning; she calls me the following morning and tells me that she miraculously got in contact with Johnnie and says he agrees to pay his share of the rent for the next two months, even though he is not allowed in the house because he supposedly was nasty to her visiting son. She says she doesn't have any friends to ask to room with her and only knows "Robert" across the street. I tell her again that if she is not going to be able to afford the rent on her own, she needs to move and we will be keeping the deposit to cover breaking the lease but will probably not be taking anyone to court. The next morning, I see her kanoodling on the porch with the new man and I make a point of asking her about her son and meeting the new man, Sam, who says he lives around the corner. She had already told me she will try and look for another "roommate" and I her that if she isn't going to be able to afford the rent, she should move into the first place that called, and I also let her know that I will be sending people to look at our rental so that we don't lose any rent, which she agrees to with proper notice. I have already visiting inside and the place hasn't been cleaned and things are in disarry, dusty, broken tv in the backyard, etc. I tell her she needs to get it back in the shape it was in when they first moved in earlier in the month, and she says she'll do that "on Tuesday". She knocks on the door and hands me a phone number for another landlord and says "we found a house" and this lady wants you to call her. I say "what do you want me to tell her? and she says "well, that I'm a good tenant and I pay the rent", I say I can't vouch for "Sam" and we discuss a date she can be out by, which she says she hopes the next lady will let her wait until the 3rd because her check comes in on the 3rd. I tell her she can move out early from our place to be in on the 1st and she says her check doesn't come in until the 3rd and Sam just started a new job and doesn't have any money. Since I already told her we'd let her out of the lease as long as she moves out, my question is about keeping her/their deposit. As well, the electric bill is due, do I have the legal right to demand that separate from the deposit that I will be keeping?

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Re: Practiced story teller by Jake on June 25, 2012 @13:14	[ Reply ]

"I have already visiting inside and the place hasn't been cleaned and things are in disarry, dusty, broken tv in the backyard, etc." This is probably what you should expect from two people who have never worked in their life and at least one is a drug head. You know way more about these two than anybody should ever need or even want to know. Keep all the money and ask for whatever other money the deposit does not cover. Who did these tenants beat out to get your place?

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