Re: When is the rent officially late with grace period

Re: When is the rent officially late with grace period by Jessica on December 29, 2020 @14:45

First of all, I was like 99% sure NJ legally required a 5 day grace period on all leases so this LL may HAVE to have that on his lease. Also, once it is the 6th, thats the day they can start charging late fees. I know because its happened to me many times as ive been a renter for like 16 yrs. Also hey go eff yourself! nj is an insanely expensive state and back when I could afford (barely) an apt here I found the absolute cheapest 1 I could find, while making well over double the federal min wage and lived off crackers basically and never EVER spent money on myself. I was the queen of frugal and I still almost could never make my payments by the 1st! IT's called getting paid every other wk. I have no control over when the company i work for pays me and trust, when ur living on coins those last few days b4 you get paid, you cant just pay ur wntire rent on the 1st. it doesnt mean ur a "problem" renter. In all my 16 yrs renting I NEVER was evicted except once when it was my stupid alcoholic dead beat roommates fault, not mine! and that time I even went to the condo complex and tried to explain to them that she had physically assaulted me and she also refused to sign the papers to let me move out and she also refused to leave so I could get another roommate. They said too bad nothing we can do. I ALWAYS put rent payments 1st which is why eventho I nearly always paid at the last minute, I still always managed to make that payment in full..for 16 yrs whether I lived with roommates or alone. Now I have sub tenants and they owe me thousands and Im way poorer than I was 10 yrs ago. Oh I make about the same amt of money but housng costs have almost doubled.oh and with covid, in nj there is no end to this eviction ban and my tenants refuse to move out, refuse to admit they cant afford this place and have made my life a nightmare. They spend money on shit they dont need all the time instead of making rent payments. They owe me like 4 grand for rent and utilities, internet etc and they have physically threatened me. even if i file an eviction, the soonest i could get them out would be like this summer...unless the gov extends the state of emergency again, then add another 30 days. then he could extend it again and add another 30 days. it could kee[ going forever. evictions cant start again until 60 days AFTER the last day of the end of the state of emergency then i have to get in line bhind the thousands of other evictions ahead of me. I need to move but instead of moving and being done with this, I now have to move but still be responsible for rent and everything still at this house as if I were living here until these butt heads actually leave. im low income. I cant afford to cover 4 grand or more that these people owe. Im going to have a screwed up tenant record, credit report and owe probably over 10 grand by the time this is over. I dont know wtf im gonna do and its all cuz of fucking covid and our idiot governor who doesnt leave exceptions for this type of thing!! im not really a landlord! im a low income tenant who is going to end up getting evicted right along with these dicks and have that on my record if I cant figure out how 2 make them leave and get all the money from them i need to catch up with my rent since im on the lease and they arent

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