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Basically, my question regards the likelihood that I will be able to renew the lease of my current apartment after having sent a one month notice that I would not be renewing.
Here's the story, my wife, 1 year old child and I have been living in a spacious and cheap 1 bd in Kensington, Brooklyn. As our daughter has grown, we've started to feel a little cramped and felt we needed to move into a 2 bd apartment by the summer. Confident I would be able to find something by the end of August, I sent notice to the management company of our apartment that we would not be renewing the lease. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find the right apartment and the end of the month is fast approaching. I am still waiting to here back from a landlord today, but in the event we are not approved, we have been wondering how the management company would react if we asked to renew our lease.
It is perhaps worth mentioning that the management company of our current apartment is rather unprofessional, negligent and shoddy. It is hard to get ever anyone from the company on the phone, supers come and go frequently, maintenance is haphazard and cheap. We never even received a letter back from the management company confirming receipt of our 1 month notice. Maybe they never read our letter of notice?
Finally, I realize that the easiest solution might be to simply contact the management company and ask directly about whether it is possible at this point to renew the contract. However, since I expect to hear back from the aforementioned landlord of another building today, I think I might as well wait to contact our current management company until necessary.
What do you guys think? Will a management company most likely refuse our request to renew or be happy that they don't need to pay a broker to find new tenants? Or is it impossible to generalize in such a case?
Sorry, but this is a classic unanswerable question. How can anyone know that? It may depend on how good you are at humbly groveling. The longer you wait, the worse your chances, I imagine.
Its hard for any of us to know what your particular landlord/management company thinks of this subject. I know someone who would tell you sorry you need to move, while others would say ok cool.
Your answers pretty much confirm my assumptions, thanks.
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