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To be clear, you aren't even sure yet if it did violate the lease. Have you read your lease lately? All that matters is what YOUR lease says, since they are all different. Coming here to ask doesn't clarify anything.
You should have a copy of your lease. Read it and see what it says.
It stings when you get a letter like that. Take what you can from it and move on.
Okay. It's been done (though reminding me of a full trash bin off of one visit is overkill to me.)
My clothes are going to be like that through the middle of June before I travel though, so I hope I still don't get any emails over that.
15 DAY + Really You better hope they don't pull a Fire Safety Insp. Here its done by the Fire Marshal.
Kim you are taking out your trash. You are putting it outside your apt where they told you to. My bosses apt when she lived down town the trash went in a bin in the hall. On Trash day the maintenance man clean out the bins & put the trash on the street.
It's a bin that is literally at your front door...you open your door and put the bag in...no stepping past the threshold.
I personally take my trash to the compactor. We do not have trash valet here and I never said we did and we don't live in an apt.
I just told you it didn't violate the lease, so yes. I read it. I'm only going to do what the lease and building code requires of me. My piles of clothes were on the floor for a reason.
If my place attracts vermin as they say, they need to be more specific, otherwise it's not a legal notice, but an email from someone ticked off about showing my unorganized apartment. I asked nicely for specificity and didn't get a reply back.
What I meant by legal notice was that you KNEW they were coming (they gave you legal notice to enter) and you chose to leave your unit in less than 'showing ready'.
You read the email, how much more specific do they need to be? They called you out and you're mad...we get that...so clean get ready for your visit next week.
It's a holiday weekend...you really expect them to reply to your non emergency email???
I still don't feel that a tenant is required to have their apartment "show ready" even WITH notice, and again, unless she is greatly downplaying the mess, it's not a big deal. When I was packing up my last place, my landlord called and wanted to do a showing. I told her I was 1/2 way packed, boxes open and stuff being sorted, and they can show it like that if they wanted, but it sure wasn't going to get done before they arrived. Clothes in a pile is not how many people choose to "get organized" but unless they are filthy, they are hardly going to attract "vermin". And a trash can has trash in it, shocking. I think the person who sent the email stepped over bounds. She's not selling her house, she is leasing an apartment and her lease is coming to an end.
I agree. My landlord at our last house tried to show the day (or two days, i forget) before we moved. I told her there were quite literally boxes everywhere and stuff everywhere in the process of being packed, but they still showed it.
I just told you it didn't violate the lease, so yes. I read it. I'm only going to do what the lease and building code requires of me. My piles of clothes were on the floor for a reason.
If my place attracts vermin as they say, they need to be more specific, otherwise it's not a legal notice, but an email from someone ticked off about showing my unorganized apartment. I asked nicely for specificity and didn't get a reply back.
They likely took pics. Sounds like you were warned. Comply or face consequences.
They likely took pics. Sounds like you were warned. Comply or face consequences.
This is the point the OP seems to be missing. While showing the unit they found it to be in a condition they didn't agree with ( yes, they can tell you how clean you have to be) and gave the OP fair warning to clean it up. If it was just about one pile of clothes and one bag of trash, I'd say maybe they were over the top, but they were showing the unit and I bet they looked at every inch of that unit. I know when I'm looking at a place I look at it from top to bottom and open every door, closet and cupboard.
I don't doubt they took pictures. The OP needs to get cleaning, they're coming out tomorrow.
I wonder if they will update after the inspection?
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You better hope they don't pull a Fire Safety Insp. Here its done by the Fire Marshal.
