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Old 06-20-2012, 02:06 PM
 
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my broker is the acting agent until ,my landlord comes back i moved in june 1st he never gave me a copy of my lease or a reciept for my brokers fee june 4th i noticed a leak i called the broker he said he was gonna send someone over i called him two days later and tell them there is a sewedge smell coming from my basement drains and radiators and there is a flood all the way up to my steps he said he was trying to find someone. he said my landlord would be back on june 20th to give me my lease and reciept, finally on the 19th someone comes to look at my problem and says noone should be living in my house and i tried to reach my landlord thru the number my broker gave me its disconnected i paid 4500 cash to move in i only been here 20 days and i have a sewedge problem and black mold growing in my house what can i do
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Old 06-20-2012, 05:16 PM
 
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Move and take the loss. Next time chevk out the place a bit better
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Old 06-20-2012, 05:27 PM
 
Location: Former LI'er Now Rehoboth Beach, DE
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Move and take the loss. Next time chevk out the place a bit better

Ditto, your health risk with raw sewage and black mold is not worth $4500. Move and fast.
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Old 06-21-2012, 01:07 PM
 
Location: Huntington
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First take pictures of all the issues - mold, etc. - lots of them - and then move out of there. Once you've done that, take the landlord and broker to small claims court and sue them both. If you can't find the landlord, just sue the broker, and they'll probably find the landlord for you because the broker won't want to pay the entire $4500. It may take time (think months or maybe a year because the courts are backed up), but you will get your money back or at least part of it. If you bring to court your pictures, your lease if you actually have one in hand, your cancelled checks for both the broker and rent and deposit (everything you gave them checks for) for the judge to see, the judge will rule in you favor.

Secondly, go back to school and learn to construct a sentence. I could barely understand what you were writing about. VERY difficult to read.
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Old 06-21-2012, 01:19 PM
 
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She paid cash, has no receipt for payment nor signed lease.

What I would do is go down to Town Hall and pull the property records and see who actually owns the property.

I wonder if the name would match with what she was given.

I fear her money maybe long gone. The "broker" too.
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Old 06-21-2012, 03:51 PM
 
Location: Planet Earth
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[quote=AndreaII;24844651]First take pictures of all the issues - mold, etc. - lots of them - and then move out of there. Once you've done that, take the landlord and broker to small claims court and sue them both. If you can't find the landlord, just sue the broker, and they'll probably find the landlord for you because the broker won't want to pay the entire $4500. It may take time (think months or maybe a year because the courts are backed up), but you will get your money back or at least part of it. If you bring to court your pictures, your lease if you actually have one in hand, your cancelled checks for both the broker and rent and deposit (everything you gave them checks for) for the judge to see, the judge will rule in you favor.

Secondly, go back to school and learn to construct a sentence. I could barely understand what you were writing about. VERY difficult to read.[/quote]

WOW! Why so rude, Miss Perfect???? I was able to understand what she wrote. So sorry no one is the model of perfection you are!!!!!
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Old 06-21-2012, 04:02 PM
 
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Ditto, your health risk with raw sewage and black mold is not worth $4500. Move and fast.
To some people $4500 is a lot of money.
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Old 06-21-2012, 04:28 PM
 
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First take pictures of all the issues - mold, etc. - lots of them - and then move out of there. Once you've done that, take the landlord and broker to small claims court and sue them both. If you can't find the landlord, just sue the broker, and they'll probably find the landlord for you because the broker won't want to pay the entire $4500. It may take time (think months or maybe a year because the courts are backed up), but you will get your money back or at least part of it. If you bring to court your pictures, your lease if you actually have one in hand, your cancelled checks for both the broker and rent and deposit (everything you gave them checks for) for the judge to see, the judge will rule in you favor.

Secondly, go back to school and learn to construct a sentence. I could barely understand what you were writing about. VERY difficult to read.
I was thinking the same thing- hard on the eyes. That might have been the longest run on sentence in the world. Woooo I need wine after that one.
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Old 06-21-2012, 07:00 PM
 
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To some people $4500 is a lot of money.
Uh... unless you're rich, 4500$ IS a lot of money.
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Old 06-22-2012, 11:17 AM
 
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Uh... unless you're rich, 4500$ IS a lot of money.
Or, to put it in LI CD terms, if you speak with a LI accent, $4500 is a lot of money; if you've lived on LI for an extended period of time and never even heard a LI accent, it's not.
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