Lease Renewal Question. (apartment, good credit, tenants)

[KANGER]

I think my landlord is trying to pull a fast one on my roommates and I.

There are 3 of us in the apartment and all 3 of us are signed to the lease.

The lease is up Oct 1st and the landlord is asking us to resign it.

One of our roommates has decided to move - the rest of us are staying.

But after finding out that one of our roommates is going to move out, the landlord wants to rewrite the entire lease and have us go through complete credit checks, even though we have signed the lease previously without any background check.

The landlord only made us aware of this change on September 4th - Less than 30 days before the renewal is due.

The landlord also did not send us a lease renewal 90 days before the lease was to expire even though we have asked for it repeatedly. She has only called us with verbal reminders to sign it but had failed to give it to us until September 4th.

Now she is claiming that this is a brand new lease and not a renewal at all.

What can be done here? Has she broken any renter's laws?

All we want to do is resign the lease and move on with our lives.

BTW - We have been living at the apt for the past 3 years. We have renewed our lease twice before without any problems.

[cleasach]

I don't know what the deal is with the less than 30 days before the old lease is up but the LL may be asking for a credit check because they want to make sure that the two remaining tenants can pay the rent without the third.

[danameless]

I'm not a landlord or know the rules, but I don't think the landlord is doing anything wrong. I think this would be a new lease since the number of tenants changes from 3 to 2. I would think that a re-newal would mean that everything remains the same on the previous lease, but that is not the case here. And as cleasach has mentioned, the landlord probably wants to make sure that your still able to pay the rent now that your one income short. Your credit/income might have been good 3 years ago, but a lot has changed in 3 years.

I'm assuming the only difference in the new lease and the previous one would be the names of the tenants, but I would double-check that to be sure. Otherwise, it doesn't sound like any laws are broken.

[Jdawg8181]

if you have a good credit and a solid income, you have nothing to worry about then...