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When is your rent due, on the first of each month? If so, then you are late if you didn't finish paying for October yet. Then they could legally evict and also give bad reference for being late.
When applying to other places, don't say anything bad about the aunt. Landlords can turn you down over badmouthing your current/former landlord. They will assume you will do same with them and it's a red flag for a problem tenant. Just tell them the landlord is moving back from their travel job and needs the home back for landlord to live in. Don't talk about the aunt's medications or the fact that they come into the garage or the fact that she got the lease at a store. None of that matters and it actually makes you look like a problem tenant that is trying to paint landlord badly in a lame attempt to cover tenant's flaws. I am not saying this is the case here. But that's what many bad tenants do and landlords can see through it.
Last edited by sware2cod; 10-21-2013 at 09:15 AM..
The main sentence that sticks with me "as a leasing agent in a former life"....why did you sign the paper and did you forget everything from being a leasing agent in a former life...
Once it was acceptable to both parties at the table, we signed it-we had no where to go that would accept pets and I had a job interview in a nearby town. We had been looking for 6 weeks for a place at that time.
Better start packing.
The rest is a soap opera about technicalities.
we have and I agree. She wants to press her rights as a landlord to come off as threatening, is my guess. Otherwise she wouldn't feel the need to bring us a filled out document?
Mike has written a letter stating our rights as a tenant in accordance to Michigan law that states we refute the termination in 2 weeks and are allowed 30 days. He explained that we needed to write something and send to her as a rebuttal to cover ourselves in the event we can't find a place in two weeks.
When is your rent due, on the first of each month? If so, the you are late if you didn't finish paying for October yet. Then they could legally evict and also give bad reference for being late.
When applying to other places, don't say anything bad about the aunt. Landlords can turn you down over badmouthing your current/former landlord. They will assume you will do same with them and it's a red flag for a problem tenant. Just tell them the landlord is moving back from their travel job and needs the home back for landlord to live in. Don't talk about the aunt's medications or the fact that they come into the garage or the fact that she got the lease at a store. None of that matters and it actually makes you look like a problem tenant that is trying to paint landlord badly in a lame attempt to cover tenant's flaws. I am not saying this is the case here. But that's what many bad tenants do and landlords can see through it.
thanks for the advice.
In regards to the split rent this month-they refused to put any utilities in our names. They didn't want the hassle of transferring anything and that was o.k with us. We lived here June, July, August, and used the air conditioner on and off, but it didn't raise our electric bill by much. Maybe $80-$165, still budgetable.
Then come September we receive a bill for $415. Not budgetable. We immediately called aunt and uncle and asked if they could come over and check out the house to see if something was going on that we didn't account for. They blew us off.
We called the electric company to work out a payment plan but they wouldn't help us because we're not the ones on the account. We kept the LLs in the loop but they never returned our calls.
Uncle shows up to the garage out of the blue two weeks ago and we hand him the electric bill. We told him in order to pay this up we can't pay rent for October. He found the issue was the water pump out back. He then explains that this happens a lot and taught Mike how to fix it and keep an eye on it.
would have been useful to know this when we moved in.
So we asked him if we could split rent for October to accommodate the electric bill. Verbal agreement was made that we could do that to get caught up.
Auntie didn't like it I guess. Haven't seen uncle since, just her through all of this.
So Oct. 15th came and time to pay the other half of rent. That was the same day we were "served" with our walking papers.
As far as bad mouthing, we don't do that about former bosses or LL's. It's just immature and we try to stay positive. I could care less about her bad references. We lived with family and have plenty of other wonderful landlords that will give us glowing references, that are also NOT family.
.......................................we owe for the rest of this month's rent and utilities but we won't pay because we will be broke AND homeless ..............
Would you like to have me explain it to you? You were given a 2 month notice to move and you then did not pay the rent, which changes it to an eviction if you don't pay within 72 hours.
I don't think the aunt is the problem here, except that she violated the rule to never rent to friends or family.
Mike has written a letter stating our rights as a tenant in accordance to Michigan law that states we refute the termination in 2 weeks and are allowed 30 days.
^^30 day notice applies if rent is paid on time. If your rent is late, they can move along with eviction proceedings instead of waiting for the 30 days to pass. You might get a notice to pay or quit any day. If you don't pay rent by the days given in that notice (usually 3 days), then official eviction paperwork can be started with the court. This causes major problems with getting future rentals and also can have a negative effect on future employment also. You do NOT want them to file eviction paperwork. Do everything you can to prevent that since it will stay with you for many years into the future.
Just to clear up a misconception, evictions do NOT show up on credit reports. If you have a civil judgement for monetary damages entered against you, THAT can show up on your credit, but it has to get that far first, and it can be dealt with and removed after the fact. Also, it will only show basic facts like the Plaintiff and amount. They won't be able to discern from a credit report whether the action was on an eviction or just a general debt.
Also, contrary to popular belief, a judgement on your credit report is generally not going to prove much of a hinderance to employment except in cases of where you are looking for employment in fairly high level positions dealing with money and/or requiring security clearances.
Just to clear up a misconception, evictions do NOT show up on credit reports. If you have a civil judgement for monetary damages entered against you, THAT can show up on your credit, but it has to get that far first, and it can be dealt with and removed after the fact. Also, it will only show basic facts like the Plaintiff and amount. They won't be able to discern from a credit report whether the action was on an eviction or just a general debt.
Also, contrary to popular belief, a judgement on your credit report is generally not going to prove much of a hinderance to employment except in cases of where you are looking for employment in fairly high level positions dealing with money and/or requiring security clearances.
But they do show up on a background check. For $29.45 the service I last used provides Premium Screening = Nationwide criminal search, sex offender, SSN validation, Death Index check, address history, TransUnion Credit Report, FICO Credit Score, Nationwide Eviction Search.
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