New baby! (lease, tenants, rentals, house)

[jaredC]

Hello all! So my wife and I are expecting our first child on July 20th. I forgot to let my PM know of her getting pregnant. We live in AZ. I looked at my lease and didn't see anything on it covering this. I was going to let my PM know earlier, but life happens. I was so swamped in work and just dealing with household stuff.

So, in AZ, can my PM raise the rent? Or take any action against us?

[tworent]

no unless it's an adult community zoned over 55

[jaredC]

Originally Posted by tworent

no unless it's an adult community zoned over 55

Nope. Not a retirement community. Lol

[Katie1]

I believe the PM has figured it out Just send a card when the babys born

[JONOV]

Originally Posted by jaredC

So, in AZ, can my PM raise the rent? Or take any action against us?

Doing so would be Expressly prohibited by fair housing laws as far as I know.
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/docu...=DOC_35681.pdf

The only possible exception would be violating occupancy rules, but that would be hard with 3 people.

[jaredC]

Originally Posted by JONOV

Doing so would be Expressly prohibited by fair housing laws as far as I know.
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/docu...=DOC_35681.pdf

The only possible exception would be violating occupancy rules, but that would be hard with 3 people.

Nope. It's a 1500 sf 3bd room house.

[beera]

Why would the PM need to know you had a baby anyways? Specially for a 3 bedroom house?

I moved into a two bedroom, got pregnant 2 months later, my DS is now almost a year, still haven't formally told the LL I have a son now.

[AZ Manager]

Originally Posted by beera

Why would the PM need to know you had a baby anyways? Specially for a 3 bedroom house?

I moved into a two bedroom, got pregnant 2 months later, my DS is now almost a year, still haven't formally told the LL I have a son now.

Because they do, insurance reasons and the like. It's not hard to notify them you are adding an occupant.

[lkmax]

I would just call the landlord and say, "Hey, just wanted to let you know that there is going to be another occupant in the house! We're having a baby!"

Landlord will probably say congratulations and so on and so forth, but that should be it.

Rent should not be raised, nothing should be different in regards to your renting situation, but everything else in your life is about to be very different.

[Electrician4you]

Originally Posted by jaredC

Hello all! So my wife and I are expecting our first child on July 20th. I forgot to let my PM know of her getting pregnant. We live in AZ. I looked at my lease and didn't see anything on it covering this. I was going to let my PM know earlier, but life happens. I was so swamped in work and just dealing with household stuff.

So, in AZ, can my PM raise the rent? Or take any action against us?

There is no action nor can your rent be raised because of a baby. I had two different tenants in two different rentals who had two kids while renting from me. Each time my wife brought baby gifts. And we were happy for them. It's a baby. The most they can do is throw up on the carpet

Btw congratulations.