My current landlord had their agent give me the lease to sign and then they would have two weeks to decide if they wanted out of it. After I already moved in! The agent said he would provide me with a copy and the keys to the apartment. He did neither.
They had given him the wrong lease and In May they wanted a new lease signed. Problem! I was not willing to sign a lease that said that I would take everything as is. New developments in the badly managed apartment. The bathroom wall had been taken down, the door had been left open. The wall they shoddily put up was not caulked and the toilet that they claimed had to be turned off so it would not flood did not work.
It took me 9 months, count them, to get the landlord to fix the toilet. I had to drag the super in by his ear to get it fixed. The refrigerator was not working either. I had to prepare a brief for the D.A. and tell them by 5:00pm or this goes to the D.A.
Yeah so what happened to that lease?
The boys came over to hussle me a bit but being a princess I was not hussleable :)
They promised about 10 tasks that they never intended to keep once out of my spell.
The next day I received a lease of which unitialed pages had been changed. The first two pages had rent changes to the landlord's benefit. They had a page that said they could end the lease whenever they wanted with four months notice upon which they would pay me a month's rent and my two month's deposit back in full. That wasn't there before.
Their lease is a wacky instrument and I think it would get a fail in court. It is page numbered consecutively with the last page having both parties signature. Problem is that signature does not have a single paragraph stating what the signature means. Yes I would say that lease is cultish.
However, though it be true I am in a most vulnerable state that's why they have been able to exploit me to the fullest of their extent not the law, I don't mind giving them some legal trouncing. After all they lose when they try to bounce me out.
I mean do you know anyone who wants to live in an infinitetestimally small apartment with one window, a dark room. Next to apartment frequents a musician for practice, radio program playing and commercial endeavors. His father owns the apartment. A musician who plays the radio blastingly even though I asked them to turn it down ever so politely one evening after 10pm. They play the same chord over repetitively as if it were right in front of my ear for 6 hours in a row. Band practice at 1am-5am on a weekday anyone? A tenant below who has charcoal hamburgers about three times a week enough to keep your clothes, belongings and lungs smothered continuously. Almost every tenant in this building owns a dog. The way they clean the carpeting in the building is with a broom and a dust pan. Imagine all the dander and fleas and tics being splayed about. Did I mention they had a bed bug infestation in this apartment and the building and did not inspect to see if everything was ok? That the tenant above me pees all over their apartment and it drips into this apartment. I caught it recently and the fire department was called.
Yeah do you know anyone who would be willing to pay $1100 a month auto payment deduction mandatory for this piece of junk between York and 1st, a 15 minute walk to the subway?
I thought not.
