Community Vent/Rant Thread...Let 'er Rip!

[Wyldfire]

Wyldfire, I'm curious, what possible legal recourse do you have? This is what you get when you move in without a lease. A lease protects the tenant as much as the landlord. You paid for this month, and that is a valid contract. But as soon as that 30 days expires, can he have you ejected as a trespasser or does he have to go through the formal process of legal eviction?

You are in NH, right?
http://www.federalrealestate.net/laws/nh.html

Nope, I moved to Maine from Vermont. I already have a lawyer. He's on the board of the MSBA and has been in practice since 1977. Doesn't look like I'm going to need his services now...but he's on standby as long as I need him to be. Thank God the landlord's wife is a reasonable and logical woman. She's liked me a lot since I first looked at the apartment. She is the one I usually deal with but the realtor has been calling her husband and by-passing her, which is what seems to have led to all this nonsense.

I prefer not having a lease...because I don't want to be tied to the place...especially with a sale in the works. School will be out before the sale is final and it'll give me some time to figure out if the new owner is someone I want to rent from. I've had completely psycho landlords before...one used to trespass in the middle of the night. That's par for the course as a single mother. Landlords think they can walk all over you just because there's no man around. One thing to my advantage is that when someone tries to scare or intimidate me it just pisses me off, so the ones who try that usually only do it once. Being smart helps, too.

Hopefully now my only need to rant will be that biotch next door but I've been told they are moving soon anyhow. Here's hoping for a new neighbor who minds their own goddamned business! Cheers...

Oh...he has to go through proper legal channels and get a writ of possession after giving a 30 day notice. If I were to file an answer (which I would if I had to) the absolute earliest he could LEGALLY make me move would be about June 16th. Since I haven't actually done anything wrong, if I chose to ask the judge to let me stay for longer I could probably get that request granted. I had a similar thing happen to me with the trespassing landlord. My little one was a toddler and we lived upstairs from him. He knew she was going to make some noise when she got walking...but went nutty over not much noise. I even put mats down to try to appease him. He took my rent money, refused me a receipt and informed me he was going to "get me for non-payment of rent" because that's the only way he could make me leave quickly. Dumb ass said that in front of a witness and I represented myself in court and won...3 months of free rent and he got his arse chewed by the judge big time, lol. I don't take kindly to anyone trying to screw me over just because they think they can get away with it. I'm just as stubborn and tenacious in real life as I am on here...when I have to be.

 

[STR8UP]

That's par for the course as a single mother. Landlords think they can walk all over you just because there's no man around.

Careful with the generalizations there, firebritches.

 

[Wyldfire]

Careful with the generalizations there, firebritches.

It's true in my experience, unfortunately. That being said...I don't think they intentionally do it. Even the landlord who did it the least still did it...they were offering these "enrichment" classes directed at single mothers to help them make resumes, learn to interview, that kinda stuff. I was working full time 3rd shift for the best employer in the county making really good money...better than they paid their office staff, lol. I slept during the day while my kids were in school. They were trying to pressure me into taking the damn class even though I know how to make a resume, have NEVER not gotten a job I interviewed for and was already employed in the best possible place I could be. They said I should take the class because it was for "people like me", lol. I was like...what the hell is that supposed to mean? They said, ya know...single mothers. I had to remind them that I made more than all their employees and got better benefits as well plus profit sharing...so I didn't need the class just because I'm a single mom. The bias and stereotyping is awful. The vast majority of landlords will behave towards single mothers in a way they would never dream of dealing with a man. But again...many of them don't even notice they are doing it...so it's not mean spirited or anything most of the time.

 

[Bible_Belt]

I understand you're upset, but I think he is within his legal rights to do what he has done. It's his house, and you moved in with no lease. There is no law that requires him to treat you with politeness and respect. You are lucky that he is not playing hardball with you. If he really wanted you out, he can make life hard on you until you leave. He could decide that now is a great time to do renovations to the house, as one example. If you had planned on not living there long, then you are getting what you wanted. But what I hope most people learn from this is that when they meet some nice people who say something like, "oh, we trust you. We don't need a lease." That means that they can kick you out, usually with only 30 days notice.

I'd guess that the foremost reason that you don't get along with your landlord is that tenants have treated him badly in the past and landlords have treated you badly in the past. Landlords and tenants often treat each other poorly for this reason.

 

[Wyldfire]

I understand you're upset, but I think he is within his legal rights to do what he has done. It's his house, and you moved in with no lease. There is no law that requires him to treat you with politeness and respect. You are lucky that he is not playing hardball with you. If he really wanted you out, he can make life hard on you until you leave. He could decide that now is a great time to do renovations to the house, as one example. If you had planned on not living there long, then you are getting what you wanted. But what I hope most people learn from this is that when they meet some nice people who say something like, "oh, we trust you. We don't need a lease." That means that they can kick you out, usually with only 30 days notice.

I'd guess that the foremost reason that you don't get along with your landlord is that tenants have treated him badly in the past and landlords have treated you badly in the past. Landlords and tenants often treat each other poorly for this reason.

See, the weird thing is that I always HAVE gotten along with them great. No previous problems at all. The wife and I sorted it out and the problem is a serious breakdown in communication in the realtor's office. They have an unprofessional receptionist that isn't relaying messages properly and is just basically totally misrepresenting the truth. I suspect that might even be why the house didn't sell to one of the other people who looked at it, too. Some were really interested. Even the wife said the realtor was getting him riled up and she knew that something had to be screwy because I don't at all act the way her husband was being told that I was acting.

Anyhow...they're not asking me to move anymore and said they already told the realtor that it will be up to whoever buys it to either do a lease or give us the notice. I just want to get through the school year and was planning on moving to the next town anyhow...so a lease will just force me to commit to stay here when I want to move anyhow. I just want to move after school ends.

 

[diplomatic_lies]

Annoying things in life:

-Real estate agents
-Rich kids who've never worked in their life, expect everything on a silver platter, not knowing how hard their parents worked for that money
-People who put you down for being successful at anything, and attribute it to "luck" (last time I heard, nobody was ever born an expert at anything)

 

[Ever onward]

-Rich kids who've never worked in their life, expect everything on a silver platter, not knowing how hard their parents worked for that money
-People who put you down for being successful at anything, and attribute it to "luck" (last time I heard, nobody was ever born an expert at anything)
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Co-signed

 

[jackie_legs]

I cant find a f*cking job.

and My life is the same every f*cking day.

 

[jackie_legs]

I cant find a f*cking job.

and My life is the same every f*cking day.

 

[penkitten]

i think i have post tubal ligation syndrome and it sucks. i would go to my dr but i think he caused it. so he sucks.
i would pick another, but i cant take off work because the kids keep using all my sick time and i want to keep a few days to be paid during the honeymoon .
blah@

 

[Soprano]

Whaddy'a mean nothing you can do about it?


Build a shed

i can't move out of this country right now