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The Rental Drama Continues

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I can't believe none of them have paid still. It is the isngle most frustrating experience of my life. This Cuban woman loves to maniacally bargain and she will do anything to put herself in a bargaining situation. Originally the rent was $600 and she bargaining down to $550. Woo the hell bargains in America. Maybe I should try it more often. Anyways, I have no interest with meeting with her to discuss it. I want my money now or I want them out. Imagine if when things were really broken I said, well I will meet with you to discuss fixing it next week and then we can bargain.

Anyone know how to evict someone or have any experience with this? This is my first time.

Paul,
you have the arregement with mandee and cathy!---I don't know what are you talking about???
Tenant



Tenant,
Mandu no longer lives there. She only had a contract through January and you have known that for months. We have discussed this multiple times that you are responsible for maintaining roommates to pay to additional rent.

We currently have no contract as you and cathy never gave me back a copy of the signed lease.

If you cannot maintain paying the full rent of $550 between you and
whatever roommates you have then you will have to leave. Like I said
please make plans to leave the property in 30 days (feb 14th) if you
cannot comply with paying the entire rent.

I have no interest in bargaining on this issue. I had already reduced the rent to $600 from $550 for you guys. Either pay the full $550 or leave as
I am not renting a three bedroom apartment for $183 or $367.

Paul

Paul
It would be better to meet each other and discuss about this misunderstanding. This should not be discuss by email. I meet you at the appartment next friday at 10 pm
Tenant


Tenant
Who do you think you are to dictate when I will meet with you and how we will communicate. I have no interest in meeting with you or discussing the issue any further. There is no misunderstanding and no bargaining. You have totally disrespected me at this point by making me wait so long for the rent and making me come check on it so many times this month.

You are seriously overdue on rent and I am not obligated to pick it up. That apartment costs $550 per month. I don't care how you split it up amoungst your roomates. By law you are able to have two other roomates because it is a 3 bedroom apartment. I explained in the lease that it is $550 for 1 person, $275 each for 2 people, or $183 each for three people.

I am not renting you a 3 bedroom apartment right next to school for $183 per month.

I expect the rent in full tomorrow thats $550 and I don't care how you split that up with other tenant or whoever you have as a third roommate. If you cannot comply I would begin to look for another place of residence immediately.

Paul Visco
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💬 5 comments

  1. leetee ·

    I wish i could help you out Paul... but i have never been a landlord either. @uncutsaniflush and i thought about it when we first moved to Buffalo and found there were a ton of doubles on the market... but that is so another story. The problem you are having is the reason i didn't want to go into that racket.

    From the emails, it sounds like the tennant you have feels like she(?) can bargain with you or that you will give in to what she wants if she waits you out.

    Send her a certified letter saying the whole rent needs to be in your hands, by whatever method SHE decides (in other words, you will not go get it), by a specific date or all tennants will have to vacate. I think that would be the legal way to do it...

  2. uncutsaniflush ·

    my only experience with eviction was in Manhattan's Landlord-Tenant court in the 1980s when I worked for developer/contractor.

    But, I think I knew a few things that might help.

    If no one has a lease, you should be able to give them 30 days notice to leave without going to court because they are considered "month-to-month" tenants and in most places 30 days notice is the statutory requirement.

    If they don't leave after 30 days, you can go to court because they are a "holdover" (or at least that's what they called it in NYC) with no right to live in the apartment.

    In Manhattan's LT court, it was much easier to get rid of a tenant as a "holdover" than to actually get an official eviction.

  3. uncutsaniflush ·

    oh, yeah. one more thing that i just remembered. as ass-backwards as it sounds, in some place, (i have no idea if Buffalo is one of them), if you try to evict a tenant for non-payment of rent, you can't evict them if they pay any rent after you started the eviction process.

    And @leetee is right about documenting about using certified mail - you want to document everything so that you can prove that you gave adequate notice to your tenants.

    and they refuse the certified letter, you are still ok legally because you have proof that you tried to serve them notice.

  4. hodown ·

    Holy Crap, I can't believe this. Man if they pulled that anywhere else they'd be out with the swiftness! Do you need some Ho power?

  5. pyrcedgrrl ·

    I used to be a process server. If you need someone to pretend to be a delivery person and had the paperwork over I might be able to get it over there for ya. :D

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