Edit: Turns out someone at the main office fucked up and sent that email out when they don’t do occupied showings. Fuckers nearly gave me a panic attack. This definitely lit a fire under my ass though and I appreciate the comments some of y’all left greatly.
Just got an email from the management company for my girlfriend’s and my apartment saying they were gonna do a showing tomorrow morning (which is less than 24hrs away but that’s a separate issue i emailed them back about).
This is the first place the both of us have actually rented. Is this usually a sign that we’re on the way out? I’m like genuinely freaking out because I have $500 in my account (which is about to get eaten by my car note and my insurance payment) and my job cut all of our hours to 6hrs a day for the first two weeks back after new years. I’m completely unready to find a new place and I’m getting real close to losing it.
Our lease ran out in November and I don’t think we got the option to renew it (or we did and since my girlfriend, my roommate and I are all pretty fuckin ADHD, we just forgot to look at it), so we’re month to month atm.
I really don’t know what to do or what i’m going to do if this happens.
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check your respective state’s rental/tenancy laws, it could ‘just’ be they’re trying to sell it rather than find new tenants. In my country the law differs per state, but some states do have protections around current tenancies and transfer of ownership.
Also check when you can to see there hasn’t been another lease offer you’ve overlooked. Fingers crossed for you
Usually you need an official notice to quit, especially if you’ve been continuing to pay rent even at the previous rate (depending on your state, hellworld). In the US at least rental assistance funds are often gatekept by that exact notice too.
I would check with the management company to see if there’s some way to renew the existing lease.
There’s a frustrating lack of information around tenancy and it sucks how much it varies state to state. It creates a real power imbalance between landlord and tenant. Many property management companies are extremely exploitative and will pile on bullshit fees and intimidate people into paying them.
Yeah I’ll definitely see what we can do. Thank you for the advice!
Usually they have to give you 30 days notice. On a month-to-month lease. You should check with the management company about if a rental offer was sent ASAP if you aren’t behind on your lease.
This is state specific. 30 days is actually on the high end.
Yes, absolutely.
Read your lease. Read the state laws. Read about your local judge.
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Who’s your management company?
Probably yes, assuming they are saying they are going to show your apartment.
Showing an apartment to prospective renters is as far as I know a legal prerequisite any landlord must perform before renting out an apartment to a tenant, so yes your landlord is looking to evict ya’ll and replace you with whoever will be viewing the apartment.
Depending on the state and/or country you live in, you should contact a tenants right group /ASAP - Immediately/ for advice and information on how the legal process of eviction works where you are.
If you are lucky, the landlord has not yet actually initiated the legal process of evicting you, assuming such a process even exists where you are for month to month leases.
I am not familiar with how the specifics of this work if you all simply forgot to renew to lease and are now month to month, the technicals of all of that vary widely from state to state amd city to city in the US.
A local tenants rights group is what you want to find. If your are given a number or organization to contact by your landlord, probably disregard this unless there are no local tenants rights group, landlords usually list ‘helpful’ organizations that will either outright lie to you or will leave out vast amounts of relevant information that could help you, and/or waste your time when you likely have very little to spare.
You need copies of both the original yearly lease you signed, ideally all the month to month leases ya’ll signed, and you again need to contact a local tenants rights organization ASAP.
If you are lucky there may be some technicality that the landlord fucked up on that you can use to stall for time and if very lucky be able to get connected to and qualify for a local rental assistance program from a nearby non profit.
Otherwise, if you are on a month to month, generally the way those work legally is that the landlord is under little to no legal obligation to continue to offer any such tenants a renewal for the next monthly period should they choose not to, unless, again, you are lucky and there is some specific law preventing this where you are that specifically applies to your situation.
I hope you are lucky.
- Signed, someone who was recently evicted and made homeless by a criminal landlord.
