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    This past weekend I was charged with helping my Girlfriend and her friend move to an apartment a block away from my house. We had to get up a bit early to move out her friend because her landlord wanted her out by 12... I knew this was breaking some rule on her lease but she agreed and we had a truck, so no big deal.

    We run into the first problem of the apartment building we were moving her out of. she lives on the 4th floor and the freight is broken... actually it's been broken for over 2 years and the landlord claims it would cost over 100k to fix it... ok.. well we will have to use the normal one. one no more than 4 people can fit in at a time. this causes us to drag most of the big things down the stairs.

    While waiting for the elevator it came up and there was an apartment worker in there. apparently sunday is the day they chuck all the garbage on the street and he was filling it up on the 3rd floor. since I called the elevator it brought him up to the 4th floor. I said "oh sorry, go ahead, we'll call it back when you're done."... but no, he flips out, takes all the garbage off the elevator and drags some kitchen appliance, by the cord, out of the elevator. banging it against doors and walls making it obvious he is mad at us. Very grown up of you. The elevator door is like a normal door so you need to open it with a nob. it swings shut and while bringing boxes in the douchenozzle doesn't even hold it open for me. I just load the boxes in without his help and comment "thanks for the help...".

    We also found out my girlfriends father, not a very smart man, hired a guy off the street to help. a guy named "poo". my girlfriend talked him into only allowing him to help her friend move her stuff into the truck and not into their new place. he is a huge idiot. yea... just hire some random guy off the street, named poo, let him see all the stuff they own and where they live on their own. real smart dumbass... Obviously I am not a fan of him.

    After finally getting her stuff out we head to my house to load up my girlfriend stuff I have been holding for her. this is when they get a phone call from their landlord at the new place saying the old tennants never cleaned up...

    A little back story to the old tennants. they had like 20 cats, never cleaned up the cat litter and left garbage everywhere. the place smelled of urin and dying animals. The landlord assured them it would be cleaned and repaired for them before moving in. Of course, the tennants didn't move out until the day before and of course they left all their shit (literally and figurativly) behind.

    When we arrived to check it out there was a plumber putting in a new oven (don't ask me) and another guy cleaning up best he could. He told us professional cleaners would come in for the next two days to clean up. of course we spotted more damage and I proceeded to take pictures for them to send to the landlord to demand them to be fixed... like the should have been a long while ago.

    This ruined our plans of course... so we brought my girlfriends friends stuff there and left my girlfriends stuff at my house. now they have to stay at my house for a couple days, leaving her friend and her cat kind of homeless with me, and they are going to rip the landlord apart today. they are part of a bigger company, so they can't afford to make my girlfriend and friend upset or they could get hit hard by the city (we have strict housing laws in philly).

    I'm just so tired...

  • #2
    Technically, when you give notice you are moving out you have until midnight of the day you are moving out. But some land lords can be dicks about it, and try to hold up your security deposit over it.

    Major suckage on the new place. I always get the keys and inspect a new apartment BEFORE I start moving my stuff in. If the apartment is not ready I either make a deal with the landlord for the extra time, or put my stuff in storage.
    They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.

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    • #3
      Aw, a couple of contract suckages there...
      First, the agreed time for leaving the old flat. Although, if your girlfriend was fine with that, OK. When I left my old flat my landlady had asked me if I could *please* vacate it by 2pm on the date we had agreed I would leave, with *please* being the key word (I was planning to leave on the previous day anyway).
      Then, the new flat being filthy. She might have gone to the length of refusing to move in and insisting that the owner pays for her accommodation and storage of her stuff until the flat was in acceptable conditions...
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      • #4
        Ugh. She's not alone. I frequently get people at my motel who have to stay there because the new place isn't ready. In fact, I had a couple just last night who were in that situation. It happens a lot.
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        • #5
          Yesterday the realty company sent cleaners to clean and inspect the apartment. my girlfriend and her "future" roommate went in to check on how things were going. the cleaning people were amazed at how bad the place was and agreed it was unacceptable that the landlord didn't give enough time inbetween the old tennants move out and their move in to fix everything. this convinced them they needed to ask for compensation for their time. I told them to ask for half a rent cut for the first month, and that was me being nice about it.

          So they printed out all the pictures I took of damage and shit (literally) and brought them to the company. when there they asked for compensation and for all the items to be fixed. they said they would have to ask the owner (I was afraid of this... its a company that works with owners of houses, not a company that actually owns the properties). they then got a call from the cleaners saying the shower head broke off while they were cleaning and the toilet was broken.... great. So they had to stay at my place for another night, and of course, her roommate was having 2 friends come down for the night for a concert, so we had even more people in my house. not their fault though, they planned that a month ago.

          today they plan to move more boxes over, and watch over the cleaning and repairs. I told them to make sure the gut the kitchen, because the damage is too severe to just nail and tack everything back up.

          they also managed to talk to their neighbors who live below them. they told them how crazy the old tennants were. how their 20 cats sounded like stampedes and that they screamed at eachother nearly every night. they were relieved to learn my GF and her friend only have one cat (whome they actually take care of) and are not crazy. lol

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          • #6
            Make sure that the cat's shots are up to date before it is taken to the new place!!! I would hate for it to get sick from the other cats.
            Last edited by pitmonkey; 08-04-2010, 12:35 AM. Reason: spelling
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            • #7
              How can *any* number of cats sound like a stampede?

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              • #8
                Quoth Chromatix View Post
                How can *any* number of cats sound like a stampede?
                Oh, if only I had a photo of Little Fat PITA-Cat. She weighed 19 pounds and thought she was a great big bulldog. She could stampede just walking across the room.
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                • #9
                  Is this a complex? Is there a reason it has to be this apartment? Because damage like that can't be fixed in a day and you don't want them to try. A friend of mine had cats who continuously missed the litter box. Cat urine is nasty stuff and actually rotted through to the underflooring. Seriously, ask them to look for something else.
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                  • #10
                    Their landlord is a total moron.

                    My aunt owns some apartments here, and the only time there's a turnaround time that short is if the previous tenants were pretty good about cleanliness, and the new tenants want to clean the place themselves for a discount on their first months rent.
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                    • #11
                      are they looking for other apartments? in a lot of states this kind of fail means if they want to break their lease they can with no repercussion.

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                      • #12
                        They are only going to pay half their rent for the first month and get an all new kitchen within a week. the painters have repainted the walls, the cleaners deep cleaned the place and it looks, and smells, much better. from the sound of the neighbors in the house turned apartment building they say the landlord is actually pretty good... just naive to think those dirtbags were actually going to do what they said they would do.

                        Philly does have VERY strict laws when it comes to housing, and since this guy is part of a realty group he will most likely try his hardest to right his wrong. because if he doesn't, I'm sure the realty group would boot him immediatly. the last thing they would want is a bad landlord in their group.

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                        • #13
                          Quoth Chromatix View Post
                          How can *any* number of cats sound like a stampede?
                          Believe me, even one cat can sound like a stampede. Ever see that thing cats do where they go "zero to nuts in four seconds" and just take off running for no reason apparent to a human? My tenants upstairs have one cat, and sometimes late at night I hear her galloping around like a madcat, chasing things that only she can see. And there is wall to wall carpet up there; I can't imagine what it would sound like if the floors were bare wood.

                          (I don't have any problem with this, it even makes me smile when I hear it. I'm OK with cats; if I wasn't allergic to the damn things I'd have one myself. Every time I visit my sister I spend time playing with her cats and then sneeze like a meshuggener the rest of the day.)

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                          • #14
                            There's a certain area in my hallway that makes Ruby sound like a herd when she runs. And she only weighs 6 or 7 pounds.
                            I'm bringing disdain back...with a vengeance.

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                            • #15
                              Did they rip up all the carpet and check the floors? If the person had multiple cats using the floor as a bathroom, it might have damaged the flooring UNDER the carpet. Once its in the wood, it never goes away.
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