If your tenancy was started or extended on or after March 20, 2019, your landlord may also have a legal responsibility to ensure your home is fit for life. This is called “fit for human habitation.” Thank you for all the advice! In the end, we were ghosted by the 1st potential tenant after several failures at background checks. A few days later, another good adjustment came and signed within the allotted time. They`ve been perfect so far, so in the end everything works, I think. The terms of your current lease determine whether you need to specify a specific timeframe before moving. Most leases require the tenant to give at least one month`s notice before leaving the unit. Some require a longer period of time, by . B 60 or 90 days in advance. Don`t sign too far in advance for a rental home, otherwise you could be responsible for paying rent for two units. How should we enter a start date for a lease that is subject to approval by a condominium corporation, which can take one to two weeks? Should we use a particular date about two weeks in the future or is there a way to make it dependent on the condominium corporation approval date? Even if I sign a lease but the condominium corporation does not approve it, is it still a valid and legally binding document on my site? Thank you! The rental agreement is a form of consumer agreement and, as such, it must be written in simple, clear and easy-to-understand language. It must not contain terms that could be “unfair”.

This means, for example, that the lease cannot put you or your landlord at a disadvantage, allow a party to unilaterally change the terms without a valid reason, or irrevocably bind you to clauses that you have not had time to familiarize yourself with. An unfair term is not legally valid and cannot be enforced. 48 hours seems right to me. If they don`t sign within this specified time, remind them that they must sign, and if they don`t respond, continue. If they respond and say they need more time, let them know they need to sign it via EOD. If they don`t do it by then, go ahead so you don`t get caught up in the waiting game. Hello Nickey, a lease requires signatures and an end date, but the start date is not necessary to make a lease valid. Your occupation began when you received the keys that gave you access to the house.

Move-in date 12-10-19. The housing authority accepted my proof of danger to health, indicating the moving date 11-30-20. Apartment wants me to be prorated 12-1-20 to 12-09-20, December monthly insurance, monthly pet fees, 2 months of utility water and other things associated with this water bill, but not electrically I pay this as my monthly bill, the severity of the health was really less attentive, I asked, as they had already typed the move-in date 12-10-19 move-in date 11-30-20 on the lease, Does this mean I always pay for December? They said I had to pay, but what surprised them was the moving date when they put 11-30-20 on my lease. Like everyone else, I had to deal with so many things that I dealt with from the beginning and prayed that they would not allow me to pay anything for December because I left and paid rent all the month of November. They stated that I had falsified the lease, they sent me a lease in which it was typed as they had specified 12-10-19 to 12-9-20. My grandson and I kept looking at his lease so confused. Then we notice that the date they gave me the lease was the date 11-19-19 and what they sent was December 11, 2019, our initials were not ours, our signatures were not ours, the representative who signed my original, that the signature was not on it and that she is still working on it. I searched on the site and found nothing in my favor, I am handicapped not to pay money as you can see my dilemma. I pray, but of course, how can I deal with it? They don`t know it`s known.

I thought about calling the non-emergency police. What can I do for their lies and scams? Thank you all and have a great weekend. . Your landlord may charge a fee for changing your lease. They can only charge you if you have requested the change. If your landlord charges you for a change you didn`t request, you can claim the money or report it to Trading Standards. Hi Pete, I was able to find the Virginia Condominium Act, but I`m not sure it will answer your question. Article § 55.1-1973 refers to the rental of dwellings.

While it states that the owner of the unit may be required to give the association the tenant`s contact information and signed acknowledgment of the rules and regulations, it does not explicitly say that he or she cannot ask the tenant for a copy of the lease. This seems like a gray area, and you might want to get legal advice on the subject from someone familiar with Virginia`s condominium and rent laws. It is more difficult to prove what has been agreed if it is not in writing. This is because there is often no evidence of what was agreed, or there may have been a specific issue that the agreement did not cover. You may also be able to prove what has been agreed in other ways – for example, with emails or text messages. My boyfriend and I asked for a rental house, but we were rejected because he had an old debt to an apartment complex from 2012. I then applied for rent and was approved, but was told I had to sign a waiver stating that he would not live with me. What happens if I sign this waiver and he moves in? In this case, the rules of the law prevail over the agreement – unless the difference is in your favor as a tenant. If you signed a rental agreement and when signing the lease, you reserved a parking space (and paid extra for the reserved space) in order to be able to park in your apartment.

When moving in, parking spaces were not available and the leasing company does nothing to provide parking spaces. It`s been a month and they keep telling us they`re going to get there, but in the meantime we don`t have space to park the car, so we can`t use the apartment. FYI. It is a university town and parking is limited. It`s a parking garage and they could close the door and only allow residents who have reserved spaces to park, but they haven`t closed the garage door and don`t pull the cars parked there that haven`t paid for the spaces. Remember that the potential tenant has already accepted the basic conditions, rent amount, etc. and has the lease, but for some reason does not sign it. It is only reasonable to do this if everyone agrees, and the only thing left is to sign the lease. In this case, the tenant claimed compensation for this discrimination.

The court ordered the landlord to pay him $550 in compensation (as well as additional compensation for other reasons) and said the landlord`s termination to end the tenancy was legally invalid – meaning the tenant was allowed to stay in the apartment. If I have a vacant house or a house where the current tenant will not renew their lease and a potential tenant (who passes the credit and background checks) says they want to rent it out, then we agree on the rent, lease start date and other basic terms, etc., I prepare a lease (using the Avail system) and send it to them. In the meantime, if another tenant comes and the first prospect has not yet signed the lease, I will tell the first interested party (usually by SMS) that I have another tenant who wants the house, and if I do not hear from the first tenant in a few hours, I will send him a lease to sign. I advise them to sign the lease quickly because I have another tenant who is interested but who is not moving forward. .