no brah, I saw all that.
You have been really vague though.
I am wondering if the check ended up in a wrong account.
You have posted up a lot of noise to the signal and this is not a hobby of mine so I am confused.
My post should set you straight.
huh? What exactly am I being vague about? I posted word for word the text exchanges. I explained that we were in the process already of looking for a new home which would mean we would break the lease early.
This situation is just the cherry on top.
I'll explain our situation with the home and LL with some pictures as well. This is going to be long.......
My wife and I purchased a condo back in 2006 since then we outgrew it. We now have 2 kids and looked to sell it. Thanks to the housing bubble burst we weren't able to sell our home and did not want to do a short sale or just walk away and have it go into foreclosure.
We decided to rent the condo out and in the mean time look for a place to rent ourselves. After seeing around 25 different homes and apartments we narrowed it down to 2. We ultimately picked this house because it was on an acre of land, had tons of storage a basement that could become an office/man cave, a pool and a playground that would be nice for our kids. The LL had the same setup of kids as us - a older boy and a girl. None of the rooms would need to be painted, etc.
This is the picture from the rental ad
In the meantime we found a nice lady to rent our condo. She wanted to move in on July 1 which meant we had to be in our new place before then. So during our negotiations we had to be in by June 30 the latest. The LL said they were going on vacation that week and it was going to be tough for them. The LL did assure me that it would work so we signed on with them. The LL did say that they were in a similar situation. They were renting this home to us, renting a place of their own while their new home was being built. They asked if they could just store a couple of things in the basement (golden tee arcade machine) and a treadmill until their new house was completed in May. We didn't seem to have any issues with that because #1 I loved playing GT in college and thought it'd be cool when I had friends over and #2 my wife wanted to work out after our baby was born.
Fast forward to move in day. I stayed with our movers at the condo to assist them in getting everything into the truck. My wife (being 8 months pregnant) went to the house to clean it since it was going to be empty. When she arrived the LL and his wife were still there packing up. My wife was trying to clean as the LL & wife were leaving but it was impossible. They were never able to get everything out by the time our movers arrived. Our stuff get mixed with their things, etc. To make matters worse, the LL's brother in law was living in the basement and he had NOTHING packed. He didn't hire movers and was trying to get things out and loaded up his tiny Jeep wrangler that probably could fit 3 boxes at a time.
Garbage on side of house
Eventually the LL & wife got most of their things out of the house by 8pm or so. They left all their garbage on the side of the house and left their fridge filled with food. We asked them what was going on with the food and they said we can keep whatever we wanted. They left the garbage for us saying they didn't want to leave it by the curb all weekend long.
Now, when I talked to our lawyer he asked why did we "accept" the house with all of this going on. We explained that our tenant was moving into our home the following day and that would leave us with no place to go and a truck full of our things. Ultimately the LL left us in a shitty situation by agreeing to be out of the house and not being able to fulfill that agreement. So the basement was filled not only with the golden tee and tread mill but with tons of their things. It probably took a month for them to get everything out.
So we are in the house a couple of days and I went to the backyard and see that they let it go. They left rusted, broken lawn furniture laying around. They had a bike with no tires thrown in the woods, a pile of wood by the house that was infested with insects and the pool area was like Jurassic Park.
Before
After
I asked the LL what he planned to do with the furniture. It wasn't like it could be used. You would put a paperclip on it and the furniture would crumble. He eventually called a got junk company and they came and got it. However, he left the wood. I asked what the wood was for and he said it was used for a fire pit that he took with him to his new home. He told me to get rid of the wood if I didn't want it there.
After my daughter was born in August I had some free time to get in the backyard and start to weed out the pool area in hopes to get it ready for the following summer (2012). It took a couple weeks but I got everything nice and clean.