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No, Now is NOT a good time!
Posted by Anok • 7/23/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: landlords, realtors
What is so hard to understand about a 24 hour notice policy? This is the third time now that the realtor has given me just a few hours notice before a showing - and the last time the agent showed up almost 45 minutes early!
I told her no, it' snot enough notice. They can look at the empty property, but I'm not running around preparing the unit and changing our entire schedule for the day at the last minute so people can poke around my unit. I called the landlord to complain about the lack of notice, and she's all "well you can't say no! We have to show it!"
Uhm, no, actually I don't have to say yes. I'm dealing with some other things today that must be dealt with, and had I been alerted yesterday the emergency problems today wouldn't be such a big deal because other things would have been dealt with yesterday making today easier. But as it stands, I'm not going to do it! I don't feel well, I have other things that need addressing and no, people cannot just drop by anygoddamned time they please on me, it's not reasonable!
Quite frankly, I don't give a damn about the landlord's needs right now. I.Don't.Care. It's a major inconvenience to me, it puts me in a bad situation all around, and all because she was irresponsible. I paid my rent on time every month for the last three years - this is not my problem. I don't give a rat's ass if her credit score tanks. And I don't care what her realtor wants!
I'm willing to cooperate under reasonable terms, but this crap is stopping NOW.
Grrr grumble mumble...
User Comments
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Oh, wow, Anok--I thought you were looking for a house--I didn't realize that YOUR landlord was looking to sell.
I would be very irritated if I had potential buyers tromping through my home--and you have every right to ask for *at least* 24 hours!
Where are you guys going to move? Do you know yet?
Give 'em hell, Anok!-
We have no idea
I have not been able to secure enough money for the property auction on saturday to bid on an abandoned house which would put us in a good spot - so I don't know what we are going to do.
We are at the moment looking for employment opportunities elsewhere in lower cost of living states/towns but no luck yet -
Anok, I am so sorry to hear that.
That sucks so bad! -
It does suck! I hate being put in this position.
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How much money do you need, Anok?
I'm actually thinking creatively here. Why don't you ask for donations on your blog? You could set up a PayPal account. I would donate to your cause--I honestly would! -
Well, I need more than a couple thousand, and since last winter my blogging friends were so generous I simply cannot ask for any more money. It wouldn't be right.
I'll figure something out, in fact I may have found a good paying job for Mr Anok in a lower cost of living state. Now it's just a matter of editing his resume and getting him hired. *crosses fingers* -
Anok--let me know if I can do anything to help you.
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You're awesome ♥
you know, I don't live that far from Boston, we really should get coffee one of these days. -
We really should, Anok--seriously. Where are you located in CT again?
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I'll e mail/shout ya.
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Please do.
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Sorry no meeting up without me -
Actually, I think I have this Saturday completely to myself - Punky is having a weekend with the grandparents and Mr Anok is working until late at night. I could prolly visit you and my brother all on the same day!
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@Anok--we are leaving for CA on Friday--BUT we are only going to be gone 10 days. Let's definitely get together when we get back.
@Claire--we will all get together with you too, hon! -
Aww CLaire! You want me to wait until next year?!?
Melinda - damn! Poor timing. But most weekends are good for me. -
Okay, Anok--seriously. I'm going to come by and take you to lunch the weekend after we return to MA. Let's get together on 8/8 (which is a Saturday). I just marked it on my calendar.
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Sounds great to me! WIll write it down, and I'll have to e mail you with contact info and all that!
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Is your email information the same? I know we emailed a while back. Mine is still the same. I have it down on my calendar and I am looking forward to it! I'll make us a nice lunch--an Egyptian lunch with some tabouli. I make a mean batch of tabouli.
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Oh I can eat me some tabouli!
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How about now?-
NO!
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What about now?
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No!
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Now?
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Just tell them sure they can come round whenever, but you will be practising naked rain dancing from the hours of 5am - 11pm.
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LOL. Or the Satan worship circle will be meeting right then!
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Both! hehe
(which is actually what the Anok does) -
Actually, she should do that--be sitting around, naked, worshiping Satan when they get there.
I bet that puts a stop to all the nonsense. -
LOLOL!
I mean, not to be gross or anything but I had a major feminine accident this morning - so yeah, they can come look - at my soaking bloody sheets and mattress and the rags I had to use to clean up Punky's accident this morning as well.....
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That was gross!
But a valid point and more of a reason to hate the bastards. -
Exactly, CLaire. Gross that's the problem. Gross and not in the mood to deal with it
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Oh boy-- yes, when I rented I'd never gotten 24 hours notice, either.
In fact, I would come home from work, and there would already be some stranger in my apartment with the rental agent.
I'd find my stuff rearranged.
People suck.
Hang in there, Anok. But don't be surprised if the rental agent comes by with people anyway.-
I would seriously take the landlord to court if I found strangers in my home when I wasn't there (and it was unexpected).
Seriously--people need to learn they can't do that stuff! -
But they can if no one does anything about it.
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I would be PISSED if someone rearranged my things! The last two times someone came by I set up a camcorder to record the activities and the second time we were still here (Because they can't tell time, apparently).
But they can drop by anytime they want, they don't have a key to get into my unit. *smirk* and I think I'm going to keep it that way. -
Good for you, Anok--it's smart you didn't give them a copy of the key.
@DB--you are right--they can get away with anything if people allow them to--which is why it is so important to make a stand. I'm in the process of suing a telemarketing company that won't quit calling our house, even though we are on the 'do not call' list. I've had it up to here with it! And it's not the money that I am suing them for--it's to prove a point--that they can't get away with doing what they want with no consequences. -
I don't even have a copy of the key - and neither does the landlord. We have one key for each of us, and that's it. Get this, the landlord wanted my husband to give up his key so they could show the house!
I was like uh - nooooo. Not reasonable. He needs a key to his house. If I can find a way to get outta here quick I'm there. I'm so done with not knowing what the hell is going on here anymore. I understand that the landlord wants to sell the property to save her credit score, but it's really not my problem. But she wanted to just foreclose, then foreclose in lieu of, and then get a refi, and now sell, and then back to the modification, and then....
ARGHHHHHH
I was originally quoted a 9-12 month period of living space under the circumstances. Now it's looking like 2 months. (Granted it takes time to close, but still) that's NOT enough time.
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Your landlord sounds like an incompetent jerk. Why should you have to suffer because she got herself in a bad situation.
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If I'd had money to sue people back then, I would have had a house and wouldn't have had to rent.
I think you might be better off, Anok, if you can find somewhere else instead of hanging in there with these people. -
We're tryin'!
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Anok, I just read about this online. Your landlord's credit score is screwed whether it's a short sale or a foreclosure. In fact, she's better off with a foreclosure than a short sale. With a foreclosure, she can never be held liable for the difference between the sale price and the value of the defaulted mortgage. Short sale, she can.
Either way, the article said that her credit score is screwed just the same. Apparently, both a short sale and a foreclosure are read the same way. DEFAULT.-
This is what I'm thinking, but she contacted her legal advisers and thinks this is the best way to go.
Not that I care, mind you.
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Just leave the house that day, and leave a clear sack full of "empties" outside your door. last time they try to show your unit, i betcha -
Ha! You're so gross
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I just meant like empty beer cans...
what does "empties" mean in new england? -
Oh...coming from a gnome I expected the worst - particularly with the personal info I included above, i thought it meant something much nastier
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Boxes Boxes Boxes
Leave boxes in doorways / Hallways, etc. Claim you are packing / unpacking some stuff. Make seeing the apartment so difficult that the realtor will think about it twice.
You can't make it messy, thats reason to evict you, but you are allowed to get rid of / aquire stuff, which is where boxes come in handy. (Just take pictures so that you can prove it was indeed reorganizing, not messy.)
Do that twice, and the Realtor will think again about trying to show your apt.-
We may well be boxing things up for real, anyway.
But it's not a bad idea....hmm....
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I was right there with ya until I read the phrase "people can come poke around my unit" then it all went downhill from there...
best of luck to ya!-
To the naughty corner with you!
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That blows chunks. You need to put that ninja costume to good use and give them a hah! and a hiyah!-
OMG I just got the funniest mental image of a ninja jumping out of a closet at an unsuspecting realtor and clients Screaming HIIIIIIYYYYAAH!
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That certainly take it off the market.
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Watch, the clients would be total ninja fanatics and buy the place on the spot
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Good point. Go as a Turtle or Shredder.
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Ha! HAhahaha
A teenage mutant ninja turtle!
LOLLOLOL
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Grr! I know the feeling! I finally said to my landlord that 3 hours was not enough notice and he took it out on me by coming round and snooping when he knew I'd be out. Bastard...
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Smack him! Nosy bastard.
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- Granted there are bad landlords in every country, but every time I hear another chapter in this saga. I think: GAWD! Let's just bring Anok and family up here and get it over with?
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You have no idea! We're ready to move. Actually I was looking up some properties in Canada, but I had no idea what provinces I was looking at and I got all confused
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I am a landlord. My lease with my tenants requires me to give them 24 hour notice except in the case of emergencies (i.e., leaking roof or broken window). If a tenant stays on after the end of their lease and continues to pay rent, I am still obligated by the terms of the lease, as is the tenant.
Some communities have regulations regarding landlord access to a tenant's unit. The city where I lived in California required 24 hour notice...check to see if your city has a similar requirement.
But my best advice is for you to exercise your right to say "NO!" Trust me, as long as you allow them to come around on short notice, they will continue to do it. If you tell the landlord/realtor "NO!" and make it stick, they will eventually respect that because they don't want to drive over with a potential buyer only to have you refuse them entry. They will be embarrassed and look bad in the eyes of their clients. They'll stop if you just refuse them entry on less than 24 hour notice.
If they come early, say "your appointment is at X o'clock. I'll be ready to show the unit then." I would go so far as to add a lock for which they have no key. You have a right to a certain level of privacy and are under no legal obligation to allow your landlord or her realtor to breach it.-
Yep - that's why I haven't given them a copy of the key, to be honest. I don't want people barging in on me.
The problem here is that the realtor isn't showing the properties herself - the way it works here is that the buyers agents are coming to the property, not the realtor representing the property - so they e mail her, and apparently she can't seem to tell them that their showing will have to be the next day. So she calls me all panicked like "can we show it today? In 2 hours?!?!"
I don't understand why she can't contact the other agents and say "I received your message and would be thrilled to make the property available tomorrow at 2" or whatever.
Grrrr! (By the way I did NOT let them show my unit today - they may have seen the other unit though.) -
Good for you.
Just keep saying "no." The word will get around that if they want to see your unit, they must give you 24 hours notice. If they show up without an appointment, act surprised that they would expect you to allow complete strangers into your house without warning...haven't they ever heard of home invasion robberies??? Just be shocked and indignant that they would try such a ruse to get into your home! (How do you know who they are if they show up without an appointment or way ahead of time?)
It isn't your problem...don't let your idiot landlord foist her troubles off onto you! My late husband used to have a sign over the counter at his print shop: Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine. She dug this hole for herself...you have no obligation to inconvenience yourself and disrupt your life on a regular basis to help her get out of it! -
That's one of my favorite quotes It sums it up nicely
Like I told the landlord today - I'm more than willing to be helpful (keeping up the yard, making sure my unit i snice) but I expect others to be reasonable with my time. End of story.
She agreed when I was done. (Plus i threw in the gross-out story )
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Relocation to Scotland? All you need to know here (government website) www.talentscotland.com/jobs.aspx?item_id=203&list_page_no=0
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Polybore! what the heck are you doing! Those sort aren't allowed in.
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Ha! I think Scotland is beautiful! And I do have the boots and girl-kilt....
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You can go and stay with my sister then.
Her bloke loves motorbikes and she is a loon, you will get on great -
Excellent! Does she love coffee too? Coz that's a bit of a deal breaker...
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Absolutely......
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She wouldn't know if it was real coffee or instant.
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Oh, well as long as there's whiskey....
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