Posted by Guy on July 24, 2009 at 18:04:03:
Please remove the nospam and it should go. I sent information to the harbornet dot com address
Thanks
Guy
notice of residential lease expiration? CA - Posted by Guy
Posted by Guy on July 22, 2009 at 18:33:49:
I’m in California and have problem tenants. We are almost through their 1-year lease agreement, which expires 9/15/09. They just sent July’s rent via certified mail with a claim of mold in the residence, along with claims that this “mold” has infected their bloodstreams (identified via “extensive blood tests”; pets included). In addition they included page 2 of a 10-page report from “MOLD ARMOR” a W.M. Barr & Company subsidiary. I have asked the tenants for the entire report and plan to serve notice that we will NOT be extending their lease and it will expire no later than the agreed to 9/15/09, with a caveat that early departure can be arranged. I’ve checked with First Tuesday and CAR, neither have a ?30-day notice to vacate premise due to lease expiration?. Anyone on this board who has an electronic form that you could send me. Please contact me off line at Guy_Spalding-at-charter-dot-net.
TIA
Re: notice of residential lease expiration? CA - Posted by Edwin
Posted by Edwin on August 30, 2009 at 01:24:31:
Guy, it’s my understand that a fixed term lease is just that. No need to give them a 30 day notice. You might want to send them a reminder letter, but I don’t think there is a formal 30 day notice for a lease expiration.
Good luck with the mold issue. Probably 99% imaginary by those scum bag tenants.
I would not do that - Posted by Chi Ming
Posted by Chi Ming on August 01, 2009 at 18:48:48:
Talk to an attorney about this but I would give the tenant notice to vacate on the grounds of undrinkability of the unit due to potential mold. You may not want to mention the mold. I would offer them moving expenses to go as soon as possible. Do not connect this to the lease expiration. The communications should focus on your taking a mold claim seriously, helping them move so you can take action and get them to healthier quarters, and prevent them from creating the situation they claim just so they don’t have to pay rent or move. They probably know you were not going to renew them and this is a way they can stay and not pay while it gets sorted out and then when it is, you find they moved out “in the middle of the night” any way. In your communications point out that due to your concern over their health, they need to move right away and you won’t charge them rent from the date they hand over the keys.
Once you have the keys, get someone to look for the claimed mold. It may not have come from your unit, but it may have. Get your own report done without interference from a tenant who may have an ulterior motive. Have the furnace filter tested since its unlikely they changed it any mold spores may be trapped there.
Careful, fixin to get sued - Posted by John Merchant
Posted by John Merchant on July 24, 2009 at 13:15:07:
I’d turn this over to your lawyer now, before these Ts file suit against you for their claimed multi-jillion $$$ “blood poisoning”, etc.
Also, and MOST IMPORTANT, notify your liability insurance co and its claim dept NOW about their threatening letter and do not, yourself, have ANY more direct oommunication with them.
Think of the situation this way: You’ve just had a big fender-bender in the busy intersection and the other cars occupants are moaning and groaning and clearly already thinking of what they can claim and chisel out of you.
Just as you should do in that case, do in the present real one…NO communication from you, oral or written as this way you cannot do or say the wrong thing now.
I’ve seen lots of good people get all screwed up by saying too much when they should have been saying nada, zip, zilch and zero.
e-mailed details off forum (nt) - Posted by Guy
Posted by Guy on July 24, 2009 at 15:24:55:
e-mailed details off forum (nt)
My reply off-line came back - Posted by John Merchant
Posted by John Merchant on July 24, 2009 at 17:16:21:
Guy I tried to reply, offline, but it bounced so please send me your right email.
The one that came back, I noticed, had “no spam” as part of it and I suspect that’s erroneous.