29 August 2009, 4:50 pm
We have lived at our apartment in Arvada, CO for just over 3 years now. Out lease ends November 15, 2009. In the last year or so new management has taken over and a new maintenance guy replaced the old (awesome) one. Since the management change problems have not been dealt with in a "timely manor". It took them 2 weeks to fix our broken toilet (after reminding them once about it), months to fix a drawer that has broken over and over again (obviously not a big deal but just adds to the evidence), 6 weeks and counting to fix our fridge that has been freezing food on the warmest setting (earlier this week it warmed up so we turned the fridge to the coldest setting and it is room temperature. We lost all of our food.) So nobody has come for that yet, we are currently de-icing and cleaning behind to try to fix ourselves. I called 24 hour maintenance and they offered to come out right now but I see no point. I'm already doing it. I told him I would talk with him on Monday. They seem to only enforce rules when it is convenient for them. Example: Not picking up your dogs poop is supposed to be a $50 fine, I agree with this but people let their dogs run off leash constantly! Our neighbors dog even got killed by a mastiff and a Pit Bull (which are both illegal in our complex) a few months ago. NOTHING happened to the owners of those dogs, no eviction, no fines (to my knowledge) and they are still letting their dogs run off leash. There are various little things here and there that I won't bore you with. We are model tenants. Never late on rent, never been fined, always pick up our dogs poop. Never so much as broken a rule. Is there ANY way we can get out of our lease early without paying the $1,000 lease breaking fee, or to keep paying rent until they find a tenant. We found a house to rent he is perfect and we would actually be saving money. We are considering (I know it is a bad idea, karma wise) just moving out on a weekend when nobody is in the office if we get this house. What goes on your rental history report, your credit report, etc.? What ramifications would we get. Obviously we wouldn't get our deposits back but we weren't banking on that anyway. Any help would be great, personal experience would be awesome and any landlords that have dealt with this kind of thing would be awesome as well. Thank you!... Read More »
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