Can you get out of paying the next month if he costs you your tenant?
I had 3 people lined up that wanted my apartment 2 and a half weeks ago. I started the application with one of them on a Monday. On the friday of the first week I still hadn't heard anything from the landlord and so i called him, but wasn't able to get in touch with him until the monday. At that point he told me he looked at the application for the first time on the friday and noticed that they would need a co-signer because one was self-employed (they have good credit though). So, I had the tenants get a co-signer. Now the tenants fucked-up and only sent a letter (as opposed to an application) from one of the guy's father's saying he would co-sign, but again my landlord didn't call me or the prospective tenants to tell us there was a problem with their application, so it just sat there for another 5 days doing nothing. We both left messages to ask what's up and neither got a call back until today.
I'm fuming right now because i had other people that wanted the appartment should the app be turned-down, but now they've found other places. It may still work-out with these tenanats, but they're are getting antsy as well and i'm getting the feeling that they may decide to go looking for another appartment this weekend because it's taking so long with my landlord and he never calls anyone back.
I know that the law is different everywhere, but if i wasn't successful in renting the place, might I theoretically have grounds to give a big **** you (and not pay next month's rent) to the landlord for dragging his feet and causing me to lose out? The application process, by his own words, is supposed to take 24-48 hours. The only reason it's taking so long is because he's never in the office, never follows-up, and nobody else can apparently do this stuff.
I had 3 people lined up that wanted my apartment 2 and a half weeks ago. I started the application with one of them on a Monday. On the friday of the first week I still hadn't heard anything from the landlord and so i called him, but wasn't able to get in touch with him until the monday. At that point he told me he looked at the application for the first time on the friday and noticed that they would need a co-signer because one was self-employed (they have good credit though). So, I had the tenants get a co-signer. Now the tenants fucked-up and only sent a letter (as opposed to an application) from one of the guy's father's saying he would co-sign, but again my landlord didn't call me or the prospective tenants to tell us there was a problem with their application, so it just sat there for another 5 days doing nothing. We both left messages to ask what's up and neither got a call back until today.
I'm fuming right now because i had other people that wanted the appartment should the app be turned-down, but now they've found other places. It may still work-out with these tenanats, but they're are getting antsy as well and i'm getting the feeling that they may decide to go looking for another appartment this weekend because it's taking so long with my landlord and he never calls anyone back.
I know that the law is different everywhere, but if i wasn't successful in renting the place, might I theoretically have grounds to give a big **** you (and not pay next month's rent) to the landlord for dragging his feet and causing me to lose out? The application process, by his own words, is supposed to take 24-48 hours. The only reason it's taking so long is because he's never in the office, never follows-up, and nobody else can apparently do this stuff.