IAC (Irvine Co.) Vs Private rental.....

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<p>Can I brag a bit here? If I were a landlord, I would want tenants like us. I clean the leaves out of the gutters, clean the sink traps, fix the toilets when they break, fix leaky faucets, etc. Who wants to wait for the repair person to call back, make an inconvenient appointment that has four hours of leeway, and have a strange person in your home? It is faster just to fix stuff myself. Plus, my wife thinks I am a hero for making her life easier.</p>

<p>We re-upped our lease in September and the landlord did not increase the rent.</p>
 
One additional thing -- since I have a private rental, the lease terms were negotiable. I asked for, and got, a condition on the lease that if the property is listed for sale, I have the option to immediately move out. I explained that I'm not going to baby-sitting a listed house during an attempt to sell. Since my landlord doesn't intend to sell, it made no difference to him. But it protects me from having a lock box on the door.
 
One time my ex roomate and I saw a cute condo next to our complex. We told the guy we lived next door in the apartments and would think about it. A few days went buy and he showed up at our door! Not sure how he found us, but he did. Told us God wanted us to be his renters. He even wrote us a letter when we told him again we would think about it. Well lets say we ended up having no lease requirements, got the rent lowered,and deposit down to $500.

I have found when you go private if you sell yourself you will get a better deal.
 
fumbling, the problem with our Neighbors is that they, like us, rent a Townhouse with a Patio, that's not actually the problem,the problem is It is always full of Junk and Trash...I have complained to the Management 5 times since last March when they moved in and every single time they have said they will call them and the last time they said they were going to call them into the Office, by the way, all the staff members I've spoken to agree with me...



Our last Manager even told me that she wasn't sure how to deal with the situation and that she would seek guidance from Corporate...



The problem is now that the Apt on the other side of us became vacant and their friends/Family Members have moved into it, now we have problems on both sides...



The Management have 3 options as far as I'm concerned, move us at their expense to another identical unit, or, give us a discount because we didn't move to Irvine to live next door to People like or Neighbors or do the most sensible thing, which would be the best solution, FORCE our Neighbors to comply with the terms of their lease, and that is basically to not store ANYTHING on the Patio, use it only for a BBQ and Patio Furniture and take their Trash to the Tash Bin...simple.
 
PeterUK,



Doubt they will give you a discount big enough to make it worth while to live next door to some inconsiderate rednecks. There is a rule I usually follow: I will give the lower management up to three times in a given period of time to fix the problem, and i will document what can be documented. After that, I will straight go to the highest local exe. management with the documented "events". This will include all the names of the person i talk to, and the inaction / imcompetence examples. It works 95% of the time for me. You don't want to sit around and wait for the lower management to "go through the chains", since that will only get your more frustrated and cause more delays in resolving the problems. One thing you should not do is to confront your neighbours, since that is not really you job, and can only make your situation worse. I don't think it is difficult to find out the head of the apartment units division of the irvine company.



Good luck!
 
<p>I'm pretty sure management can evict those people, since what they are doing almost certainly violates the lease. Even if they do pay the rent.</p>

<p>I've done it in Florida, under similar circumstances.</p>
 
<p>As Owners Feel Mortgage Pain, So Do Renters</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/us/18renters.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/us/18renters.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1</a></p>

<p>There are no exact figures for how many renters have been evicted because of foreclosures, but a survey taken this year by the Mortgage Bankers Association found that one in eight foreclosures was non-owner-occupied. This figure probably underestimates the problem, according to the association, because buildings receive tax benefits if they are registered as owner-occupied. More than one million properties are expected to enter foreclosure this year. </p>

<p>Many renters say they never even knew their buildings were heading for foreclosure.</p>
 
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