Anyone have real estate experience here?

[Sillywilly]

Here's my problem. We're renting our house out in the U.S. We've had college kids (mostly girls) staying there. They sign a year lease and leave a deposit that is pretty much equal to one months rent that they get back after the year if they don't stay.

So here's what happened. Apparently somebody kicked the back door in (steel door) by kicking it until it came out of the frame lol. (Probably democrats). They stole some stuff from the girls but luckily neither of the girls was home when it happened.

The door is or has been replaced but now one of the girls dad says he's going to sue if it get's broken into again and wants out of the lease. My real estate agent says it's probably best for everyone if we give them their deposit back and let them out of the lease. o.O

Is this fucktard talk? Why the hell would they get the deposit back in the very least? One of the girls wants to stay there but can't without a roommate.

I'm starting to think my agent is just giving my fucking money away, we've already had to have some discussions about how she just throws repair money at any little complaint and now this shit.

When left our apartment complex we didn't even have a lease and they kept our deposit anyways simply because we gave them a 28 day notice instead of a 30 day lol. This situation with my house doesn't seem right to me.

[Boxy Brown]

Did the dad cosign on the lease? Is it the primary leaseholder that's trying to back out or one of the other tenants?

[Zavon]

Ill ask some other democrats I know that might know the answer to this.

[Zavon]

Also, I agree it sounds like fucktard speak. Unless they can prove that the house itself is unsafe somehow, I can't imagine how they'd v win.

[Valec]

Be wary. Tenants actually have quite a bit of the law on their side. I don't think in this instance it makes much sense, but they can make a landlord's life hell of they know the law.

[VKhaun]

This is the wrong place for advice honestly. I know it's good to come get a feel for things on catacombs, everyone here does it, but landlord and tenant laws are a big area of law that is very specialized and very dependent on area.

The landlord end tends to be weak on time tables. They often give you only 30 days to respond to things that you may not consider meaningful. That guy's threat to sue, the incident itself, their informing you of it, anything -even something that seems stupid and arbitrary- could be a marker from which you had 30 days to do X and having not done so makes you vulnerable to being sued. It's like that girl who expects you to remember stupid anniversaries like the first time you held hands or the first time she felt comfortable enough to take a shit at your place.

[Sillywilly]

Thanks guys. I didn't know if some of you might have worked in the real estate business or something. I talked to someone else that works in real estate and he said there are very very few instances where my agent should just be handing my deposit over to someone who broke the lease. Since the entrance to the house was destruction and no fault of the house (IE shitty lock, window that doesn't secure properly, etc) it's kind of a "act of God" type thing that could have happened to anyone anywhere.

I talked to my real estate owner on the phone yesterday and she seems to think that one dad is hell bent on making trouble. I told her it wasn't fair to my party to give up the deposit every time somebody threatens or for us to have to pay this months mortgage because they bailed out within a week of the break in. There was one girl who wanted to stay (2 rented) but she needed a roommate to afford it. I told my agent that I was for keeping the deposit from the other party and putting it towards the rent for that month so that she could catch a break and have another month to find herself a roommate if she wanted too (and let both parties out of the lease) AND get her half of the deposit back at the end of the lease if she was able to stay. To me it seems like my agent was willing to dip into my pocket book just to avoid trouble which is not what I'm paying them for lol. I told her if she could get someone else into the house immediately without costing me anything then they could give back the deposit minus the usual cleaning cost/etc, if she wanted to go that route to avoid the trouble, but I expected no money to come out of my wallet for their breaking of the lease. We'll see what I hear back. :-/ This kind of crap is exactly why I don't like rich people. My agent was born silver spoon like many of the people in the area that my wife and I had been living for 10 years. If you have more money than you can spend then every penny counts, if you're middle class like my wife and I, you don't get a discount at the counter but you shouldn't expect to get the same level of concern or service as the silver spoons. That's what pisses me off about the rich people on my facebook page bitching about the "socialist" Obama supporters and their entitlement to other peoples money yet in that particular community alone I've seen everything from apartment landlords to real estate agents to facility directors use a middle class persons money to show leniency to a silver spoon.

The other thing that bothers me about this is we live in a university town and in a decent area. We live right across from a rich council member and we can see the uni stadium from our property. It's a well known neighborhood watch area and yet still someone managed to kick in a door that is literally 10 feet from the main road in the middle of the day while the tenants were at class. If that neighborhood is still anything like it was when we left there's at least 3 immediate neighbors both on the same side of the kicked in door and just adjacent to it is the lady that is head of our neighborhood watch and we're surrounded by immediate neighbors that have annoying ass dogs. So when I say this could have happened anywhere, I mean this literally could have happened anywhere that doesn't have a security guard.

[Sazz]

(Probably democrats)

lol'd