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re: Renting an apartment w/o a lease?

Posted on 1/25/11 at 10:42 pm to
Posted by rahrahoohlalala
Member since Oct 2010
698 posts
Posted on 1/25/11 at 10:42 pm to
If you don't sign a lease, a month-to-month is presumed, effective as of the date on the first rent check written. It's not that you don't have rights if there's no written lease, it's just that you get the standard lease agreement rights.

It's also true that most leases are have clauses written in favor of the landlord. As long as you're aware he can boot you with 30 days notice, don't worry about a lease.
Posted by NukemVol
Member since Jan 2010
1636 posts
Posted on 1/26/11 at 10:13 am to
I don't have a lease. Yes, I can be kicked out at anytime, but I can also leave at anytime. For example, my last apartment, there was a fire above us, the sprinklers flooded our apartment. The insurance covered everything, and they cleaned up as much as they could. But it was still moist and humid in the apartment and mold grew. The landlord took two months to even make progress on it, and it still wasn't nice. We had to stay the remainder of our lease because of the terms of the lease.

Without a lease, I just bail on the place out of common sense, or a gentlemen's agreement.
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