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WWYD re: Apartment. Is this legal?
Aussie45
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Some background. We have lived in the same apartment building for 4 years now. It's a dog apartment building and overall we've loved our rental agency and our place.
About two years ago, we had trash cans outside each set of doors. One day they were gone so we called and asked where they had gone, because duh dogs poop and we need somewhere to put it. They told us that someone was defacing the trash cans so they took them out. I asked if it was at our building cause ours had looked fine and they said no, but they decided to take them all out anyways. Ok, that makes sense, it's annoying, but whatever.
Earlier this year in May, we signed a new year long lease. Shortly after that, there were signs on the doors that people weren't picking up dog poop. We got extra vigilant after that picking up ALL poop around the building because they said that there would be consequences if it didn't changed.
Fast forward to now, all summer long we've taken the dogs out and picked poop up. We walk around the building daily trying to get our damn dogs to poop so we see all of the yard. There's no poop anywhere. Last week, they put up a sign that tomorrow all dogs will be DNA tested and a fifty dollar fee will be billed to tenants with dogs.
A) This wasn't in our contract to begin with so both DH and I feel we shouldn't have to pay as there was no warning to do this.
Our apartment yard (around our whole building) is clean and free of poop. There are about 5 dogs in the building and all of out neighbors are wonderful about picking up their dog's waste.
It seems like this is another buildings problem so like the trash can incident, they're making it the same across the board for everyone. Ok well, maybe you should wait to put that in the contract when people renew it. Can they honestly just changed stuff mid contract and say you have to pay 'x'? I'm not sure what our contract says on this because I can't find it in our stack of leases for the past 4 years (I have every other year'a lease though). I'm going to be stopping by and asking them for a print out of our lease agreement so I can double check what it says, but I was wondering what you guys thought?
About two years ago, we had trash cans outside each set of doors. One day they were gone so we called and asked where they had gone, because duh dogs poop and we need somewhere to put it. They told us that someone was defacing the trash cans so they took them out. I asked if it was at our building cause ours had looked fine and they said no, but they decided to take them all out anyways. Ok, that makes sense, it's annoying, but whatever.
Earlier this year in May, we signed a new year long lease. Shortly after that, there were signs on the doors that people weren't picking up dog poop. We got extra vigilant after that picking up ALL poop around the building because they said that there would be consequences if it didn't changed.
Fast forward to now, all summer long we've taken the dogs out and picked poop up. We walk around the building daily trying to get our damn dogs to poop so we see all of the yard. There's no poop anywhere. Last week, they put up a sign that tomorrow all dogs will be DNA tested and a fifty dollar fee will be billed to tenants with dogs.
A) This wasn't in our contract to begin with so both DH and I feel we shouldn't have to pay as there was no warning to do this.
Our apartment yard (around our whole building) is clean and free of poop. There are about 5 dogs in the building and all of out neighbors are wonderful about picking up their dog's waste.It seems like this is another buildings problem so like the trash can incident, they're making it the same across the board for everyone. Ok well, maybe you should wait to put that in the contract when people renew it. Can they honestly just changed stuff mid contract and say you have to pay 'x'? I'm not sure what our contract says on this because I can't find it in our stack of leases for the past 4 years (I have every other year'a lease though). I'm going to be stopping by and asking them for a print out of our lease agreement so I can double check what it says, but I was wondering what you guys thought?
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Re: WWYD re: Apartment. Is this legal?
It's not billed at the time of the DNA testing, but later. I'm tempted to make a copy of our lease and take the bill and mail it to them. Fucking assholes.
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