Hi.
I have a rent question. Me and my wife have rented a apartment and now we being sued. So what happen is. We find add newspaper and want to first inspection, it looked OK at the time (inspection was at 7-8 pm it was dark and lightning was not really good , someone told me it was illegal to conduct inspection at dark time of day? ). Ok so next day at around 10-11 am I signed contract and we start to move in. All this day we were cleaning appetent that when problems start . In all closets we find mouse hole and dead cockroaches in the kitchen (this was a time when my wife start friking out ). We decide not to sleep here and want to my parents house. Next morning we decide that we can't stay in this apartment. I contacted landlord and told him that we out, ant we left. And next day I sand later to landlord that I want my deposit back. (some one told me that I have rite to cancel contract in first 3 days and have no problems after wards ? ). Landlord never returned me my deposit and now after 9 months I got note from court that he is suing me. So this is my story. I leave in state of Connecticut .
Thanks.

What did you sign? That is important. If you signed a lease or an agreement to rent the apartment for a specific length of time, then your landlord can sue if you don't.

Frankly, you were an idiot to take an apartment without a proper inspection. Why on earth would it be illegal to show an apartment at night? That would mean that people who work office hours could never view it. If the lighting was bad, that should have been a clue to you that the apartment might not be great.

Go to a lawyer and stop taking dubious legal advice from "someone".

Hello A:

Go to court and tell the judge what you told us. It's true, there are many things that you SHOULD have done during this episode that would have covered you better from a legal standpoint... But, if you paid the first months rent and only stayed there one day before you vacated, your deposit should have gone for the second month due to your notice being late..

I don't expect you to understand the legal reasoning behind the law. That's cool. What I'm saying, is you shouldn't owe any more money because he had TWO months to rent it out on YOUR DIME. Most judges would view that adequate enough time to have rented it.

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Someone was wrong on several accounts. It may not be a smart idea to inspect after dark but not a law/rule. There is no 3 day cooling off period for a lease.

In the years before I bought my house I always looked at an apartment twice before I signed anything... I looked inside and out during the day... and again at night. There are things you won't see if you look at it only in the day or only at night.

It is not illegal to show an apartment at night, You can show it at 2am in the morning if that is when you want to look and if the landlord will do it.

If you were not happy with the inspection, if you felt it was too dark, then you don't take it, and ask for another inspection. So you inspected and felt is was OK

And no there is no "3" day right unless the lease or rental agreement allows it. And I will be honest I have never seen one that did. There is a 3 day right to refuse on door to door salesmen who come to YOUR home to sell you items, like magazines, and the such, but those are state laws and do not apply in all states either.

So you signed something, either a rental agreement or a lease. So yes you will owe at least one if not two months rental, if this is a rental agreement, if it is a lease, you owe all the rental till they rented it to someone else.
And you will pay any and all penalties listed in the "thing" you signed.

So you will most likely lose, Maybe and just maybe, if you have photos of the mouse hole, photos of herds of roaches chasing you out of the apartment, he may give you some break in what you owe, ( since it is small claims court) But expect to lose and expect to have to pay every penny the rental agreement says you have to