[Gmacarol51]

My daughter has lived in the same apartment complex for two years and put down a deposit upon signing her lease. She recently decided to move into a different apartment within the same complex, same owners and signed a lease almost two months ago and put down an additional deposit. She overlapped her lease on both apartments by 4 days so that she would have time to move out and clean the old apartment. She had the electricity put into her name in the new apartment effective 9/26 and was to pick up the keys to the new apartment 9/27. While at work, she receives a call that before she can have the keys to the new apartment the next day (9/27) the apartment manager wants to do a walk through of her old apartment. When she gets home from work, she finds a note saying that she cannot have the keys to the new apartment because the old apartment has not been cleaned yet. She is losing a day's wages for taking off work to move and was given no notice that there would be a walk-through prior. She was called at 1:00 in the afternoon and the walk-though had to be done before 2:00pm that same day. She works 45 mintues away from her apartment and she knew she hadn't cleaned it yet because her intent was to clean after everything was moved out. They refuse to talk to her until 9/29, two days later than she was to move in. Does she have any legal rights? They said she may continue to live in the apartment she is in on a monthly basis but the rent is almost $200 more a month to continue living there. This doesn't give her an opportunity to even find another apartment and will she get her deposit for the new lease she signed back? Do they even have a right to do this?

[Fr_Chuck]

If she signed and got a copy of the new lease, they are bound by it, they may only bill her for any damages to the other apartment after she moves out and that lease is ended.