Renters Rights

A few days after NYEBoy moved to Florida, his dad called him. He told him not to worry about the lease because he went ahead and set it up with the bank to have a check automatically drafted three weeks before rent was due, which would be mailed to the leasing company. Yes, his dad is awesome like that. Less than a month after moving to Florida, his father decided he was going to move across the world since his kids are moving on and he's retired. NYEBoy has an older half sister who still lives in MS.

All was going well until last month when the old leasing company sold our contract to a new leasing company. We got an eviction notice on the door stating they hadn't received payment and we needed to get the fuck out in three days. I immediately got on the phone with the new leasing company to find out what was going on. A really fucking lot few phone calls, voice messages, and e-mails later we realized the old company had received two checks and cashed one of them. Of course the old company began denying they ever received the check, much less cashing it. They also told the new company they just got the second check, which was probably the late payment. Um, no. It was actually the November check coming in from the bank automatically.

The new company told us they couldn't do anything with the check because it was written to the old company. The old company told us they couldn't write the new company a check until that one had cleared and they only write checks out once a week, so it could be two weeks before they could help us.

Mean while, the new company lets us know there is a $5 fee every single day we are late. They aren't exactly pleased we can't get ahold of NYEBoy's dad but by e-mail once a week, either. After nearly three weeks of phone calls, there is a check for this month and next month being overnighted to the new company. Thank.God.

Sounds stressful enough, right? Now let me add the tidbit in where our fridge went out two days after getting that letter and it's still out! They won't come out and fix it, they keep giving us the run around, but I know it's because of the rent drama. I've been so upset about not having a fridge my blood is boiling at this point. I am even half tempted to talk to a lawyer to find out what we can do.

I feel bad for the new company because the old company is lying to them, but seriously this is beyond pathetic about not fixing the fridge. I had also gone shopping earlier the day our fridge went out. So not only have I not had fridge food for this long, I also lost a lot of food too. New leasing company apparently could give two shits.