How to avoid losing apartment because landlord cannot be reached?
Our current landlord lives several states away (according to county property records) and will not provide us with contact information. The property management agency was recently fired and a new agent was hired. Unfortunately the new agent spends a great deal of time out of the country and does not answer phone calls. We want to move out at the end of our lease into a managed complex. Unfortunately, the managed complexes in our area will not take us without a current landlord reference. Our first choice already has our credit history, payment history, references from previous landlords, background checks, etc., but cannot reach anyone connected to our current landlord. We are going to lose $400 in application fees and holding deposits. We already know that other complexes have the same requirements.
What can we possibly do other than giving up on moving into a managed complex?
Followup:
More conversation with the rental company. This is not a rental history issue.
The issue here is that we cannot be issued a rental occupancy permit for the complex (or any rental property) without verification of that our current rental occupancy permit will be terminating. The landlord is obligated to do this under the conditions of their rental permits (same county), but apparently they have decided to sell the unit anyway (possibly the reason the management agency was fired and replaced with a real estate agent).
Once our lease terminates, we will be clear, but then that leaves us in limbo for a couple of weeks (and we will still lose our deposit on the new place).
Tagged with: History References • Landlord • Occupancy Permit
Filed under: Credit
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Frankly, all you can do is try to explain to the new complex the situation you are in. Even if you could reach the agent, no landlord is obligated to provide you with any sort of reference if they choose to not do so. That’s a courtesy provided, not a requirement.
Ask the new property manager if they will except 12 months canceled checks as proof of payment history. The rest of the information they can do them selves.
As a mortgage underwriter (despite the screen name) this is what we require to show pymt history.