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Andrew Stouse
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Mushrooms growing in my apartment!

Andrew Stouse
  • New to Real Estate
  • Atlanta, GA
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Hi everyone,

I suppose I am on the other side of what this forum is for, however I know many of you are well-versed in tenant/landlord laws so I would like to get your opinions!


I moved into my apartment last March and it is owned by a major property management company. I have had issue after issue in my apartment. Roaches are crazy in there. The AC unit was leaking for several weeks and I had to mop up the water almost every day. Then, once the leak was fixed, I noticed that there were mushrooms growing out of my baseboards. I sent photos to the leasing office and told them of the issue. They sent a guy with a bottle of bleach and water to spray all my baseboards. My personal property was damaged by not only the water but them spraying bleach on my belongings. In january, I called to let them know I wanted to end my lease and gave 60 days notice. They called 3-4 times the past two months to ask if I was renewing, I said no. Then I check my bill for this month, and it is almost double. They are charging me a rent increase, month to month fees, and several other fees. I asked why and they said I did not give them WRITTEN notice (I will be honest, after reading the lease it does say written notice and I did not provide that).

I talked to the manager and was nice, she would not budge. I talked to the manager and was assertive, and she did not budge. I am wondering, with the mushrooms that are currently growing out of my baseboards, am I able to break my lease? I am not even breaking it, I just want to be let go by the time my lease was supposed to end.

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Karl B.
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Karl B.
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Like Super Mario Bros. the rent ate the mushrooms and grew larger in size! 

In the future ALWAYS send notice VIA writing (whether VIA text or registered letter) and not verbally. 

If the mushrooms are still visible and you aren't comfortable living there due to it potentially being unsafe I recommend contacting code enforcement: 

https://www.atlantapd.org/about-apd/divisions/chief-administ...

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