All Forum Posts by: Craig Palmer

Oh yeah... we have 5 pets. haha So a hotel might not work out. 

I don't want to step on anyones toes not even our landlord. For the record, she is a jerk, which has nothing to do with her landlord abilities. She's just not a pleasant person. I don't wish her ill will or anything of that sort, just to be clear. 

When I say difficult I just mean that I would have hoped she would be willing to work with us for an extra couple days. Im not a landlord so Im not pervy to what kind of loss our landlord would have with losing a couple days. We would of course pay a prorated amount of our rent or whatever she wants to raise the rent too. As that is not the case we will have to find another solution to this. 

Reaching out to our builders we can't get garage access ahead of move in because they can't be liable for our belongings. 

As of right now and thanks to everyones input here, we are pushing for a May 1st move in date. We will have 1 or more moving trucks packed the weekend before and stay in a hotel or at a friends that night. 

We have a deposit. To note, when we moved in we never filled out a checklist with the previous landlord. Our current landlady bought our duplex while in the middle of our lease. So we should get the whole deposit back because they have no reference to condition at move in. 

But yeah, I would imagine they would just pull the pro-rated amount of our rent out of each day we remain after lease.

Our new home is very close to being done. However we can't get the keys until the move in date. It was originally scheduled for May 11th but they moved it back to April 28th for our landlord. Now that we may need a couple days she still won't budge. 

She is stubborn in her ways. She wouldn't even come out to fix an electrical issue that the energy company claimed was landlord responsibility and fire department came out due to potential hazard. After that she finally got her electrician out to take a look. Our power was out and she didn't believe us. That's a whole other story. She's not good at her job, I'll just leave it at that.

So we bought a house. Our lease ends April 30th at our duplex while construction is wrapping up on our new home. Original move in date was April 28th. Due to some storms we are looking closer to May 2nd.

Despite months notice and continual communication on my part our landlord is not willing to work with us at all and expects the duplex to be empty on May 1st.

I just don't want to move 2 times into a storage unit in one week. Our landlord expects our builders to pay for storage. Anyway, whats the repercussions to staying an extra day or two? Were in Texas if Texas law makes any difference.

Thank you.