Today we got a call from our landlord saying she wants to “fix the place up like when I used to live there,” and have a family move in instead (can’t have any of those disreputible 20-something professionals living there, who knows what horrid things they’ve already done to the place). Our lease runs out this month, but two of the three of us were planning on staying, and a friend of mine who’s coming back to town for med school was also going to move in.
So now I’ve got three weeks to find a new place for September 1st. I hate the stress and pressure of finding a place any time, but now it particularly sucks because I’m about to be right in the middle of a production. This means I have zero nights available to go look at apartments until the 20th of this month, which, IMO, is cutting things way too close. So, I’ve got to take time off of work to look at places. Aaaarrrggghhh!!! I just moved in May, and was hoping I wouldn’t have to move again for quite some time. I’m not even completely unpacked, which I guess is a good thing.
Minor rant I know, but I’m kind of stressing out about this now.
Is it legal in Vermont to give you such short notice, even if your lease isn’t going to be renewed?
http://www.cvoeo.org/vti/riv/riv-menu.htm
Here is a site with some information, but I couldn’t find any reference to Fair Notice. (You may be more inclined to careful reading than I am, though.)
Sorry to hear that, that sucks. Good luck…
(Why the hell are the URL tags not working for the last couple hours?)
If you have ben there for less than 2 years, legally they need to give you 60 days notice before they make you move out. If you’ve been there more than 2 years, it’s 90 days.
PLEASE read up on your rights as a tenant. Out in Quebec, it’s 6 months notice, no matter what the cause and reason. 6 months!
I’m moving today. My friend decided (with his family) that they wanted me to be caretaker of their house while they are away. So I was told that I had to have all my stuff ready to go to be moved. They told me this on Monday.
I don’t mind taking care of their house, and I certainly love the deal they gave me (1/2 of my current rent for a 3 bedroom house), but 3 days notice to move? This was my only real option because he is moving tomorrow, and they are getting the truck today. I can’t pass up the opportunity, but damn moving sucks.
Thanks for the links all! (you’d think I’d be able to do my own online research)
The thing is, Elly, I’m not being evicted, so I dont know if that really applies to me. Our lease runs out this September, and our landlord decided to not have us sign a new one. I don’t think that qualifies as eviction, but I’ll read over this site today, and see what I can see.
The other thing is, right now there are a fair number of apartments available for September 1 (it’s a big moving day here in Burlington). I don’t even think I’d want to pull an “it’s illegal to make us leave before October,” stay there with a landlord who’d hate us, and then have to find a place in October, when the market is much more tight.
I think I’m just going to have to grin and bear it. Gonna make some phone calls at lunch today. It’s actually looking like there might be some really nice places available, and with cheaper rent too. Silver lining and all that, what.
Anyway, I typed “Vermont apartments” into Google and a whole load of sites with online listings came up. I found my current place through such a site. It had pictures, 360[sup]o[/sup] panoramas, and the like.
You are being evicted. What the landlord is doing is illegal. If you live there you’re entitled to stay there beyond the current lease term, unless it was SPECIFICALLY stated that your lease would end at that point. If you were expecting to stay, however, you have a case. See Vermont Title 9, Part 7, Chapter 137 (Residential Rental Greements) para 4467, “Termination of tenancy; notice.”
