A little back story:
Ten years ago I bought a house in Carson City, NV. At the time my husband and I lived in Saudi Arabia, so we hired a manager to rent and maintain the house. We have had very good renters. Our last couple lived in the house for 7 years. They were on a month to month. One month notice is required on for renter and rentee.
Present day:
Late last year my husband was offered a position working for the state of Nevada, in Northern Nevada, close to our house. Ok, let’s give the renters notice, and seeing that they have been good tennents I have the rental agent give them two months to find another place and move out. At this time, we were renting and I gave two months notice. Told then they didn’t have to repaint, because I was going to paint the house throughout(they had painted the living areas pink)
I start packing and CLEANING the apartment. Set up the utilities and phone in Nevada for the day after the renters are suppose to be gone. Cancelling the utilities at the apartment.
After arriving in CC, we find the renters did NOTHING, No transfer of any service. So I had to scramble about to make sure things were in our name. The phone , the cable, the electric and the gas.
When the tennent finally called me(three days later) I was a bit put out. She told me that I was insensitive to her plight of having to find a place in two months! They couldn’t go to So. California for a holiday, blah blah blah… Lady,I had the **Same ** resposibilities leaving my rental and I took care of them!
Well, I’m in the house and it’s a mess. I’ll have fun fixing it up.
I’ve never transferred services to the new owner when I vacated a house. I didn’t even know you could or that the service providers would allow it.
I made sure to tell the electric, wager, cable, phone, etc. people that I was vacating and gave them a cut-off date, and I’d give them the name of the new owner, but that’s it. I wouldn’t have known for sure what the new people wanted and how they wanted it set up.
I can understand being upset if the house didn’t have water or electric when you got there, but as for the rest, it seems like that’s your responsibility.
I don’t know if this is common in Nevada either, but I’ve rented both homes and apartments in three Midwestern states, and have never transferred utility services upon leaving a place nor had it transferred to me. I didn’t realize that a utility company would even do that.
In renting places in Illinois, Wisconsin and Texas, I’ve never called to have utilities either transferred into or out of my name upon occupying or vacating an apartment. The landlord does it.
Your tenant is a twit, though. Complaining about being given double the required notice is stupid.
Did the tenants have any children? or pets?. You were very generous to give them 2 months notice, but even with that it can still be difficult to find a place within a certain school district or that will allow pets.
I have a daughter and 2 dogs and if I were given even 3 months notice tommorrow, I’d be in an absolute panic.
If this was just a couple with no children or pets then 2 months should have been plenty, in which case, they’re poopyheads.
But even if they have 17 children, 4 cats, a ferret, and 12 dogs, eenerms gave them twice as much notice as is required. If it’s hard to find housing with that sort of menagerie, that’s really not her concern.
And I would hate the instability of living somewhere for seven years month-to-month. I would want a lease so I would know that things might change at the end-date and plan accordingly.
and I’ve heard of cutting off my service or signing up for new service, but not transferring service.
I know it was my responsibility to get the utilities in my name, the problem arose when they did not give a cut off date for the utilities so they would revert to me(being the owner they would revert automatically) The phone was a nightmare, the used an independant carrier, and SBC couldn’t connect my phone until they cut off their service! My husband was training in CC and they met him. They should have said something of the delays then.
FWIW I’ve transfered services in the same area, same account different address. This is helpful especially if you need a huge deposit to start them.
As to the month to month, it works both ways, if they had given me a month’s notice and moved out,(Given that I didn’t want to live here) I would have had to scrabble for a renter after I cleaned up the place.
This exact same thing happened to me when I moved in December. Bell couldn’t connect my phone because the previous tenants hadn’t disconnected their Rogers line, so I spent hours and hours and hours on the phone with Bell’s Og-forsaken voice-recognition “customer-service” Emily bitch (who for some reason doesn’t understand “Put me through to your fucking manager, bitch!” - but can be bypassed with 2 zeros), and Bell’s installation department (which told me to call Rogers), and Rogers customer service department (who I have no association with whatsoever, so they couldn’t understand why I was calling), and Bell’s “customer service” department (who again assured me that once I called Rogers everything would be okay), and my landlord (who didn’t understand what she had to do with it either, especially after having been on a conference call with Bell and my neighbour), and Bell’s credit department (who asked why I had called them - after I had been cut off twice, put on hold for hours, and transferred over by their “customer service” department), and my neighbours (!).
In the end, after two service visits and a very angry e-mail from me, they connected my number to my neighbour’s phone, and the neighbours (!!) ended up without phone service for several weeks.
The moral: PLEASE, especially if you live in a place with independent phone carriers, please have your phone disconnected before you move. For some reason the phone companies are unable to handle this without us holding their hands.
Last I heard the neighbours were still having problems with their line.
Two months really isn’t much time to give someone to find a new place to live after seven years in one place. I wouldn’t call that a “generous” amount of notice regardless of legal requirements. It would still be a huge pain in the ass to be blindsided like that and suddenly have to uproot a family, find a new place and move within the space of a few weeks.
I’ve never heard of a renter having to transfer utilities either.
Oh boy. “Unethical”? How? It’s a voluntary agreement the renters got into with the owner. How is it in any way, shape, or form, "unethical’? If you don’t want someone to have control over your home or shelter, get into a long-term contract or buy your own house.
I admire your posts about music, but your posts on these sorts of subjects are, to be kind, most puzzling.
OK, this is a total hijack, but why, then, did you previously state that you have no interest in purchasing a home or condo? If that’s the case, you’ll be a renter all your life, and someone else will have control over your home.
Nonsense. Two months is plenty of time. Is it an inconvenince. You betcha. Life is full of inconvenince, especially when you are a month-to-month renter. How much time is acceptable to you Dio? 3 months? 6? 12? Give me a break, two months is enough coddling for the tenants.
