I am about to move out of my apartment and I need to have my landlord verify that I’ve lived here for over 2 years and making my payments on time. However we don’t have a landlord on site and the number I have to reach them is an answering service. He hasn’t called back in over a week with many messages left. I also don’t know how to send a notice that I will be moving out in a month. Any advice?
Thanks for the answers, I was thinking of adding a note with my rent check. I’ve also tried to get my cancelled checks but the bank is requesting $2 a copy and I need 2 years worth…doh.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Chris H
You could go to the address you mail your rent checks.
2 dave.greg
Try useing all of your cancelled cheques, also contact city hall for the owners name and get the phone # from them. Send the notice that your moveing both attached to, and written on the cheque you pay with.
3 rugrat 1
If he has a answering service you can leave it with them. He added the service to his rentals so it would be like his secretary. If you have to have it written send a certified letter then you would have proof you sent it to him and it was received. Then talk to a lawyer and do it again because he will try to keep your deposit.
Been there done it pi$$ed him off but got what I needed.
4 Paula M
mail your landlord a prepared letter…..so that all he has to do is sign it….include a return envelope so that you can then make copies to have on had later…..
Mail a separate letter stating….this serves as my required 30 day notice and am requesting an exit walk thru on XX date…so that I am eligible to have my entire deposit returned to me….
Also, some states have very short time frames for returning deposits…..AZ, for example, 14 days…..google your state and landlord/tenant laws and cite the info in your letter…But put him on Notice that you expect your deposit back and that he conduct an exit walk-thru…
In the event he doesn’t show up for the walk-thru…buy that day’s newspaper and take many pictures (with the paper’s date in focus) so you have proof the the condition upon return.