My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Georgia
My lease ended September 30, 2014. I've lived in this apartment over a decade. We received a notice on the door in August informing us we could reduce the amount our rent would increase at the end of the lease by signing a new lease early. This notice was generic, not addressed personally to me, and did not specify what the rent would be without a lease, or if we signed a lease after September 30th. It did state that month-to-month would include an extra $100 added to the rent.
We're house hunting, so we were putting off signing a new lease. We received notice two days ago that as we haven't signed a new lease, our rent is going to be increased by $50, plus another $100 for being on a month-to-month. If I treat the notice from August as "official" notice, which I doubt it is, then the highest I could have assumed the rent would be raised is by $25, plus $100.
My questions:
Does a generic notice like the one from August constitute proper legal notice of an increase in rent, since it did not include my name or specific amounts?
Since my lease ended, does my landlord even have the obligation to give me the otherwise required 60-day notice that my rent would be increasing?
If I sign another lease, my rent will stay at the current rate. I don't want to do this because the apartment complex is now owned by a company, rather than a family, and the lease terms are particularly bad. For instance, one of the provisions in the lease is that we are not allowed to make negative comments about them on the Internet.
Do I have any legal standing to pay my rent at my former rate, along with a 30 day notice that I am moving out? Can they require the extra $150 from me, legally? Also, since it is now the 5th of October, will I have to pay all of November's rent since 30 days from now is November 5th? (The 6th by the time I actually give notice.) Can I prorate it? If I am required to pay for all of November, which rental rate would apply?
Thanks for any help.
My lease ended September 30, 2014. I've lived in this apartment over a decade. We received a notice on the door in August informing us we could reduce the amount our rent would increase at the end of the lease by signing a new lease early. This notice was generic, not addressed personally to me, and did not specify what the rent would be without a lease, or if we signed a lease after September 30th. It did state that month-to-month would include an extra $100 added to the rent.
We're house hunting, so we were putting off signing a new lease. We received notice two days ago that as we haven't signed a new lease, our rent is going to be increased by $50, plus another $100 for being on a month-to-month. If I treat the notice from August as "official" notice, which I doubt it is, then the highest I could have assumed the rent would be raised is by $25, plus $100.
My questions:
Does a generic notice like the one from August constitute proper legal notice of an increase in rent, since it did not include my name or specific amounts?
Since my lease ended, does my landlord even have the obligation to give me the otherwise required 60-day notice that my rent would be increasing?
If I sign another lease, my rent will stay at the current rate. I don't want to do this because the apartment complex is now owned by a company, rather than a family, and the lease terms are particularly bad. For instance, one of the provisions in the lease is that we are not allowed to make negative comments about them on the Internet.
Do I have any legal standing to pay my rent at my former rate, along with a 30 day notice that I am moving out? Can they require the extra $150 from me, legally? Also, since it is now the 5th of October, will I have to pay all of November's rent since 30 days from now is November 5th? (The 6th by the time I actually give notice.) Can I prorate it? If I am required to pay for all of November, which rental rate would apply?
Thanks for any help.
Moving Out: End of Lease, Huge Increase in Rent, Want to Leave--Georgia
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