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Uninhabitable House At The Time of Move In

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Uninhabitable House At The Time of Move In

Postby brotherscorp » Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:37 pm

In May, I had signed a group lease with five friends for a house (we're all college students) while tenants were still residing there. The lease and the landlord assured us that the house would be professionally cleaned and everything would be in working order when we moved in. We signed the lease, each paying $550 for the security deposit, $275 for the first month's rent. The contract was a one year lease from June to June but nobody actually went to move in to the house until July. The first person to arrive at the house in July had driven hours in a rental truck only to discover that the house they intended to move in was completely uninhabitable. Junk was strewn about the house as if nobody ever moved out, everything was filthy, and there were still broken light fixtures. Without any other place to go, the tenant was forced to move their belongings into this disgusting house, but not before they took pictures of the uninhabitable conditions. After two days of pestering the landlord to clean the place up, the landlord agreed to provide a vacant house in the area, one that belonged to his brother, until the other place was cleaned up. Fed up with the landlord and his lack of concern for what the tenant was going through, a friend agreed to give him shelter until things got figured out. After seeing the condition of the house and the interactions with the landlord, all six tenants want their money back, which adds up to $6600 (the total including first two months rent and the security deposit), and to be out of the lease. Any advice or recommendations as to how to handle this would be greatly appreciated. Going into only our second year of college, we are all very inexperienced with this kind of thing.
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