For anyone who’s wondering: this act protects anyone regardless of sex, gender, or sexual orientation. The name was chosen back in 1994 when the bill for the act was first introduced
@hbgriss you.. do realize you need to have written confirmation from a DV advocate or doctor for this, right? What scammer is going to go through multiple appointments with either pretending to be in an abusive situation just to break a lease for free? If anyone would, the number would be a miniscule percentage compared to the number of people whose lives can be saved with this. Seriously. "Scammers" my ass. I'd rather this be in place to provide security and safety for those escaping domestic violence than it not be in place because boo hoo a landlord lost a little money after contributing to artificially inflating the cost of housing to begin with 🤷♀️
@@hbgriss What kind of person learns about an act that helps protect people in dangerous situations and chooses to focus on the miniscule number of scammers who may or may not be able to take advantage of it? Get a better personality cuz ew.
I personally used it. But even after getting a letter from women and gender advocates, the landlord still tried to push back asking for police case evidence. My advocate needed to argue that it was my right as a harassment victim.
Wow, can' believe some landlords can be this greedy. You're saying you are being harassed, got a credible letter and your landlord says 'You need to be involved (and possibly traumatized) in sth that requires the police'.
Younger me should have known this. The physical abuse didn't ramp up until I was stuck in a lease with him. U went to the office and begged the ladies for help. They knew the neighbors had called the police multiple times. They took pity on me. They somehow let me off the lease without letting him know. I was so thankful to those women and I still am to this day. Needless to say he was absolutely furious.
There are also laws that state landlords HAVE to remove infestations. If they don't then you can legally break your lease, because they are negligent in their portion if the lease each state has different codes for it. But if you are infested collect proof that you have emailed and texted the landlord and he has refused to fix it, he only has a certain ammount if time to get it done then you can leave without paying
This is really good to know.. I wish I had known it two years ago honestly. My ex is still cyber stalking me but thankfully hasn't been able to find out where I currently live. If he does though.. I'll definitely be utilizing this to ensure he can't get to me. Thank you for putting this out here 💜
What kind of psychopath ex did u have? 😬 like i had a friend who had the worst bf... he was borderline abusive, never hit her but he did verbally abused her for years and she still was w him... he even cheated on her and forgave him time after time after time, like i get love but when some1 disrespects so for so long, u gotta put yourself first for your own sanity and happiness.. i guess many are afraid they wont find the same love again but honestly many can do much better... be safe and hope ur ex gets his own karma cause trust me, they all do
@@xxkarlosxxxxxx7233 uhhh one I was terrified to leave for multiple years who recently outed himself as a major transphobe (misgendering and deadnaming someone I used to be friends with.. to claim that I cheated on him with said friend by hugging her while she cried???), who financially and emotionally abused me and who gave zero fucks about his dad spitting on me and threatening to kill me in vivid detail on a near nightly basis. That's just scraping the top too lol it was a mess. He's fucked up. But now that his recent ex left him he's back on his bullshit of making fake accounts to try to stalk me (and her) on social media and harass us. I was terrified of leaving because of these threats.. and because none of it came from him I still saw him through rose colored glasses. I viewed him as a fellow victim of his parents and wanted to get both of us out. It took a lot of time and therapy to realize he wasn't just a victim. He made sure I wasn't financially stable and couldn't afford to leave on my own and I was terrified of going back to my family because well.. I have absudive family members as well. And being in that hell hole was better than being on the streets in my eyes. But I'm doing a lot better now and can at least talk about what I went through without having a full on breakdown. I still struggle with diagnosed PTSD from everything I experienced there, but I'm in the process of healing. It's been four years now, I'm engaged to a wonderful person who was literally my legs for a while when my back problems were at their worst and who I wouldn't trade for the world. Things do get better, you just gotta get through the trials in between.
Pretty sure you can break your lease when the reason is an infestation of bugs or rodents as well. But I think that all depends on your state and local municipalities.
yeah, if your landlord is not providing you adequate living conditions, they are breaking their end of the lease. you can break that lease. 8000$ is a lot of money to just... laugh about later... wtf.
If your home is burglarized or even a broken window you can attribute to someone trying to break in,”making you sacred to be in the said dwelling “you can break lease with zero penalty
Strictly for the critters... it could also have been considered a breach of your warranty of habitability... granted, the court would have wanted you to give the landlord an opportunity to mitigate the issue, but it was to no avail, their "breach" would have let you out of the lease.
If you have a payment program through seller financing, go to the homeowner and explain you and/or your children are being abused by your spouse. If you have any evidence like a police report you can show them. This is what I did with my first husband and she bought back my 50% which gave me the money to leave and I left without him knowing. Bless that lady so much she helped save my girls from a very bad person whose friends were s3x offenders 😢
Boric Acid powder (as long as you don't have pets) or Diatomaceous Earth if you do. Neither of these are neurotoxins, unlike most commercial pesticides. They work on the physical level and dehydrate certain pests.
Damn... i wish I knew about this... As shit as my landlord was at the time, he at least took me seriously when I told him ahead of time I was kicking out my ex and expected some bad shit to happen. Before I fully got him out he stole some of my stuff and got up in my face yelling at me the last day he was in there moving shit out. And as soon as he was out the landlord changed the locks for me and told me to report if he tried to come onto the apartment property. Sure enough he did, tried to get into the apartment to "get his mail". He also tried to get me kicked out by telling the landlord I was smoking weed and doing other drugs.
I broke my lease because I had a ton of roaches and the other tenants were involved with drugs and there were homeless people camped out like they didn’t mind me leaving and were surprised I moved in in the first place but I moved across the country and showed up after driving for 16 hours and didn’t know what I got myself into and what to do. Then I broke my lease because the elderly people who owned the house and rented the rooms to college students gave the code to a homeless man who had just been serving time for eating someone’s nose and had been arrested for public intoxication and trespassing and harassing women and he moved in while I was sleeping home alone and he hadn’t signed a lease or paid a deposit and the cops got him out of the house, but the people who owned the house didn’t want to change the locks and gave him $1,000 not to come back. I broke my lease again but this time I was moving back home and found a job and left a few months early and I had to pay rent and utilities even though I wasn’t there and it sucked, but they were student housing and if you moved out in the spring, they still wanted your money, so they had most of their tenants breaking their leases. I left in April and the year before, a lot of people left in May. They paid and lived with their parents for the summer or moved and paid. I was stressed about it, but I broke my lease easily 2/3 times and got my deposit back.
There is a rule called “implied warranty of habitability” a landlord must provide a living space that is safe and habitable for tenants and this warranty CANNOT be waived. If you have informed your LL and they do nothing you can choose to vacate or fix the problem and seek reimbursement.
This is way more common than people think. I live in North America, and I find it way too normalized for women to be scared of coming home, and there are way too many people seeking to blame the victim instead of fixing the problem by dealing out consequences to the perpetrator.
I was able to break my lease because my neighbor kept calling the police on me because my kids were opening and closing the doors and walking downstairs to catch the bus. She would even leave notes on my door about the noise my kids made closing the closer door.
No ma'am, roach infestations are dangerous, too. You can end up with the following diseases Campylobacteriosis, Cholera, Dysentery, Gastroenteritis, Giardia, Leprosy, Listeriosis, and Salmonellosis.
Also check your current state and county rules for public housing (rent) there is housing code enforcement, safety concerns regarding the premise you reside in can warrant you to break the leases or not pay rent.
Also, roaches are life threatening. They can carry pathogenic microbes that cause diarrhea and can trigger an asthma attack, according to an article published by University of Kentucky.
Me to. I just spray roach spray outside my apartment my neighbor is so gross smoking cigs and it comes into my apartment so I was finally done and sprayed roach spray it was the only thing I had. I'm done. I also have roaches in my house, drug addicts live here. I finally broke down and told managment I'm not paying rent he won't even get back to me if my rent check went through so yes I'm done. Also they say don't smoke weed here yet allow people to smoke weed here...so what is it smoke weed or not smoke weed? Guess they have black and white thinking. We get notes on our door, have city inspections, every time I walk outside people are selling drugs. Just don't move to CA it's fake and ghetto and I'm over it.
VAWA only applies to properties that are federally subsidized, though many states have similar statutes for non-subsidized properties. Please consult a lawyer that is licensed to practice law in the state you live in.
I was in a similar situation. Where its wasn’t infested with roaches but it was so old without renovation that I started getting skin issues that was really bad. So yes, please don’t stay in places like that. It’s not worth it.
Well, I do have an infestation problem. Ants we called pest control, and they were gone for 3 days max. Pest control turned out to be some scam that didn't properly do the job. They sprayed the whole house but didnt think to close the ant entry points or homes. Well, honestly, I always feel bad killing ants. I find the cool, tiny beings, but when they infest a house, it's infuriating. They crawl all over tables and walls along their invisible roads, i swear all the ants keep walking in an invisible line. Also we live in a community in the dessert so I think the ant came from outside or where here before our house was built so I think it's the people who built the houses and didn't make them properly sealed from ants.
My fiance and I unknowingly moved into a roach infested apt, I'm allergic to roaches, if ingot a letter from my Dr could I have gotten us out of our lease? Btw we have long moved out if that place and into a much nicer one lol just wondering if I ever get in a situation like that again
You know that after a situation like that you have to throw out all your things because otherwise, you carry them and their eggs into your new place. Seems that for such conditions and liability, you should not only be able to break your lease at no cost, but sue them as well.
We had mice & the property manager didn’t believe anyone I showed proof to! They were literally running across my son’s bed, eventually I stopped paying rent moved in with my boyfriend & just waited for them to evict me. The health department wouldn’t even call me back. We put up with it for 3 yrs, we had to ply exterminator & caught 20 of them😐🤢….
I'm sure she tried this at first, but if you have a bug problem call matanance before doing anything else. It's typically not a reason to break a lease.
not to take away from this, but depending on how bad the roach situation is and what your housing code says, it could be a constructive eviction entitling you to terminate your lease
My brother's neighbor, who is the age of our grandma, has been hitting on him non-stop since he moved in, including waiting outside his door in the morning as soon as she hears his shower turn off, despite him doing everything in his power to get her to stop. Does this apply to him as well? Or is this outside of the scope?
Can this be used for a person that pays 1/2 rent, then when they moved in, the other renter technically took over the entire house and confines you to your room only. Unable to use the rest of the house 50/50 as agreed?
This doesn't seem like it help my situation. I moved to a new area a couple years ago I though it was better than previous years but. My car got broken into and destroyed i want out so bad but I can't afford to break my lease. I just don't want to be in fear of my things getting taken everyday!
This is actually super important to us because me and my husband have been holding back from using this act to move out from his abusive parents household. This can also speed up your wait on affordable housing lists.
