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I do not have 2 months to move --- I have 2 WEEKS! Furious as hell at realtor!
Holy crap --- I just found this out.
I am selling my house -- or rather, it has been sold.
This is part of a partition action; Iam the plantiff.
I got an email about a week ago via my atty; it was from my realtor --- the tank for the oil leaked and we had to have the tanks removed (I got slammed on the price of it) and the soil had to go out for testing.
The email said the tankscame back clean and that we close 2 weeks after the state gets the report. So that makes it about September 1 for the close.
In the email, there was a line that said "John is ready to go; BinNJ has 2 months to move." John is the person who lives upstairs in the apartment.
Well, I just spoke to the realtor,.
I called to ask her about apartments and if she got anywhere with a landlord who will accept a dog.
She said "Yes, we have to get you moving; you have to be out at the start of September."
I said "What? You said 2 months." She tells me she doesn't remember an email like that.
I had to get the email to read to her.
After i read the content of it, I said to her, "According to that email you sent Sunday, you said I had 2 months, not 2 weeks. You said 2 months" and then she goes "oh not what I meant; that's how I write emails..."
Holy shit.
I have a whole nest of problems here now -- I am a pet owner;i have a dog who is ill; a month ago I went to the vet for his annual and I find out he is in kidney failure. My vet told me he could hang in for a year or he could have fairly rapid deterioration.
(In the meanwhile realtor and I have been working on finding me an apartment; one plce was looking good about 2 weeks ago but now it's "no I don't want the dog" from the landlord. I find this out from her now, too????)
Second problem: I am self employed: no landlord is interested in self employed...unless I pay rent up front for one year's worth of rent!
Rents here suck as it is --- the cheapest thing there is goes for about $1100 a month, all utilities included --- holy crap; who's got that kind of money?
Third problem: where do I go now, with a dog, and who do I stay with???
The only person there is is a cousin in California! That's 3 thousand miles away from me!
What the eff do I do with all of my furniture? what do I do with everything in less than 2 weeks from now????
How could she even WORD an email like that??? Nobody proofreads?????
I am ready to flip and flip HARD.
Holy crap, what a bombshell! And suppose I never called her??? I called her on the offchance to see what headway she made with an apartment for me and now I find out what I found out???
This is an emergency. NOW what do I do???
Re: I do not have 2 months to move --- I have 2 WEEKS! Furious as hell at realtor!
Breathe. I am sorry this is happening to you.
Thinking short-term, look into kenneling your dog with the vet. Get yourself into an extended-stay hotel in your area and look into a storage facility. This will give you a plan of attack to stay busy AND it will be fruitful for it will aid you in making a short-term plan.
Once this ball is rolling, and you are moving along with it THEN you buy yourself time to find a long-term home for you and your doggy. You won't have to worry about the "stuff" you have as it will be in storage until you need it.
Write out a list of whatever you will need to move into your extended stay place with you. Then, begin boxing stuff up. Label each box with a list of contents on the top AND the side. You can get some free boxes from grocery stores, find out when they do their restocking.
Find out what items the extended stay has already...kitchen utensils? Pots? Pans? Etc.
If the vet cannot take your dog...then ask them where you dog can go? They may be a resource for other ideas.
Or, maybe the Extended Stay place allows animals (doubtful) but worth asking.
I'm sorry to hear about your troubles! Though I would have questioned "two months" from the get go. That is an unusually long time to close.
I remember from one of your previous posts that you have to sell this house. But has your realtor talked to the seller's agent about a more extended closing? Or could you live there 1-2 months after closing and pay rent?
I am a landlady. Different areas have different renting traditions and cultures. Like, where I live, landlords are more laid back about pets and (some) of them don't seem very concerned with people's income. Crazy to me on the income and not something I do, but there it is.
In fact, I recently had the other half of my duplex up for rent and was shocked how many people who contacted me that were like, "Oh, I'm moving to NOLA. Yay!" But I don't have a job there yet. Not self-employed. Just not working locally yet. Because laws are friendly to landlords here...fyi, I don't think they are in NJ...I was even okay with someone giving me first/last/security or 3 months prepay plus security if they were not employed yet. The two different tenants who wanted to rent the place and who I offered that option to went somewhere else...so I guess somebody was willing to take them for nothing more than first/security.
The family I just signed a lease with is self employed, though they also receive some SSI. Normally verifying employment and salary is part of my background check. But, in this case, I requested their last two years of tax returns as proof of their income. A lot of landlords will accept that for people who are self employed.
Especially if you are talking to a landlord who owns a specific house or a few houses vs. an apartment complex, there are a lot of negotiations you can do to take away some of their risk. Because that is essentially what they want. Here are some suggestions to offer:
--Offer to show tax returns and a history of bank statements to show your financial resources to pay rent
--Can you prepay some months of rent? That with the (above) might be enough to sway someone to take a chance on you.
--Do you have good credit? If so, have a copy of a recently run credit report showing that.
--If the landlord you mentioned seemed initially okay with a dog, but then changed their mind. Offer a slightly higher rent plus a pet deposit.
Another thought, since you are self employed, can you move your business somewhere cheaper to live or are you stuck to your location either by a brick/mortar store and/or specific clients? If you do have a brick/mortar store, I'd use that as ammo with a landlord also. Like, "As you can see, XYZ company has been well established for X years at 123 Main St. Here are my business and personal tax records." etc.
As an aside, I'm laughing a bit that some people have asked you to pay a full year of rent up front. That's illegal, especially for that length of time, in most parts of the country. And I'd bet dollars to doughnuts its definitely illegal in NJ. Though there is no use to point that out to anyone because their only response would be to flat out reject you. Which they are well within their rights to do.
Oh! I forgot to mention. You are more likely to find the kind of landlords I am talking about by looking at rental ads on Craig's List or one of the multitude of online sites, ie Zillow and Trulia also have sites just for rentals. HotPads. Apartments.com, though this site tends to be more apartments...but there are some homes on it.
I'd look on my own in addition to using an agent. Though this can be area specific. Where I live, few people advertise their house for rent with an agent.
Several years ago H and I had to find an apartment when we looked awful on paper. I was self-employed as a nanny while in school, and H was on unemployment. Even places well below our price range wouldn't look at us. What we found is that we had to go through Craigslist and find an owner or manager who had just a few properties and then meet them in person. We always dressed professionally and were friendly. People who stress the pay stub won't even consider you, but people who read you and look for the personal connection will. I'd also offer references, tax returns, and even bank statements. We were ultimately offered two of the apartments we visited, and neither asked for any sort of records.
Make sure to emphasize that your dog is elderly, not a puppy who will tear up the carpet and chew everything.
In my area most places are rented out just a week or two before vacancy, so you may have plenty of time. You can do it!
Nobody reads an email? HOW DID HE MISS THIS?!
Nobody apologized, nobody made an amend nobody did a thing!
What do I do? FIRE both their asses????
I have ben packing since start of June, when this house sold. I have more things to pack - my cousin in CA said "no; you don't have to be out right away; let the buyer evict you."
My head is spinning.
Whoa! That is amazingly BAD advice from your cousin. Renting from the seller after closing is perhaps a possibility...but only if it is discussed and agreed to ahead of time. When this happens, a rental amount is agreed upon and typically put into an escrow account. There are certainly addl. agreements and paperwork involved in an arrangement like this.
If you just aren't out on closing day and an agreement hasn't been made ahead of time...most sellers won't go through with closing and will be really angry about it. I would be. They might then agree to a brief postponement of the closing date or its even possible they would just completely walk away from the deal.
I get that you're pissed, but the email does say a Sept. 1 closing date. Why didn't you ask for clarification at what appears to be a discrepancy?
Either way, I agree with the others who recommended Craigslist. How many months could you prepay in rent? That might help some.
The law is different in this state. He has a different law out there and there is also liability -- this house has no homeowners insurance; the policy was closed out by me; we were supposed to be out August 5 and then all these delays with the oil tank happened.
This is incredibly bad.
On both their parts.
Nobody proofreads an email and nobody stipulates a final date to be in the home???
And somebody just hits send and forwards it to me. He didn't catch this error either???
The email never said "September 1." It said I had over 2 months to move!
Holy SHIT.
And to tell you the truth, is this "final day to be here" supposed to be given to me in other than an email -- maybe certified mail or something like it??? I don't know -- this to me is not "official" notice. Or am I wrong or is this how it's supposed to be, an email from the realtor?? I've never sold a home before.
I'm not sure the legalities of your situation so I can't comment on that part, just offer what advice I can.
Although I haven't sold a house, I have bought them. Generally speaking, the seller needs to be out of the house on or before the closing date. I don't think there is any notice given or required, other than the buyer and seller agreeing to the closing date. It sounds like maybe you didn't realize you needed to be out by closing?
A bit late now, but you should have kept insurance on the home until the closing date. If you can reinstate it...even if it just for a couple weeks...I would. Though certainly unlikely, if the house burns down before closing and you don't have insurance, you'll lose everything. The sale will no longer go through and you won't have any recovery for your loss. Sorry to add on to your stress!
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