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Got Lawyer?

Maybe law school and studying for the barzam came in handy after all.

I had to sign my apartment lease renewal today. My lease expires today and I've been going back and forth for 3 weeks now with the idiot girl who works in the leasing office to get her to actually do the renewal paperwork so I can sign the damn thing. Finally, on the very last day of my current lease, literally an hour before the office closes she finally has the paperwork done. I go to sign it and the renewal notice says "Discussed future billing of water, sewer, trash." Ummmm okay what? My rent currently includes water/sewer/trash and I pay for electric and gas separately. Dumb leasing office girl says "oh yeah, ummmm well they might start charging you separately for water but they probably won't so that clause just says we discussed it."

So I signed it. Good luck actually enforcing that clause bitches. Last time I checked, if they want to make a change so that rent no longer covers water/sewer/trash as outlined in my original lease agreement the wording that I agree to in the renewal will have to be more specific than "discussed future billing" and the girl who explains the clause will need to have a few more IQ points. Cause by signing the renewal with that clause and having that discussion with dumb girl all I did was acknowledge that she told me that the landlord is thinking about billing separately for water. Nothing in the signing or the conversation actually indicates my agreement to accept the change or my promise to go ahead and pay the water bill on my own. Clearly landlord didn't run this by a lawyer, and clearly he needs one. Maybe I should drop my resume in the box with my rent check tomorrow?

Full post as published by [ Useless Dicta ] on August 31, 2009 (boomark / email).