I get home today to find a 10-day quit-or-comply notice on my door.
WTF?
It turns out they somehow ‘forgot’ my cat deposit/etc, and now want another pet deposit, plus they want to start charging $10/month for pet-rent. I went down, and the lady flips through the paperwork several times, before she finally finds a deposit in my name that says “$400 total, $200S, $200P”. I also point out that my lease is not up for renewal, so they can’t start charging extra until it is. While I’m waiting for her to look up these basic facts, another 2 tenants in the same position of having paid their deposits years ago, and now getting nastygrams, show up to complain as well.
Without something in writing from these people appologizing for their terrible record keeping, I’m not inclined to trust that they won’t still be trying to evict me in 10 days. Time to call the Tenants Union of Washington State, I think.
And starting the painful process of sorting through 4 years of piled up “too important to throw away” papers that I didn’t get sorted properly when they first came in. D’oh. If lawyers end up involved, they’ll want those papers, I’m sure.
UPDATE: Found the original lease, which indeed has the check box marked for pet deposit paid. When I go down to show her where to look on her copy, there are 2 other people waiting to do the same basic thing, and a 4th shows up before she gets back. She accepts are proof with good grace and tries to explain that the corporate office is in texas, and is unresponsive, and that we should expect things to get worse, and to have lots of empty apartments in the near future. oh joy.
