I recently moved into a subleased apartment with tenet A.
Prior to my move in, I negotiated that I pay "$600 a month, and that I be added to the lease for the duration of the time I’m there" (I fall under the SCRA, which allows me to terminate the lease with no penalties)
Immediately, the issues began.
Tenet A refused to use electronic payments or checks because and I qoute "I don’t know what that is"
For the first week of move in, I asked him about adding me to the lease, and he kept on insisting "the landlords chill like that, I’ll speak to him tho"
Due to the nastiness of the property(he’s shitting on the toilet rim, failed to wash his beard trimmings from the sink every morning and had dishes filled with cheese in the kitchen sink sit for three weeks without cleaning it)
Three weeks went by, and I asked him to verify that I was added to the lease.
His response was "idk, I didn’t talk to the LL about adding you to the lease, I just said you were staying for a while"
I was irritated, so I looked up the property deed info and cross referenced it to the local MLS / realtor portfolios to find the LL.
This information is all legal and public.
I texted tenet A for confirmation and his response was as as follows
"First off I don’t remember his name I just have his number saved and secondly why are you hunting down the landlord is my word just untrustworthy when I said he’s fine with it or are you trying to go behind my back on something"
NTA. Ridiculous that you wouldn’t be allowed to contact the landlord.
It’s also under “HI Rev Stat § 521-43”
I have to be legally provided the contact information of the landlord.
If it’s literally the law – why are you concerned about appearing to be an asshole?
It’s because he’s justifying his actions as part of a savior complex.
The only reason why I’m subletting this shithole room, is because I’m on a short tether to meet my workplace (MSC ship) in a short time and the Hawaii market is extremely cutthroat.
He took me in under the condition that I “be available to pick up grocies from the store or other items as defined later out do the pity of my heart” and I changed that into a written lease agreement so I wouldn’t have to deal with his shit.
Sounds awful. Hope the time passes quickly.
I’m treating this shit like prison, and I’m not in the apartment from 0430 am to 2330 every day.
I’ve picked up surfing
Five hours a day 🤦🏻♂️ and most of that spent sleeping. On the bright side, you’ll probably get pretty good at surfing!
Do you mean Tenant?
NTA