September Leases, I Don’t Know Why
Today the Daily has a nice story on letters like the Oppenheimer Properties one and other methods by which rental companies pressure students into October lease-signing. “We just get bombarded with phone calls with people asking about places and it seems earlier and earlier every year. We’re basically just satisfying the public,” one Oppenheimer spokesperson tells the Daily. That public would include Dan’s Houses tenants, one of whom told the Daily that he was required to renew by September 18. But this is all just student-driven competition, right?
they am become death, destroyer of worlds.
posted by Real Big on October 7th, 2005 at 9:15 pmHe was one of the most brilliant physicists of my time (yes, I’m old).
posted by Jonas on October 8th, 2005 at 4:51 pm“If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be the splendor of the Mighty One”
That’s my favorite Oppenheimer quote. Well, pseudo-quote. I like the way this thread is going.
posted by Anonymous on October 8th, 2005 at 10:48 pmon a related note, we received a call from our rental agency today to let us know that they are going to begin to show our apartment tomorrow at 10:30… a full 30 minutes after our deadline to renew our lease/sign the letter of intent to renew. and it is already listed on their website as available.
today’s call follows a call i made last week to our rental agency to say that we are interested in signing a new lease but are concerned because they have not addressed a single maintenance request. to their credit they sent someone over the next day to start working on our request. but then to blatantly threaten us less than a week later is totally unacceptable!
i have lived in many cities all over the country and have never been treated in such a poor manner and i have never been threatened to renew my lease. how they get away with this is beyond me.
posted by Meghan on October 17th, 2005 at 4:20 pmPrior to 10:30 tomorrow, you guys should hang a note, written in red marker, for the management company saying something like, “DEAR MANAGEMENT COMPANY: WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU FOR THREE WEEKS REGARDING THE RAT INFESTATION. WE WONDERED IF YOU GOT OUR MESSAGES? PLEASE FIX. WE HAVE ALREADY CALLED STUDENT LEGAL SERVICES AND THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. THANKS.” If that doesn’t scare potential tenants away, nothing will.
posted by Anna on October 17th, 2005 at 4:29 pm