Last Tuesday my wife and I picked up the keys for a new apartment. We only came into town to get the keys so that when we returned with the movers, we'd be able to get in. We stopped quickly at the store and put a few things in the refrigerator, then turned around and drove back home.
When we returned with the movers on Saturday, we noticed that things had been taken from our refrigerator. There was a 12 pack of water that we bought to offer to the movers and a 6 pack of beer - one bottle was missing from each of these. There were no signs of forced entry, so it must have been somebody with a key. We had left behind some boxes of fragile things and our TV; all of these things were still there. We didn't think it was worth filing a police report, but called our leasing company first thing Monday morning when their offices opened.
The insist that nobody on their staff would have had the key or would have done something like this. I suggested that this must mean that the former tenants made copies of the key, and asked that the locks be changed. They said that we have to pay if we want the locks changed.
Do we have any legal right to demand that the locks be changed at their expense? Should we have filed a police report? Should we file one now so that there's a record of this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Submitted June 10, 2015 at 08:28PM by RPta2015 http://ift.tt/1MIw826 legaladvice
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