So long story short:
I have found a room on Craigslist about a year and a half ago and I have been living with a mom (my landlord), her son, and 3 other roommates. The landlord subleases the rooms in her townhome so that she can afford the mortgage. The landlord and I have not had any issues for the majority of the time I have been living there.
About 6 months ago, the landlord had a friend [40 F] who needed a place to stay because she was going through a breakup with her boyfriend. Her friend was not hard to live with at all. Two months ago, her friend asked if her son [21 M] could live in the house with us temporarily. The son was not a problem first, but then after a month of living here, we saw his true colors. So in a nutshell, he has a criminal record, has a warrant for his arrest, refuses to work or go to school, he leeches off of people, takes people's food in the refrigerator, is loud and inconsiderate, and is an overall deadbeat. I addressed my problems with the landlord and she agreed that he was causing problems. About a week ago, I had a huge verbal fight with him and I told the landlord that I wish to move out in a month.
Recently I had another roomate in the house tell me that the landlord's friend and her son does and did not pay rent here and was too nice to kick them. This is not fair for a paying tenant such as myself to put up with them. The landlord is mad at me because she will be losing money because I am deciding to move. She sent a group text on Sunday saying that I, her friend, and her son have two weeks to move out of the house.
According to my state's law, I legally have 30 days to move out. I typed a contract and used a "month to month tenant to landlord termination agreement template" I downloaded from a legal website. I pretty much wrote out that I have one month to move and that I will be trying to find a place to move out before the month. I typed out that I will pay her weekly (my usually rent divided by 4 weeks) and that she and I needed to sign it so that I won't come home one day with my stuff on the side of the curb or a sheriff escorting me out of the property. Unfortunately when I moved in, we did not have a tenant-landlord rental agreement, it was all cash and verbal agreements.
So she read her email this morning with the contract attached and she got really offended. I did not think she will be offended because it was just something for me to make sure that the sheriff doesn't come and evict me in two weeks. She agreed to that I can stay up until 30 days but she doesn't want my money, so pretty much I can be living here free for 30 days. I have no idea why she doesn't want my money given her current financial situation. I think she was offended because I have been giving her cash every month with only verbal agreements. She said that she doesn't trust me anymore and can't wait until I am out of her house. She said that the contract made her look like she is untrustworthy, which I did not intend it to be.
Anyway, who is right in this situation? Did I come across as really rude? Was the contract necessary? I am curious as to why she doesn't want my money anymore? Why is she getting offended by a simple contract that was built from a template on a legal website? Thoughts and opinions? This turned out better for me, but now I feel really uncomfortable living here.
TL;DR - My landlord told me to leave the house in two weeks, as a paying tenant I legally have 30 days to vacate the premises. I wrote a contract to her and she got really offended and saw it as an offensive rude gesture. Who is right here?
Submitted November 03, 2016 at 12:28AM by thesquarerootof1 http://ift.tt/2eAP2wZ relationships
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