Does a Tenant Have the Right to Extend a Lease
(Texas)
Hey guys, my girlfriend got caught in a pretty terrible situation with her apartment, and we need some legal advice.
So my girlfriend recently moved into her apartment on April 2nd this year. She signed and agreed to stay under a three month lease until July 31st.
Just last week, her friend who lives there with her got a text about three new girls moving into the apartment complex, but they didn't know which unit yet. Her friend told my girlfriend about it.
My girlfriend then contacted the leasing office, and they told her that after July 31st, she is going to have to find another room there to stay in and she would lose her room. They claim that one of those new girls will be taking her current room after the lease is up. Is that legal?
They also claim that they tried to contact her by phone but never actually called her. Here's where I thought, wouldn't leave her a note on her door, or mail her something if they couldn't contact her???
In any case, we don't think this is legal for them to tell her that she is going to have to give up her room to another tenant when she didn't even have the chance to extend... AND
She never agreed to give up her space OR sign an extension.
Here's part of the contract she signed: https://imgur.com/jerKCBe
We are praying we can figure this out. Please any advice is good advice!
Thank you so much
Re: Legal Apartment Advice
Does her lease give her any rights to automatic renewal on July 31?
If not then she has been given more than enough legal notice that her tenancy is terminated July 31 and she'll have to find another place to live by then.
That's the risk of taking short term rental agreements.
Re: Legal Apartment Advice
There's nothing confusing about the lease provision. It expressly states that the lease does not automatically renew. It requires notice from the tenant only if the tenant intends to vacate before the end of the lease term.
Perhaps you could learn to write using paragraphs, proper grammar and standard English words before you suggest that the writings of others aren't sufficiently clear.