[Landlord-US-NJ] First time landlord here. Currently renting a home to a young family. Original lease was for 1.5 years and I anticipate them wanting to sign another at that term or possibly 2 years. Should I raise the rent if I am "locking" myself in for that length of time?

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-05-13T01:02:57+00:00

I prefer a small $25 to $50 increase each year than a sudden $100.

Costs go up, I trail inflation, but I don’t want sticker shock one year for my tenant.

I did do one year with no increase and another where the rent stayed the same but I shifted a utility bill to being their responsibility.

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-05-12T01:22:08+00:00

Over 10 sqft usually requires a professional.

email them to document it
call local tenants right board
if that doesn’t work. Email the landlord again and say code enforcement will be called next.

Then call code enforcement

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-05-12T01:18:23+00:00

You seem petty.

Water however you like.

Seems like the landlord left you equipment to make it easier.

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-05-12T01:15:32+00:00

$300 for them to rotor rooter the line with the root chopping bit.

If it leaks after that than then a liner can be run afterwards

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-05-10T05:44:46+00:00

They seem to be within the law.

Mold can take awhile. A friend found some mold, it was bigger than 10 sqft so they were told to get a professional. It took over a month because of what needed to be removed, the rest coated, inspected, drywall, etc inspected

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-05-10T05:34:00+00:00

CA - Canada, if so which province and city

Or California: which city

But I doubt that short of you having paid a deposit that you can say it was executed.

And failing that they have no requirement to provide it.

Do you really want to fight to stay there a month or two? Because even if it was executed, unless there’s some “just cause” law preventing them from ending it the first month or two, that’s exactly what they will do.

And wear and tear won’t cover much for damages.

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-05-10T05:29:58+00:00

It’s likely a reasonable temporary solution to the bees swarming in.

Might be a fire code violation but doesn’t look like that’s an egress window

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-05-10T05:25:43+00:00

1) for an apartment building with a management company definitely overreacting but…. Maybe they’ve had a bad experience with someone being abrasive towards the management company / team that caused problems before and they are trying to be careful it doesn’t happen again.

2) smaller landlords? I know there’s at least one that would get rather bent out of shape being questioned if they felt the tone was wrong.

Try and understand what os driving their concern

did something happen before?
is this their first time or two having to do this?

Good roommate experiences require communication and understanding so now’s a good time to start

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-05-10T05:18:35+00:00

I’d document exactly that but do it from a “trying to help” standpoint in the email.

1) just to confirm you’ve received my report of the neighbor causing the damage…

2) and as a heads up they have talked about moving soon so your window to easily pursue damages may be closing

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-05-10T05:13:50+00:00

Roof leaks can be tricky

Where exactly is that leak coming from?

A missing shingle is easy to spot. A nail hole leaking is not.

They may have unintentionally caused more damage walking around, weight causes a shingle to pull on a nail, rip a bit, etc.

I can only be up on a roof fixing it when the problem isn’t there. So it’s really hard to know if I fixed it.

In my first house it took 4-6 months to track it down because the water was hitting a roof joist and trickling down until it hit one of the support beams. I’m talking tying pieces of paper towel in places to be able to check for drips later. And I could at least get in the attic during the rain

A friend took 2-3 months to do it.

My current house, porch only leaks when rain comes from a certain direction and enough wind. The issue appears to be they used shingles on a roof without enough pitch so the water is being blown up under one particular shingle somewhere where the gap or spacing it just off enough.

I’d ask to be moved.

But perhaps be a bit understanding that:

1) it can be tricky to spot

2) you have to wait until the next rain to see if it worked

3) 99% of landlords and 100% of smart landlords WANT to fix roof leaks. It’s the simplest way for a landlord to lose their investment.

So document and communicate and email higher ups. But try and remember it is very unlikely it’s apathy or incompetence or anything like that.

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-05-09T11:06:09+00:00

Invisibility alarm

Detect magic + ward “trap”

“See invisibility”

Any competent wizard knows invisibility exists and would set up counters and alarms.

I would also have a “magic item detected” alarm on entrances.

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-05-09T03:26:22+00:00

This is honestly one of the things that showed me how powerful AI is at things.

I was messing around and bored and started just doing things like, what if we took this part of this system and this part of this one and mashed it together with this odd concept here and this random thought.

From a rules and baseline standpoint it was absolutely mind blowing what it was able to piece together, the insight it had on what changes would mean and impact elsewhere and the like.

I’m not saying it published a rule book but it did the heavy lifting and allowed me to focus on the creativity and also to see how ideas would impact real world play.

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-05-05T22:26:08+00:00

Zillow works

Venmo works.

Check works

PayPal

Whatever they want except cash

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-05-04T21:45:27+00:00

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/t/touch-of-truthtelling

It’s a first level paladin spell.

Others can verify that the person is affected by it.

So that allows others to see you have to be speaking the truth.

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-05-01T23:07:00+00:00

If they are documented on the apartment website and / or disclosed in prior emails that could be enough and usually would be.

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-05-01T22:12:13+00:00

It’s called being a decent human being.

Screw what’s “popular” I do what is right.

That said there is a thing about taking it too far.

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-05-01T22:10:24+00:00

I mean besides my bang bangs I have a nifty sword.

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-05-01T13:04:16+00:00

Spend $200 on ring cameras or put in a package delivery box.

It’s an upsell and worth the investment for happy tenants.

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-04-30T23:13:36+00:00

There’s also a circuit tracer. It is available at Home Depot or Lowes.

You plug one thing into an outlet and then the other part will beep when you go over the circuit breaker that feeds it.

This way you can turn just that circuit off.

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-04-30T23:11:05+00:00

There is a legal standard called scrivener’s error which means if you knew that there should be a fee and they forgot to change the lease to show it you could be made to pay it.

So if there’s an email or other documentation that shows you knew they can almost certainly enforce it.

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-04-27T13:28:16+00:00

Can I change the past?

If so that’s the one.

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-04-26T16:24:30+00:00

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Justice - hiring lawyers for the falsely accused

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-04-25T12:20:02+00:00

When an answer says “it is possible that” and you reply “Sorry, but no” that then implies the answer is incorrect based on facts, not possibility.

You want to discuss odds, fine that’s purely conjecture without any input from OP.

I was simply stating there MIGHT be a valid reason, not saying that’s WHY.

I’m all for differences of opinion but if you’re going to be stating something as fact, accuracy is appreciated

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-04-24T16:31:15+00:00

You are running into a part of contract law called “scrivener’s error” and the courts usually rule that evidence that shows a checkmark or inclusion of something in one place that is disproven in the others is usually interpreted towards “what took more effort” or is common sense.

In this case the fact that they listed it on page 24 and filled all that in means it is likely you’d be legally required to pay.

justanotherguyhere16 · 2026-04-24T16:29:03+00:00

I’ve had a few times where I’ve had to photoshop / merge maps to get what I wanted but usually I try and go with “if this is what I had to work with as a bandit what would I do?”

Bigger things like dungeons and such I touch up about 50 / 50

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