Realtor Abuses/ARE

[dylanesque29.livejournal.com]

We are in the process of potentially ending our lease, and moving early. I received several emails from ARE over on College Ave today, requesting that the apartment be shown to prospective renters tonight/this week. I checked craigslist out of curiosity, and found many repeat ads for what was clearly our current apartment......WITH A JUNE MOVE-IN DATE, EVEN THOUGH THERE HAS BEEN NOTHING FINALIZED WITH OUR LANDLADY. I emailed the realtor and said absolutely not, the fact that this apartment is officially on the market for said street date was news to us, and said viewings this week would be out of the question. When I came home tonight, there was a...mess on the floor that wasn't there when I left COMPLETE WITH UNFAMILIAR FOOTPRINT, and I was the first person home!

So here's my question, and God knows I dug on the internet to find the answer, and came up blank: Is it legal for a realtor to solicit/show an apartment for an availability that doesn't exist, especially under protest from the tenants?

Comments

[tt02144.livejournal.com]

I find it interesting that you refer to the landlord/realtor as abusive, when you have stated that you intend to break your lease. Perhaps the mean old landlord doesn't want to get stuck with an empty apartment and no rental 'income'. Perhaps he is being very clear on the ambiguity of the move-in date. And the comment about deadbolting the front door is beyond absurd......this tenant would be the first to sue if the landlord could not enter the apartment to fix a broken pipe! Sure, they could give you more notice before showing your apartment, but you could NOT break your lease. Try to look at this from both sides.

[dylanesque29.livejournal.com]

"ven though you dont want to hear it, I dont think this landlord or his agents have done anything illegal or against your rights as a tenant."

Ohhhhh, yes she has. Just not this time.......

tt: You're reading between the lines of the original post too much. If we were breaking our lease without consent from our landlady, why would we tell her? Why would she have received notice from us? If we are released from our lease early, as I'm sure we will, it will be a mutual agreement. She's done many, many sketchy things and we could have broken the lease legally before several times, but she never "crossed the line" to the point where we felt like we had to move out ASAP until January.