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For my sanity: am I overreacting?
The apartment complex I’ve been living in for 4 years suddenly changed the parking policy and, one week after sending the email mentioning the change, towed my wife’s car that cost us $300 to get back.
We consider this an overzealous enforcement of an aggressive policy (the garage is never more than half full), and we are extremely pissed, but management is not playing ball with us after we asked for them to give us a credit.
We’re moving out now, so if we short-pay our last month’s rent by the amount of the impound invoice, what are the ways it could bite us in the butt?
We pretty much have zero recourse otherwise.
@yofuckreddit was almost there:
But just leave the reviews, and forget the misdemeanor stuff. Why risk exposing yourself to liability, when you can hurt them more, legally? Just one vacant apartment that takes them an extra month to fill will cost them more than you could safely do in damage, and "Google 'apartment towing scams'" plus your personal details is the sort of review comment that will turn careful tenants away for a decade. Nobody wants to trust a landlord who gets kickbacks from auto theft.
So that takes care of revenge. As for recourse? Check your local laws. In Texas, for example, there's all sorts of fun bits about "The landlord has the burden of proving that the tenant received a copy of the rule or policy change." (preceding a short list of options that doesn't include email), as well as "may not be effective before the 14th day after the date notice of the change is delivered to the tenant, unless the change is the result of a construction or utility emergency", plus a whole swath of signage requirements, plus a $100 civil penalty on top of the towing fee they'd owe you. This is all small-claims-court/credit-report-level stuff either way you take it, but unless you're about to miss a bill payment for lack of $300 I'd say it's better to be pressing a claim than defending against one.
This is very interesting… I may reply back on top of my email mentioning a few of these details.
Thanks.
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