My daughter is nearing the end of her apartment rental in Winter Park, Florida. The written rental agreement states she must thoroughly clean all areas in the apartment and repair or patch any holes in the walls. She is required to submit in writing an intent to vacate 60 days prior to leaving. She just received the written vacate instructions and signature document to sign and submit within the 60 days. The document states, “carpets shall be professionally cleaned and a receipt submitted management at final walk through” and “all wall surfaces must be patched and painted”. She contacted the management office to question the statements in the vacate agreement that do not appear in the original lease agreement. They verbally told her to disregard what is written and that it only means patch holes and vacuum carpet. Is this legal and what do you advise her to do?
Sorry - but its not proper to provide you advice to pass on to her based on how you relate her issues. The advice would be that if SHE has legal questions about her lease she will need to hire a tenant lawyer to review it with her and go from there. If its not important enough to spend the money to hire a lawyer to review it and provide proper advice then that speaks to the importance of controverting the issue at all. In that case she should go the extra mile to do what the document says to eliminate any legal issues from arising.
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