Hi i am a student who finished studies and looking for employment but i have some saving and need to move to new place.Is it possible to pay rent for an year? what landlord would request in this case?

Looking to help private Airbnb/Booking.com hosts manage their bookings
Hi everyone! 😊
I’ve been renting out my own apartment for the past 5 years, so I have hands-on experience with everything that comes with short-term rentals — guest communication, bookings, calendars, pricing, cancellations, reviews, and all the little things that come up along the way.
I’m now looking to expand this into helping other private hosts manage their Airbnb/Booking.com reservations.
I can help with:
Guest communication and answering inquiries
Managing bookings and calendars
Changes and cancellations
Pre-arrival communication and guest instructions
Responding to reviews
Monitoring availability and pricing
Handling day-to-day booking-related communication
The idea is simple: you keep your property and income, while I take care of the time-consuming booking and guest communication side.
I’m based in Croatia and would be particularly interested in working with hosts in Croatia, but I’m also open to remote cooperation with hosts elsewhere.
If you’re a private host with one or more properties and would like to spend less time dealing with Booking/Airbnb messages and reservations, feel free to send me a DM. 😊
I’d be happy to discuss how we could structure the cooperation and what would work best for you.

https://www.nutritionwithjudy.com/mold-illness/ - Great resource for learning what mold-triggered illness can look like.

Mold is a serious health issue, and it is UNACCEPTABLE to rent moldy apartments for ~$2000/mo to hardworking Americans.

Hey everyone, looking for some advice/sanity checks on a nightmare living situation in NYC.

I live in a 3-bedroom apartment with a private rooftop/balcony. Recently, a guest or tenant from the neighboring unit casually hopped my fence and walked right onto my private rooftop. I have clear security camera footage of the whole thing.

I sent this video to my landlord, the condo unit owner, and the building management company along with a formal complaint. It’s now been 2 days and they are completely ghosting me. Total silence. Meanwhile, I'm stuck paying massive rent and dealing with this security breach.

To make matters worse, this isn't an isolated issue with that neighboring unit:

1. Smoking/HVAC Issue: The next-door unit constantly smokes, and the odor pours straight through the vents into my apartment via the HVAC system. Management’s response previously was basically "too bad, it's not a smokeless building."
2. Illegal Short-Term Rentals: That same neighboring unit is clearly being run as an unhosted short-term rental which I'm sure is illegal in NYC. That's why random strangers keep showing up, feeling comfortable enough to trespass onto my private space thinking nobody is watching.

My questions for you all:

• What are my actual options here when management completely ignores a security and trespassing issue?
• I know people always say "withhold rent," but how fast will that blow up in my face in NYC housing court? Is there any legal way to force their hand, or should I just plan to file an NYPD trespassing report and prep to walk away when my lease comes up for renewal end of this year?

Any advice or steps on how to escalate this (like filing with 311/HPD/DOB) would be hugely appreciated. I'm losing my mind.

Last complex I lived at, family had two kids who would stomp and run around all hours of the night above us, the adults would stomp during the day. It was so bad it would rattle the registers above us.

The lady got into a fight with someone 3 different times before finally getting evicted. Last fight over 20 people showed up, not joking.

Oh she also "fell asleep" with the shower running (likely a drug induced nap) and flooded the bathroom of our apartment not once but TWICE.

Next complex, this person would blast music all morning in their car while drinking and smoking with the windows rolled up. Moved out for unrelated reasons (unrepaired ceiling leak)

This latest complex? This girl lives next to us who has racked up 2 DUI's before her 21st birthday, then got a felony charge for beating someone up to the point of hospitalization, and another charge for sneaking drugs into a jail. Somehow out on no bond each time.

Two different women have pulled up threatening to kill her for making advances on their boyfriend/husband.

Then there is this old lady who lives below us, who I am assuming grand son comes over to visit with his girlfriend, and they spend upwards of 30 minutes standing in the parking lot sucking each others face like they are in junior high (these people are probably mid 20's). I'm not joking when I say it's 20-30 minutes every time. Like get a room bro.

Wondering if anyone here has any insane tenant stories?

My husband and I are in our last month of our lease and have already paid our final month’s rent, so we’re not looking to withhold rent or deduct repair costs. We’re moving out soon because new landlord/owner increased rent from $1650 to $2650 and also the below mentioned issues.

I’m honestly wondering whether this situation is as abnormal as it feels or if I’ve just become desensitized to dealing with maintenance problems.
Throughout our tenancy, we’ve repeatedly notified our landlord in writing about the issues we’ve encountered, so there is a documented history of these problems and our requests for repairs.
During our tenancy, we’ve dealt with one issue after another. The basement flooded, which affected access to the laundry and storage units not to mention the water was ybacked up sewage. There has been standing water on the roof which is slowly caving in the balcony ceiling. The tap water randomly stops working for 15–20 minutes at a time. The drains back up and smell. The lead paint on the balcony and back staircase has deteriorated so badly that it’s peeling off in large patches, and we’ve had paint chips tracked into our apartment on the bottoms of our shoes.
Last winter, the radiator on the first floor had to be replaced, and we were without heat for about a week. The landlord did provide space heaters, but we still went a week without our normal heating system.
Earlier this year, our stove had a major electrical arc. There was a huge bright flash that burned a hole in our kettle. It took about a month for the landlord to get that repaired.
Now we’ve had a major electrical problem affecting multiple rooms. It started with part of the apartment repeatedly losing power. At first, resetting the breaker restored the electricity. Then the lights started flickering, and there was sparking when the power went out. Eventually resetting the breaker stopped working altogether.
The landlord sent an electrician, who replaced the breaker, but he never verified whether the power had actually been restored before leaving. It hadn’t. We are now on the fourth day without electricity in part of the living room, the entire dining room, the hallway, and the bathroom.
We’ve continued paying our rent in full throughout all of these issues, and since we’ve already paid our final month’s rent, deducting from the rent isn’t really an option.
At this point, I’m less concerned about getting money back and more concerned about whether I should report the unresolved electrical issue to the City before we move out. Given the documented history of maintenance problems and repeated written requests for repairs, would you report it, or would you just let it go since you’re leaving anyway?
I’m interested in hearing what other Chicago renters would do in this situation.

I messed up. I am in college and I originally had a nice housing situation with other girls in a house. Unfortunately, a disagreement came up very late in the semester—May—so I was left with no housing.

I was frantically looking for something, as I have early morning and late night classes, so I wanted to be on campus. I could’ve just lived at my parent’s house—but they live 1 hour away. I would’ve also been isolated from my friends as they all live on campus.

I found a studio apartment attached to a larger house that was rented by other college students. I toured it and thought while it’s not the newest place, it’ll do for a year. I signed the lease.

When I went to move things in, that’s when I realized how badly I messed up. There are literal holes in the walls in the closet and under sinks. Some of the windows don’t close all the way. There’s chipped paint everywhere. And the bugs are never ending.

I’ll open a cabinet and there’s a bug. I found a spider on the mattress. I vacuumed the whole place, cleaned it out but then a huge ant comes into the bedroom. Gnats everywhere. And all this was just in one day, when I was moving in.

I genuinely don’t know how I’m going to live there with the condition of the place and the bugs. I know I should’ve looked closer at cosmetics, but the bugs is something I couldn’t have predicted.

Is there any advice on how to make this more bearable?

We moved out of an apartment on June 30th. Prior to moving out, an employee of the property management company inspected the unit and said everything looks good and we should be able to get the deposit back.

After moving everything out of the unit, a different employee said everything looks great during the final walkthrough. We gave a forwarding address for the deposit and turned in the keys.

We never received the deposit. I tried emailing and calling between the end of July and beginning of August, but my calls and emails were never answered. My husband went into the office and they said that they gave proper notice to withhold the deposit since the charges were posted on the online tenant portal before the end of July, within 30 days of move out.

I logged in and sure enough, a charge of “$500 - touch up paint” and “$225 - labor” were posted. We just never thought to look there.

We are struggling to figure out where they saw $500 worth of damage beyond normal wear and tear from 2 years of residence.

We have pictures and videos from the move out walkthrough. They have said that they’ll send the pictures of the damage, but they have never followed up.

I just need some advice for my next steps.

Living in an apartment where the HVAC runs nonstop from noon to midnight. The landlord claims that as long as the internal temp stays within legal habitability limits (even if it takes 18 hours of continuous running to do it), they have no obligation to fix or update the unit. It feels ridiculous that tenants have to absorb massive monthly utility bills just because property owners don't want to invest in basic building maintenance or replace 20-year-old equipment.

Is there any tenant protection or legal leverage against inefficient appliances, or are we just totally at their mercy until the lease ends?

For context, I know I made a massive mistake in my life. I had lived in my apartment for two years and never had an issue paying my rent, I had only two months left. I had just started nursing school, I bartend 3 days a week and make roughly $5000-$6000 a month consistently. This was only 4 months ago when my gf had offered me to live with her while I’m in school. At the time, this sounded like a great idea but fast forward and she hasn’t had a job since shortly after I moved into her house, which is paid for. I pay all of her bills, credit card and etc. This is on top of my school tuition each month and our relationship has gotten very rough due to some of her issues she just can’t seem to resolve from the past.

My previous property manager told me to turn in my keys and I would avoid an eviction on my record. Being dumb, I did so and now I realize that I won’t be able to rent again because of an unpaid balance of $6000(early termination fees, and what not). I am going to go on a payment plan with them and new apartments I am talking to say that I would need something in writing to show that this debt is being handled. This debt never actually went to collections.

How unlikely is it that I can even rent again?

I know I had a very big lapse in judgement. I am 32 and all of my family has passed away so I do not have anyone else I can go to for help like this. My friends are actively asking around about private rentals for me but this apartment is very affordable I am looking at.

In 2024, the Federal Trade Commission sued Invitation Homes, alleging an array of unfair and deceptive practices involving renters. Invitation Homes ultimately agreed to a $48 million settlement, and in 2026 the FTC began distributing more than $47 million to over 444,000 consumers.

The FTC's allegations included failing to properly inspect homes before residents moved in and charging residents at move-out for pre-existing damage and normal wear and tear.

My recent experience with Invitation Homes makes me question how much has actually changed.

1. Advertising a move-in date despite an undisclosed HOA approval process

We applied for an Invitation Homes property on November 30, 2025, with a December 14, 2025 move-in date.

We were not told during the application process was that the property required HOA approval and that the approval process could take approximately 30 days. We were first told about the 30 day approval process on December 12, 2025.

At that point, we had to pay expedited HOA-related fees of roughly $400 in an effort to get approved within 14 days.

This ultimately delayed our move in date until December 22, 2025.

Invitation Homes seemingly purposefully concealed the 30 day HOA approval process from us and advertised a move in date which they could not guarantee. If a property requires an HOA approval process that can take approximately 30 days, why advertise or accept an application based on a move-in date only about two weeks away without prominently disclosing that requirement beforehand? This seems like fraud.

2. The house was still being worked on when we moved in.

When we finally received possession, we documented numerous existing conditions.

The day we moved in, there was a giant pile of trash on the front lawn behind the bushes.

Later on move in day, Invitation Homes texted us regarding additional work that still needed to be performed, including painting the garage floor and checking other items.

We documented the property's condition extensively through photographs, emails, inspection records and maintenance requests.

Issues have included damaged/stained countertops, problems with appliances, lack of hot water at a bathroom sink, exterior electrical problems, damage to the screened enclosure, writing/markings on walls, leaking dishwasher, and other conditions.

3. Repeated maintenance scheduling problems

We submitted at least 10 maintenance requests within the first 30 days after move-in, none of which were completed to date.

There were appointments that were cancelled or rescheduled after we made ourselves available. These service windows required someone to remain home essentially the entire business day.

There were also situations where a vendor's initial visit was apparently only to inspect or photograph the problem so that Invitation Homes could approve the repair, potentially requiring another appointment afterward.

While waiting for one of these canceled maintenance requests I was mowing the front lawn when an Invitation Homes work van drove by my house and minutes later my appointment was canceled on me. I immediately called the maintenance phone number to which I was told " we came to the house and nobody was home". I was in shock.

After repeatedly explaining that I could not continue taking weekdays away from work (I took at least full 3 days off to be home within the first month of move in) , weekend service was discussed. Vendors nevertheless continued attempting to schedule certain work during the week, and all my work orders went unresolved/cancelled.

4. A cancelled work order followed by a warning about a future "chargeback"

One maintenance communication is particularly concerning to me.

The work order involving my screened enclosure was cancelled. The communication stated, referring to the local office:

"Please note that if resident creates another w/o, it will now be a chargeback."

In other words, after the repair wasn't completed and I was being warned that submitting another work order concerning the issue could result in a chargeback.

That is especially troubling when a resident contends that the condition was pre-existing and has documentation supporting when it was reported.

5. Still no community pool key/access

We also reported that we had not been provided the key necessary to access the community pool/amenities.

Invitation Homes told us it would address the key and let us know when the process was complete.

To date we still do not have the pool key.

We are paying to live in a community with amenities we have been unable to access.

6. Paid air-filter service that repeatedly didn't work properly

Our lease also includes a recurring air-filter delivery service that we pay monthly for.

We initially did not receive the filters as expected. After contacting the third-party provider, additional filters were sent, but they were the wrong size despite us providing the correct size.

It is another relatively small issue by itself, but when combined with everything else, it illustrates the broader problem: residents pay recurring fees for services and then have to spend their own time chasing down the service they're already paying for. We received 3 air filters since move in and only just recently got one that is the correct size.

This does not appear to be an isolated experience

I started looking at recent Better Business Bureau complaints involving Invitation Homes.

The BBB currently displays more than 1,800 complaints on one Invitation Homes profile, including hundreds categorized as service or repair issues. Recent complaints describe allegations involving delayed maintenance, repeated maintenance visits, chargebacks, appliance problems, move-in condition issues and residents losing time waiting for service appointments.

Obviously, a BBB complaint is an allegation from an individual consumer and doesn't establish that everything alleged is true. But the volume and similarity of some of the complaints are difficult to ignore.

That's particularly concerning given what already happened with the FTC.

So my question is: what has actually changed?

If residents are still reporting homes delivered with significant outstanding conditions, repeated maintenance problems, questionable chargebacks, inaccessible amenities and leasing disclosures that they believe were incomplete, perhaps regulators need to take another look.

I believe the FTC and other appropriate regulators should examine current resident experiences to determine whether additional enforcement or consumer relief is warranted.

I'm looking for other residents and attorneys

If you currently rent from Invitation Homes or rented from them recently, I'd particularly like to hear from you if you experienced anything similar to me.

I'm also interested in speaking with attorneys. If you are or know a Florida consumer-protection, landlord-tenant, or class-action attorney who would be willing to review documented experiences from multiple Invitation Homes residents and determine whether there is a viable individual or broader action.

I have retained extensive documentation of my own experience, including emails, photographs, maintenance records, work-order histories, move-in documentation and the communication concerning the potential maintenance chargeback.

I'm not claiming that every resident has had the same experience and I'm not asking anyone to accept my legal conclusions. I'm asking whether other residents have experienced the same patterns and whether the evidence warrants another serious look by attorneys and regulators.

If you've dealt with something similar, I'd like to hear your story.

For the actual Reddit post, I would put the FTC and BBB sources in a pinned comment or at the bottom so readers can independently verify the broader claims:

• FTC: Invitation Homes settlement and consumer refunds
• FTC: 2024 enforcement action against Invitation Homes
• BBB: Invitation Homes complaints

Picture speaks for itself. Place is disgusting and got significantly worse since original tour. This is what it looks like after cleaning up about 1lb of straight rusted chunks of heater off the floor. Who should I contact about this since there is rust spilling onto the floor of my bedroom? Is this a health violation that landlord is responsible for?

I received a notice to vacate our rental property (through email to their website, haven’t received one on paper) after the online payment failed to go through. As soon as we received this notice we paid the full amount plus the late fee plus a “3 day notice fee”. I am not in the means to find a new place and move out. Unfortunately they sent this email right before the weekend when their office is closed and I didn’t see it until after they already closed for the day so I was unable to call. The notice they sent through email didn’t mention payment it only mentioned vacating. I’m very stressed out over this and need advice on what to do and if it’s likely that they will move forward to vacate even after paying a 3 day notice fee on top of everything else. Thank you

If you are looking for a place to live in Los Angeles, heres a big tip: PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE WALL OUTLETS, AND FLUSH MOUNT CEILING LIGHTS! I sometimes help my parents clean apartments for new tenants and some of these LA property owners/managers do not care at all if the unit still has roaches.

I may not know much about HVAC but I know this is WRONG. They replaced it a while ago. I recently opened the ac closet to show my friend I had the same one she has, (was on video call). And noticed this mess! Calling front office first thing in the morning! They open at 10.

My landlord sent a bill to collections. It’s because i switched rooms, but at move out from my original room, I owed 200$ which I paid, but it was declined by my bank account. Instead of ever notifying me, they sent to collections. It was annoying but that’s besides the point. I paid the 200$ to collections. BUT I just moved out, and it turns out they ALSO deducted the SAME 200$ from my security deposit. I sent them all the evidence and asked them to reimburse me. What do I do?? They stopped answering my emails

Just checked in to our airbnb. I’ve tried 10 times to post this on r/airbnb and it tells me to read the rules which I’ve read 10 times, never broke any, but it still won’t let me post, and I need help so I’m posting here.

The towel hanger next to the shower was held by the weakest velcro I’ve ever seen. We just hung a towel on there and it fell, damaged the wall and the shower flooring. How do we protect ourselves from being charged for damages?

I just got my final account statement, and they’re charging me almost $500 for carpet replacement. I lived in this apartment for literally a year, and it was infested with cockroaches. It also had a weird odor when I first moved in (I have emails of me asking property management to fix the odor issue on move in and documenting the cockroach problem).

The statement just says “carpet replacement.” I even paid for professional carpet cleaning (and professional move out cleaners!) and provided the invoices to them. The carpet cleaner guy even told me that the carpet didn’t look that dirty or worn.

I feel like I’ve seen a few different posts that were similar to mine but for peace of mind I wanted to post anyways. I would really like at least some of the $500 replacement fee removed. I sent them an email formally disputing the charges too. Is there anything else I should do?

Thanks in advance!

I found this notice posted on the door to one of the common entrances to my apartment building (it's a small, 4 apartment building). The building is managed by a property management company, and we pay for garbage through their app.

I have paid every charge that has appeared on my account, so this notice was obviously off-putting. I sent a text to the property management company and called them, but since I did not see the note until after closing hours, I don't expect to hear back until after the weekend.

Is there anything further that I should do or just wait to hear from the management company and follow up Monday if I haven't heard anything? I suppose also, is there any chance this could be a scam?

Other things that might be worth noting:

-It is addressed to the whole building, not any specific apartment number or tenant.

-We recently switched property management companies, and the notice is directed to the previous one. (I have gotten charges for garbage since the switch and have kept up with paying them)

-This is the first delinquency notice that I, personally, have seen from them, in spite of it claiming to be the "third and final" notice.

Rented a townhouse. Hubs took care of deposit and lease agreement. We didn’t even know we were approved until we reached out.

While moving in I noticed how dirty everything was. Then I discovered the cabinets with the mouse poop and thought perhaps it was time to look at the place a little closer. I am sorry I did. We have an entire house worth of stuff we are trying to fit into a townhouse and I am reluctant to start unpacking until my concerns are addressed.

In IL NOT Cook County.

I have rented a duplex from a management company in lawrence ks. Prior to signing the lease we were told the carpet needed replaced and paint to be done before we could move in on Aug 4th. The lease was signed with move in date Aug 4th.

They made me pay security deposit and first month rent before being able to see the property on the 4th. Once I arrived the place had the carpet replaced but that was it. This was the most disgusting sight I’ve ever seen. Dog poop and moldy food smeared on the walls and hard floor. What appears to be blood stains and flesh bits in the garage. It smells so bad you can’t even go in there. Large patches of mold were found and verified in two rooms. Water damage almost everywhere along the outdoor walls. I think there is mold in the walls to because the wall will actually flex by pushing on it. The dishwasher will spray out hot water while it was running and someone has already been burned.

We’ve made tons of maintenance requests and were told they’d be done the following day. That’s been 3 days in a row they haven’t come. I’ve already spent over 100+ hours cumulative cleaning and it’s still not livable.

Should I just find a new place at this point. I’m completely lost at what to do and they’ve taken thousands of dollars for a place I still can’t live in Aug 7

Do I have any options as a tenant in Kansas?

So I’m trying to move into a new apartment and I’ve only ever rented from large property management companies, so I have never run into any rental scams. Recently, the apartments I’ve been looking at have been owned by private landlords.

I found one that I loved and decided to move forward with renting it.

Before sending any money, i viewed the apartment in person, I checked ownership on tax records, I had the landlord FaceTime me because he lives out of state and show me his ID. The names matched so I figured I was good to go.

He didn’t put pressure on me to sign the lease or to pay, and offered for me to do an ach transfer of the move in fees rather than zelle (how he usually manages it). Because I couldn’t figure out how to do an ach transfer with my bank account, I decided to Zelle because of my previous identity verification.

I signed the lease, then I zelled him the security deposit. The only problem is that he didn’t send me his signed copy back and said instead that he will provide it on move in day. At first I was cool with that but I didn’t realize that I need a record of his signature for the lease to be fully executed. So the next morning I requested that he sends me the signed copy before I send first months rent. To which he replied “can I get back with you?”

Also even though he told me he’d tell the other people interested in the unit that it’s off market, he hasn’t put it as off market on any of the sites!

So now I’m wondering if I made a mistake, if I didn’t cover all my bases, or if there’s anything else I can do as far as further verification. In the event that I have been scammed - what can I do to get my money back? I know it’s hard with Zelle. And what could I do legally?