A crazy story happened to two young parents: when their landlord found out they had a baby, he asked them to pay extra for their “new roommate”.
The arrival of a baby in the life of a young couple shakes up the daily life, it is a period of doubts, learning, fatigue but also happiness! Postpartum is a complicated period to manage, but fortunately many women testify to prepare future mothers for this great upheaval.
And if there’s a lot of things we can prepare for, there are others that are really unexpected. A couple of young parents found themselves faced with an unusual and very disturbing situation…
After welcoming their first child, the couple received a visit from the owner of the house they are renting and they did not expect to receive this comment. When the latter discovered that they had had a baby, he hastened to tell them that they were going to have to pay more rent. The owner has decreed that their baby was a new roommate so he adds $75 or about €70 per month to the rent…Not knowing what to do, they turned to the Reddit forum to get the opinion of Internet users on this strange situation, to say the least!
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70 euros more on the rent for the birth of the baby
The couple living in Arizona tried to find out about this really strange practice, they say: “Today, we paid the rent and our landlord noticed our little one. He asked how old she was and briefly mentioned the supplement for our baby. We are renting a two bedroom house and paying ALL utilities so we don’t understand what he was talking about. When we got home, we looked at our rental contract. So they want to retroactively add $75 to every month they assumed our baby was home, and I’m not sure if that’s actually legal?”
Even though it was written on the lease that someone was raising the rent, many landlords and lawyers pointed out a fact in the comments: the lease is not federally legal. For example, one person explained: “You live in a 2 bedroom unit. You should legally, by occupancy standards, be able to have up to 5 people in each unit.” Another person added: “Everywhere I’ve lived, the only residents affected by this are people over 18. Otherwise it is discrimination based on family status.” Young parents will therefore have to approach organizations to organize their defence, like what you must always read the small writings at the bottom of the lease…