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Tom Patterson for the Emerald
Signing the lease is the easy part; knowing your rights once you’ve moved in is trickier.
Tenant rights often
neglected on campus
■ Legal experts say too frequently students get taken for a ride
by landlords anticipating limited renter recourse
By Sarah Cohen
for the Emerald
When Jessica Stedman’s apart
ment rental lease was up in June,
she cleaned the place and left, then
waited for her landlord to return
her deposit. It never came. Sted
man said that the rental period
passed without any problems, but
her landlord kept her deposit and
charged her for what she called
“bogus repairs.”
This may sound like a familiar
story to many college students who
rent homes and apartments in the
Eugene area. Stedman, a junior
{ { There are so many
rights I didn't know I
had—everyone should
know this stuff.
Jessica Stedman
junior, Spanish
Spanish major, paid her extra
charges because she felt she had no
other option.
“I didn’t take any pictures of the
place when I left, [so] I had no
proof,” she said.
Due to the frequency with which
problems between property man
agers and tenants arise, there are
services on campus to help stu
dents know their rights and stop
problems before they happen.
Nicole Miani is a lawyer for
ASUO Legal Services, a free serv
ice to all University students
which is located on the EMU’s
third floor. Miani helps students
recover their housing deposits, and
she said the most common com
plaints she hears from students are
about landlords not doing neces
sary repairs and students losing
their deposits.
Miani said her most important
piece of advice to students is to
photograph all pre-existing dam
age, put every complaint or corre
spondence with the landlord in
writing and to keep all copies.
“Courts don’t care how many
times you’ve called,” she said. “All
courts care about is documenta
tion.”
Miani also recommended not
signing a year lease if students are
not planning on remaining in Eu
gene for the summer, because get
ting out of a lease early can be very
costly. Instead, she said try and ne
gotiate — “offer to pay an extra $25
or $50 a month for a ten-month
lease instead of a year-long lease.”
Employees at the Rental Re
sources office on 16th Avenue and
Oak Street gave no comment when
questioned about how students can
avoid housing disputes, but a rep
resentative of Woodside Property
Management, who asked not to be
named, offered students some ad
vice on the subject.
The first thing he said students
can do to avoid problems is to pay
rent on time. He suggested that in a
large house, students could elect a
house manager with the responsi
bility of collecting rent from other
household members.
He said students should always
give adequate notice of vacating a
residence to avoid problems for
everyone and that they should
make sure to clean up before they
leave. Most importantly, however,
he said he wishes students would
understand that renting houses
and apartments is a process with
certain rules that need to be fol
Turn to Tenant rights, page 15B
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