Carlos Hernandez was on his way to a funeral center last year and made agreements to bury his mother when he received a “outrageous” phone call.
The 55-old community where she had lived demanded $ 5,000 from early lease termination costs for her apartment.
It was less than 24 hours since Hernandez discovered his mother, Leticia Farrer75, died in her sleep when the company, Avenida in Centerra, called to ask if he had looked through the lease. The determined that even the death of the tenant would not apologize to break the duration of the lease.
“How outrageous it is – and how low it is, when a family is at its lowest – to beat them up a little more,” said Hernandez, from Johnstown, in a recent interview. “It is clear that no one is planning to die, and that should not be a reason to charge an early termination costs for the lease.”
He hopes to be one of the last Colora Dance that sees such a problem.
After Hernandez had explained his story on social media, it caught the attention of the state Rep. Ron Weinberg. Weinberg, a Loveland Republican, introduced House Bill 1108 This legislative session. If adopted, it would specify that rental housing agreements cannot require fines for an early lease termination due to the death of the tenant.
The bill cleared its first hearing on Wednesday evening in a dual 11-2 votes.
Weinberg said he was “disgusting” when he first heard the story of Hernandez. He backed, he said, on the idea of having to go through the grief of the death of a parent, to guide their estate and then be hit by a “bloated bill.”
“I am all for free markets and capitalism, but there is good and wrong at the end of the day,” said Weinberg.
Greystar, the international rental company that Avenida owns, did not respond to a request for comment.
The company has also been charged by a former tenant in Colorado for alleged “junction rates” and by working and federal supervisors for the alleged to uphold the rental prices by using an algorithm and reporting misleading tenants about the costs of the costs of the costs of the costs Rent the properties.
Rep. Javier Mabrey, a Denver-Democrat and a housing lawyer, sponsors the account with Weinberg. He said he had a customer who was renting earlier this year, and the landlord tried to collect rent through the person’s brothers and sisters.
Mabrey and Weinberg won the support of the Colorado Apartment Association, which was clear that apartments -owners have not had to pursue a deportation to resume the ownership of the unity.
Rep. Then weighed, a Frederick Republican and a real estate manager, was one of the two votes against the measure last week. He said that he was worried that the measure would remove flexibility from owners of real estate and possibly otherwise rented units for months in a row, although he called the objectives of the account in general.
“Sometimes they are holidays (or) there are problems that simply have properties ready,” weighed before the mood. “I just love the aspect that I can work with the family as a good actor, as a good real estate manager – let them know that I do everything to get someone – so that they don’t have to pay rent. “
Hernandez said that the reimbursements of his mother’s landlord were eventually delegated, although he thought it was more about ‘Saving Face’, after a series of media reports through 9News And CBS News ColoradoThen do the right one. In the interview with the Denver Post, he wondered how many other people had to deal with similar situations, but did not fight public fights about the charges.
“I didn’t feel better about them as a company or as people, and it was not satisfactory either – because they are still free to do this legally,” said Hernandez.
By preventing other people from going through the experience, he said, “That is where the real satisfaction will come in.”
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