Tips for Tenants Moving Into an Apartment

If you are moving to any one of the Orlando apartments you need to follow these tips for making your new apartment life easy and simple.

• When you move into an apartment, you have to preserve a record of events that may be very important to you later.
• At the beginning of the tenancy, the landlord is entitled to charge you a first month's rent, a last month's rent, a security deposit. Make sure the last month's rent and security deposit should each be the same amount as the first month's rent.
• The purchase or installation cost of a lock or key. The law does not authorize a key deposit or any other kind of deposit.
• After you move in, conduct a comprehensive inspection and inventory of the condition of the apartment and make a complete record of its condition.
• If you gave a security deposit, the landlord is required to give you a statement of the condition of the apartment.
• Take this seriously and record even scratches and nail holes in the walls. The landlord may later accuse you of causing any condition which you don't list.

Make sure you keep all the copies of these statements and any additional list you send the landlord. Make sure you keep important records in a safe place. Don't leave them out in the open. Important tenancy records left out in the open have been known to disappear mysteriously, right around the time the landlord was in the apartment for some reason. If possible, keep a set of copies of these records at some location off the premises. These records are important, and not having them could cost you money later.