We signed a Rent Application with Barcelona Apartment at Houston, TX, which is part of the properties of AIMCO Property L.P., a publicly traded company, on November 1, 2003. We then later signed an Apartment Lease Contract with the same apartment on November 19, 2003. We assumed that they put in the terms we agreed upon the Rent Application when we signed the Apartment Lease Contract.
However, when we reviewed the Apartment Lease Contract, we found that the terms on the lease are different than what they wrote down on the Completed Lease Contract Information on Rent Application.
The most important thing is the lease term on the Apartment Lease Contract begins on 20th day of November 2003, and ends at the midnight the 31st day of January 2005. If December 2003 is the first month of the lease, then altogether the lease is for fourteen months. On the application, the term is only for thirteen months.
Besides, the lease doesn’t mention the last month free promised and also wrote on the application. And the prorated rent of the days in November 2003 was promised to be free too.
We just hope to know whether the apartment management can sign us with a lease term longer than thirteen months, with or without our knowledge? We remember the apartment representative told us the longest term they can offer is thirteen months. Is there any law or regulation to specify the lease term?
And with all the differences on the application and the lease contract, can we ask the management to obey what they promised on the application, and change the differences on the lease contract?