We just recently (yesterday) signed a lease on an apartment!!! BUT, we feel like we were rushed into things, and when we finally got a chance to REALLY look at the place, we got renter's remorse from all of the hidden problems!!! We are REALLY wanting to know just WHAT the law in Arkansas is about this sort of thing!!! We need an answer QUICK, so if anyone can help us, please do so!!! Any help would be much appreciated!!! Thank you!!!

Shawn and Tricia :confused:

Not sure there is a law for this point in time; talk to the landlord and say you have changed your mind and review lease termination clause in the lease. I think if you ask for the landlord to sign a mutual release and let the landlord keep the deposit, that the landlord will let you out of the lease. You can also consult a local attorney to review the lease for loopholes. Don't sign under pressure.

We just recently (yesterday) signed a lease on an apartment!!! BUT, we feel like we were rushed into things, and when we finally got a chance to REALLY look at the place, we got renter's remorse from all of the hidden problems!!! We are REALLY wanting to know just WHAT the law in Arkansas is about this sort of thing!!! We need an answer QUICK, so if anyone can help us, please do so!!! Any help would be much appreciated!!! Thank you!!!

Shawn and Tricia :confused:

Well, Are the problems within the apt things that can be fixed, or are the problems health hazards? (You don't state)

If it is health or safety hazards, you should send a certified letter to landlord(to make sure they try not to use the excuse that you never alerted them of any problems).
Or you can contact your local housing authority office(may be called something else in your state) and they will come over and investigate and serve landlord with a notice to comply and if landlord doesn't comply you can easily get out of lease and the landlord can be fined.
So the matter is complex, depending on the problems with apt unit,(which you never stated) so read your lease and any special clause's and go from there.

Also go online to aptratings.com and check for any complaint's for your apartment complex so you can know what you are dealing with, and if you do move out check aptratings.com for ANY and ALL apartments you choose to move to in the future, because i have found the website VERY Useful, and no one knows about a place better than people who have lived there or is currently living there, so you will see compliments and some complaints...but at least it can help you make a decision on whether or not this could be a place you would like to live in, or if the staff/landlord are good people and address tenant issues in a timely manner.

Most places will try to get you into signing a lease and then give you a key afterwards, which is a bad deal...so in the future don't sign a lease or at least finalize it, until they have given you permission to view your new apt.
Because what the model looks like that they show you, can be VERY different from your actual unit they lease out to you. (I have noticed that a lot of apt complexes are not willing to show you the apt you are leasing until after you sign a lease...RED FLAG...if they can't show you, then usually they have something to hide, or they know you will change your mind, i asked and was given the excuse, the apt was not ready yet, the floors are wet.)
I unfortunatly fell for the same trick years ago, and the model was beautiful, i was told there would be new carpet in the unit, and when we signed the lease, they didn't have keys until that saturday...we picked up keys went to apt and was in shock of how the inside looked...no new carpet,(stains everywhere) they shampooed it, and there was dead cockroaches in the kitchen and the floors and walls where paper thin and the upstairs floor had a big dip in the middle of the floor like it was going to cave in, and the entire apt had all old appliances and cabinets and torn worn out tile throughout the bathrooms, but in the model everything was new and updated. They even had mice running around in the walls and i would hear them scratching and walking around, and finally one ate a hole through my closet wall and got in my unit and landlord just said she would give me some sticky paper, so when my lease was up, i wasted no time getting the hell out of there.
So i am sorry you had to experience a problem....but i wish you the best of luck and if you can go to the website aptratings.com and post a comment to warn other future renters about that apartment complex and your issues with landlord. Because if more people can get together and voice comments..it usually forces the landlord to make changes to improve their property or they have to take a loss or cut in pay because they can't find any renter's willing to stay or rent too, and surely they are in it to make money...not to lose money. Make them step up to the plate!