This is just another one of those hassles the modern law student has no time for.
The one-year lease on my apartment finished on August 31st. With the new lease, I got new roommates, both of whom had to undergo credit checks in order to be put on the lease. Both submitted their information and were told that they passed the check (I guess they don't count debt you're in the process of incurring) but no lease has yet been made available.
Three calls a day for four weekdays has yielded no reply from my building manager. I call in the morning, around noon and again in the afternoon. Every time, his secretary pretends not to have heard of me and then pretends to take a message. If this goes on any longer, I'm going to have to call a lawyer. Since when do building managers duck from their tenants when the tenants want to give them money?
UPDATE: I had to go to their corporate headquarters, but I got it.
Doesn't that make you a squatter? If you stay long enough without a lease, can't you just claim adverse possession and keep the apartment as your own?