I rented a home for 1 year and 2 months. I paid upfront the 1st and last months rent + $1000 or $2000 ....i don't even remeber....the problem my ex-husband had just died....i had come into some money because of....and i was still in shock and suffering from a very severe depression.....i had misplaced the original lease....i left entering a treatment center......he had had me evicted because i didn't pay that last months rent....at the time, i was too messed up on drugs to take care of this....but i know he took advantage of me...i went to the housing crisis center for the landlord tenant workshop. They said by law i had 2 years to notify him of my address and request my deposit back. I sent him a certified letter (the form that gave me). The letter came back to me, with him never accepting it, which tells me he knows he did wrong...otherwise why didn't he accept it. He has several (at least 8, probably more) rent houses in the area of mine (he lived on 2 blocks from me).
2007-01-09 05:51:43 · 4 answers · asked by MaryBeth 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
Small claims court would work fine. There is typically a filing fee. Make sure you have ALL supporting documents, ie lease agreement, cancelled checks, his eviction notice, etc. The only problem with winning a settlement, is actually still collecting the money.
2007-01-09 05:57:49 · answer #1 · answered by MJ 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I was too messed up on drugs to take care of this...but I know he took advantage of me" Take a look in the mirror. The landlord is not responsible for your personal choices. He is not your babysitter. Move on with life and try to not make the same mistakes again.
2007-01-09 08:24:41 · answer #2 · answered by Scott S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
definite, you may deliver your chum to court if that's what you want. you're saying you have documentation and determine you do. prepare the employ settlement the place she agreed to pay a million/2 the employ and in case you have a written settlement that she aggreed to pay a million/2 all different charges you will desire this as properly. in case you do not have this, then you definately could want to coach a trend of fee. information she become paying a million/2 of all charges previous to her departure. verify you have copies of all charges and all receipts and cancelled exams. interior the destiny you ought to have a receipt e book in case you have a roommate and could write receipts for any money they make to you for employ and for different charges. protecting a written path is best to any court case. Secondly, i could think of you have a touch good case against the owner. If the the two certainly one of you have been on the employ i do no longer see how the owner ought to enable certainly one of you off the employ without the others written permission. the owner ought to have checked with you to make beneficial this would not be an undue financial burden on you. i could touch your State's criminal expert accepted's place of work and ask what you're able to do approximately this quandary. As for the deposit it quite is not suggested why you lost it. If it become lost considering which you ought to now no longer pay the employ and become taken via diminish back employ due, then i could circulate after the owner. i could argue which you will now no longer arise with the money for the rented aspects as quickly as the owner broke the employ between you and your roommate. If the deposit become lost via fact of harm and the wear become led to by applying your roommate and not your self, then you definately could ought to circulate after your chum and then could ought to coach the wear become her fault.
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2007-01-09 07:25:37 · answer #4 · answered by citronge69 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋