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By Christine

My husband and I recently moved into a condo. We moved in on July 11th 2008 and we got a refrigerator that worked on August 8, 2008. We came to an agreement with the landlord/prop management on compensation to us for the inconvience. We could of asked for more but we were trying to be good & understanding tenants. We sent in our rent check and found out that my husbands bank account had fraudulant activity (someone took everything we had). We thought that the bank had paid the check and charged us a fee but we got a call on the 10th saying that the check came back as NSF. We told them the story and they said to send the amount back w/ a NSF charge. We were ok with that. But then we get a letter on Aug 21 with both checks in it saying that we had to send in a money order. ALso enclosed was a seperate letter claiming that we owe more that what the first letter (enclosed in the same envelope) stated. As to make it even worse, we recieved at letter today (Aug 23) saying that now we owe even more money & if we don’t within three days they will take possession of the premises. FIrst, none of these letters were sent certified mail or were they summons. Second, they have failed to repair a crack in my front window (which was agreed upon when we moved in for them to repair). Thirdly, I have had a clogged kitchen sink since around the 10th of this month. They have yet to send someone out to fix it. Can they evict us in three days? What can we do??

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Edited on: Saturday, September 11th, 2010 6:44 pm
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2 Responses to “Apartment condo”

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Mr. Landlord

August 25th, 2008 11:41 am

First of all, I’m sorry about the Identity theft. That can really make things not fun. However, after looking at it from a Landlords point of view; I can understand why management is responding like that. Although, it obviously wasn’t your fault that your rent check bounced– you are the one that should be bending over backwards to see that the landlord gets their rent money. If I understand correctly, its now the 23 of August and you still haven’t been able to pay for this months rent… I would suggest that you personally deliver the rent today with nothing less than a money order. I would alos suggest you apologize to the manager for the problem with this months rent, and explain that it won’t happen again. As for the repair items you listed– those items have little to do with the eviction problem. The legal agreement is that rent would be paid by a certain date, if that hasn’t been done, regardless of the reason– you would be the one that breached the agreement. You have proven that your personal checks are not good, so now you should do whatever it takes to pay with certified funds.

Rachel

August 27th, 2008 12:46 pm

To answer the question simply, yes your landlord can do that. Some sound legal advice would be to pay your landlord immediately, once it goes to court it will be really expensive.

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