(03-29-2024, 04:43 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(03-27-2024, 12:17 PM)mikesez Wrote: I just told you.
The landlord demanded payments before I could break my lease early. He demanded all 5 months remaining on the lease be paid on or before my move out day.  I told him you can keep the security deposit but other than that I ain't paying.  Eviction is never instant and they can't garnish your wages. 

If you have another place lined up already, you shouldn't give the landlord any more than what you remember agreeing to, what you think is right.  And even if you don't have a new place lined up, the law gives you a set number of days to figure that out before the landlord can evict you.

What did you do to piss them off? A landlord isn't going to evict a tenant who still has time on a lease. And you damn sure can't pay "what you remember agreeing to, what you think is right." A lease states what you're going to pay, you don't have to remember anything. If your experience was anything else there was some shady stuff going on.

All I did was tell them I was moving even though 5 months remained on the 1 year lease.  They said regardless of how well you clean the place out, if you hand the keys back to us, we charge you for all remaining rent instantly.  I referred them back to my lease contract which said the penalty was only 1 month's rent and a forfeit of the security deposit.  They said sorry but corporate changed the policy.  I said that's not how contracts work.  I said if you send me a bill for 1 month I will pay it. And I'll forfeit my security deposit.  I moved out.  Next day they e-mail the bill for 5 months just like they said they would.  I tell them I normally wouldn't do this, but I'll go ahead and pay you for one month, even though your bill is erroneous.  They take that money. They send a bill again for 4 months.  I ignore it. That bill goes to collections.  I show the collections agent my contract and they never contact me again.  Easy peasy.

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