PippiPalermo
Junior Member
I rented this apartment in CA 5 years ago and had a 6 month lease, then month-to-month thereafter. Last year, I decided to move out of state and I notified the LL that my boyfriend was planning to keep the apartment. I also said that I was not going to be financially responsible for the place anymore, and that my bf would need to get a new lease in his name. The LL agreed, and a new lease was put into effect in Feb 2014. I come back to visit fairly often, and sometimes stay for a while, but I am essentially a guest, and definitely not on the lease. If there was a maintenance issue, the on-site manager would not even take the complaint from me, because I am not on the lease.
Skip ahead to March of this year. The building is now �professionally managed�, and the new people sent a notice to ME informing me of the change, and where/how to pay rent. They did not send one to my boyfriend. No biggie at the time, but then they served us with a 60 termination of tenancy for overdue maintenance and major plumbing issues, stating that it would just be �easier for everyone if we moved out�. Whatever, nothing I can do about it. I am looking for a new place.
When we moved in, I paid more than the required move-in fees. I essentially paid first and last month�s rent, the partial month we were in then, an additional month, and the $500 security deposit. Our 60 days is up on May 17th, so I assumed that the �last month�s rent� I paid upon move in would apply. My deposits carried over to my bf�s lease with my blessing and the LL�s.) Apparently I was wrong. When informed of my error, I said I would happily pay the April rent, but could not do so now until my next payday on May 1. The mgmt. rep threw a fit. Hinted that I was a scam artist, etc. �What happened to the money, why can�t you pay it, what did you spend your rent money on?� Well, application fees to the countless places I am looking at, obviously. Anyway� this weekend I was served eviction papers.
I was served eviction paperwork. Not my boyfriend�the ONLY person on the current lease. He is not even mentioned by name. I assume he is �all other occupants�. While reading the papers, I noticed several other shady discrepancies that concern me. Like previous judgements on the same case # that I was unaware of. Hearings that have taken place of which I was not notified. And the fact that the first date listed of when they began this process is November of last year�I am pretty sure they didn�t know that I or my bf would not pay April�s rent back then. I don�t know what they are up to. The management company didn�t enter the picture until February. We have had no issues the entire time we have lived here, either individually or as a couple. The place is clean, we don�t make a lot of noise, we pay our rent, or did anyway, we get along with the neighbors, and we thought we were in good standing with the LL. This doesn�t sit well with me at all.
I am thinking this sounds like a motion to quash situation. At worst, I would like to annoy the hell out of these people and make them start over. At best, I would like to buy myself enough time to actually find a decent place to live AND annoy the hell out of them so they have to start over and possibly have nervous breakdowns.
Help me Obi-Wans of Legal land, you�re my only hope.
Skip ahead to March of this year. The building is now �professionally managed�, and the new people sent a notice to ME informing me of the change, and where/how to pay rent. They did not send one to my boyfriend. No biggie at the time, but then they served us with a 60 termination of tenancy for overdue maintenance and major plumbing issues, stating that it would just be �easier for everyone if we moved out�. Whatever, nothing I can do about it. I am looking for a new place.
When we moved in, I paid more than the required move-in fees. I essentially paid first and last month�s rent, the partial month we were in then, an additional month, and the $500 security deposit. Our 60 days is up on May 17th, so I assumed that the �last month�s rent� I paid upon move in would apply. My deposits carried over to my bf�s lease with my blessing and the LL�s.) Apparently I was wrong. When informed of my error, I said I would happily pay the April rent, but could not do so now until my next payday on May 1. The mgmt. rep threw a fit. Hinted that I was a scam artist, etc. �What happened to the money, why can�t you pay it, what did you spend your rent money on?� Well, application fees to the countless places I am looking at, obviously. Anyway� this weekend I was served eviction papers.
I was served eviction paperwork. Not my boyfriend�the ONLY person on the current lease. He is not even mentioned by name. I assume he is �all other occupants�. While reading the papers, I noticed several other shady discrepancies that concern me. Like previous judgements on the same case # that I was unaware of. Hearings that have taken place of which I was not notified. And the fact that the first date listed of when they began this process is November of last year�I am pretty sure they didn�t know that I or my bf would not pay April�s rent back then. I don�t know what they are up to. The management company didn�t enter the picture until February. We have had no issues the entire time we have lived here, either individually or as a couple. The place is clean, we don�t make a lot of noise, we pay our rent, or did anyway, we get along with the neighbors, and we thought we were in good standing with the LL. This doesn�t sit well with me at all.
I am thinking this sounds like a motion to quash situation. At worst, I would like to annoy the hell out of these people and make them start over. At best, I would like to buy myself enough time to actually find a decent place to live AND annoy the hell out of them so they have to start over and possibly have nervous breakdowns.
Help me Obi-Wans of Legal land, you�re my only hope.