Didn't re-sign lease, now we're screwed...

[iansriley]

We had a lease in an apartment in Denver, CO from Jan 1999 to Jan 2000. We stayed in the apartment with no lease until August 2000. In July we had numerous problems (roaches, stolen mail, stolen property) and decided to move out. We went to talk to the landlord and told him we were leaving, we said we were giving him a 10 day notice and a check for 10 days rent (we were told that was correct for CO without a lease, is this correct?). He was mad and refused to talk to us ro take our check and said he would take the money out of our security deposit. 2 months later we received a bill for the full rent ($550) plus late fees ($150) plus cleaning fees ($75). He took out $400 from our security deposit and says we owe him the rest. Can anyone tell me if we are screwed and have to pay the full amounts, or is there some recourse? Please help...

P.S. The lease says nothing about giving notice whatsoever. Also the time of the lease expired 6 months before this...

[This message has been edited by iansriley (edited October 02, 2000).]

 

[peter]

Well what did your lease say?

If your lease says a 10 day notice is all you need to give then you dont owe the rent, BUT most require 30 days...so you would owe the EXTRA 20 days rent.

And late fees.. its what ever was in the lease $150 sounds rediculous but read your lease.

But the $75 cleaning fee..forget about it
Not a whole lot you can do there..

So 2/3 of a months rent is $368 + late fee 5% is usually whats in a lease or $27 +75 minus the 400.....wadda that be maybe $70 you owe him....

So where is your lease......figure it out for yourself.