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rosebuddnc
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What is the name of your state? North Carolina
I was renting an apartment for four years on a month by month basis.
In mid November I told my landlord I was buying a home, told her that I would be moving the weekend of December 5, 2003 and gave her a paper to fill out to take back to my mortgage lender.
I did in fact move on December 7. My landlord was at her Mothers house (which was across the street from my former apartment) and my landlord saw me and my family moving my belongings into a moving van on that day.
I went back to clean the next day. I had the flu and was running a temperature, and since I had told her I was moving, I left the key to the house on the stove in the apartment. I had very little interaction with my landlord and had paid the rent to her Mother across the street. The Mother had gone to church and I foolishly assumed that they would come into the apartment the next day and look at the apartment.
I was in bed for the next week and frankly did not think anything further about the apartment. I had no reason to think that my landlord would not think I moved out. She worked in the water department in the city I was renting in and I had also put in an order to turn the lights and water off on December 8th, so she had access to the fact that my water was no longer on.
She has since contacted my family demanding in very nasty terms that I turn in the keys. She also had the police go to my son's home ( a place I have not lived at for at least 4 years). I have no idea how she connected my ex husband and son with me, much less get their number and harrass them. I believe that since she works for the city, she went to the tax record department and got my ex husbands name and address.
I believe that she is now trying to sue me for back rent. Although I probably should have exercised better judgment in leaving the key....she KNEW I was moving and when I was moving.
Any advice? I do not feel I owe my landlord any money. I was always on time for my rent and if she went to the house to collect, she had to have noticed that the lights were out, and her parents lived across the street so they would have noticed that I was no longer there.
What can I do? I am not paying her any money. She knew I was moving....I told her in plain English and she saw me moving out!
Thanks
Rose
I was renting an apartment for four years on a month by month basis.
In mid November I told my landlord I was buying a home, told her that I would be moving the weekend of December 5, 2003 and gave her a paper to fill out to take back to my mortgage lender.
I did in fact move on December 7. My landlord was at her Mothers house (which was across the street from my former apartment) and my landlord saw me and my family moving my belongings into a moving van on that day.
I went back to clean the next day. I had the flu and was running a temperature, and since I had told her I was moving, I left the key to the house on the stove in the apartment. I had very little interaction with my landlord and had paid the rent to her Mother across the street. The Mother had gone to church and I foolishly assumed that they would come into the apartment the next day and look at the apartment.
I was in bed for the next week and frankly did not think anything further about the apartment. I had no reason to think that my landlord would not think I moved out. She worked in the water department in the city I was renting in and I had also put in an order to turn the lights and water off on December 8th, so she had access to the fact that my water was no longer on.
She has since contacted my family demanding in very nasty terms that I turn in the keys. She also had the police go to my son's home ( a place I have not lived at for at least 4 years). I have no idea how she connected my ex husband and son with me, much less get their number and harrass them. I believe that since she works for the city, she went to the tax record department and got my ex husbands name and address.
I believe that she is now trying to sue me for back rent. Although I probably should have exercised better judgment in leaving the key....she KNEW I was moving and when I was moving.
Any advice? I do not feel I owe my landlord any money. I was always on time for my rent and if she went to the house to collect, she had to have noticed that the lights were out, and her parents lived across the street so they would have noticed that I was no longer there.
What can I do? I am not paying her any money. She knew I was moving....I told her in plain English and she saw me moving out!
Thanks
Rose