flyingcyclist
Junior Member
Mississippi.
I used to drive a taxi and paid my lease weekly to the owner. It was a verbal agreement with no other fees other than the lease payment. (lease was $350 weekly, payable on monday, no other fees) I paid according to the agreed upon schedule for about 6 of 9 months, then a few times I fell a little behind, but always got caught up. The owner started getting "flaky" on me and began to forget payments were being made, so I started getting him to sign a receipt book. (Didn't have them or felt the need for this until this point)
He initialed each one and up until I returned the car, I was never more than $100 behind, and again, no other fees agreed to. I got sick two weeks before the car finally got turned in. I tried to turn car in when i got sick but the owner said to keep it, not to worry about the lease, when I got better he would expect to see me back.
I insisted that i wanted to give car back (I really wanted out of the business) but he wouldn't hear of it. I finally convinced him to come get it nearly 2 weeks after I first asked. It sat at my house the entire time.
I paid him for the monday of the beginning of the week I originally tried to give it back.
He now states I owe him over $1400. for the car, he is including fees that I never had to pay before and other than the reciepts I strted half way through my "employment", I (nor he) has any real proof. He has created a ledger claiming what I owe him, but nothing signed by me.
HELP!!
I used to drive a taxi and paid my lease weekly to the owner. It was a verbal agreement with no other fees other than the lease payment. (lease was $350 weekly, payable on monday, no other fees) I paid according to the agreed upon schedule for about 6 of 9 months, then a few times I fell a little behind, but always got caught up. The owner started getting "flaky" on me and began to forget payments were being made, so I started getting him to sign a receipt book. (Didn't have them or felt the need for this until this point)
He initialed each one and up until I returned the car, I was never more than $100 behind, and again, no other fees agreed to. I got sick two weeks before the car finally got turned in. I tried to turn car in when i got sick but the owner said to keep it, not to worry about the lease, when I got better he would expect to see me back.
I insisted that i wanted to give car back (I really wanted out of the business) but he wouldn't hear of it. I finally convinced him to come get it nearly 2 weeks after I first asked. It sat at my house the entire time.
I paid him for the monday of the beginning of the week I originally tried to give it back.
He now states I owe him over $1400. for the car, he is including fees that I never had to pay before and other than the reciepts I strted half way through my "employment", I (nor he) has any real proof. He has created a ledger claiming what I owe him, but nothing signed by me.
HELP!!