brokendown
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Less than 24 hours after losing my UD in court, my husband spoke with the landlord and had come to a verbal agreement to work out details for us to continue renting the property until Feb 2019 at which point we were going to purchase the property. WE PAID THE ENTIRE JUDGEMENT THAT DAY! We had put a total of $1200 in repairs and paid a $500 deposit for future repairs. The landlord wanted to come do an inspection of the home to verify for himself that repairs had been made to the home to justify a repair and deduct that we had shown receipts for. The Landlord knew that my husband currently had pneumonia, so he said he would set up a time to come the following week. The landlord didn't show up and didn't answer calls or emails for the next 6 weeks. Then out of the blue, we are served with the Writ of Possession.
When the day come for us to be locked out, I waited around my neighborhood to speak with the landlord. I explained to him that we were only able to secure housing for ourselves and the kids less than 12 hours prior and that we were not able to pick up the keys until a couple hours following the lockout. I apologized to him about the mess and that some of our belongings were still there (all the heavy and bulky items). I then requested to come back once I got my keys and emptied my trailer into the new home. I also told him that I would like to go ahead and clear the property of the things that needed to go to the dump, if he would allow me to. He told me that I shouldn't worry about it, sympathized with me trying to move by myself (my husband has a spinal disease and cant lift anything). The landlord then told me not to worry and that he would secure our property in the garage and leave the lock in place so we could still access our property. He also informed me of the law that I have 18 days to retrieve the property before he can dispose of it in anyway. I felt that there was a great deal of mutual respect between us. Later that evening, I drove past the house on my way to pick up my son and saw that he had in fact thrown all of our property outside into a big pile in the front yard and causing a great deal of damage. He threw away my kids clothes, blankets, and pillows as well as smashing brand new boxes of dishes, our 65" curved tv that was still hanging on the wall was shattered into a pile of glass and physically broke the tv into 4 or 5 large pieces.
Is there anything that I can do about this? I have near $15,000 worth of damaged property of what I could see. I looked in the windows and saw that my husbands inversion table is no longer even there as well as our other sofa and our refrigerator. Since there is only one window to the home that I can see into, I am sure that there is a lot more missing.
Less than 24 hours after losing my UD in court, my husband spoke with the landlord and had come to a verbal agreement to work out details for us to continue renting the property until Feb 2019 at which point we were going to purchase the property. WE PAID THE ENTIRE JUDGEMENT THAT DAY! We had put a total of $1200 in repairs and paid a $500 deposit for future repairs. The landlord wanted to come do an inspection of the home to verify for himself that repairs had been made to the home to justify a repair and deduct that we had shown receipts for. The Landlord knew that my husband currently had pneumonia, so he said he would set up a time to come the following week. The landlord didn't show up and didn't answer calls or emails for the next 6 weeks. Then out of the blue, we are served with the Writ of Possession.
When the day come for us to be locked out, I waited around my neighborhood to speak with the landlord. I explained to him that we were only able to secure housing for ourselves and the kids less than 12 hours prior and that we were not able to pick up the keys until a couple hours following the lockout. I apologized to him about the mess and that some of our belongings were still there (all the heavy and bulky items). I then requested to come back once I got my keys and emptied my trailer into the new home. I also told him that I would like to go ahead and clear the property of the things that needed to go to the dump, if he would allow me to. He told me that I shouldn't worry about it, sympathized with me trying to move by myself (my husband has a spinal disease and cant lift anything). The landlord then told me not to worry and that he would secure our property in the garage and leave the lock in place so we could still access our property. He also informed me of the law that I have 18 days to retrieve the property before he can dispose of it in anyway. I felt that there was a great deal of mutual respect between us. Later that evening, I drove past the house on my way to pick up my son and saw that he had in fact thrown all of our property outside into a big pile in the front yard and causing a great deal of damage. He threw away my kids clothes, blankets, and pillows as well as smashing brand new boxes of dishes, our 65" curved tv that was still hanging on the wall was shattered into a pile of glass and physically broke the tv into 4 or 5 large pieces.
Is there anything that I can do about this? I have near $15,000 worth of damaged property of what I could see. I looked in the windows and saw that my husbands inversion table is no longer even there as well as our other sofa and our refrigerator. Since there is only one window to the home that I can see into, I am sure that there is a lot more missing.
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