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Evike75
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. I am a tenant at Bishop Park Apartments in Willoughby, Ohio. I moved into the apartment in October 2000 with a 1-year lease. Since that time, rent payments were consistantly late; however, accepted. When we tried to pay the May rent, the landlord would not accept it. He took us to court for the eviction and we won the eviction since late rent has been consistantly accepted. Six days after the decision, we received another 3-day notice. We again attempted to pay both the May and June rent, which was again refused. We were taken to court; however, there is no written law stating the "reasonable amount of time". Therefore, they won the eviction on a technicality. We filed an appeal and paid a bond of $1010 to file the appeal. Our attorney didn't consult us and set the time at 9:00am on August 1st. The decision was filed at 4:30pm on July 31. Of course, we do not carry $1010 cash and tried to contact the courts to inform them that we would be approximately 15 minutes later than 9am because the bank opens at 9am. The amount was stamped as paid on 9:16am. We then had to pay our August rent to the court by 4:30 on August 6. Again, this was paid and accepted. Yesterday, August 13, we received a 3-day eviction from the court stating that the baliff will move our belongs out on Friday, August 17. Not only do we have to move, but they kept the entire $1515 that we paid. I feel we should at least receive the rent back that we paid for August, even if it is prorated, since we are not staying the entire month.