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Feb. 13th, 2004 02:19 pmThe people I lived with in 2000/2001 got a phone call for me from someone named Bernard, saying he had to talk to me, and it was very important.
He's apparently a lawyer for the apartment complex I lived at in Davis. They claim I owe them $800 something for ending the lease early/cleaning expenses/etc. They'll settle for $650 if we can pay it by the end of February, or we can pay $100 per month and take a credit hit.
This is the first we've heard about this. We moved out at the end of May.
California rental law requires them to notify us of these expenses within 21 days of leaving. They claim they sent mail to our old address, which we had forwarded to Virginia. We never received it. Perhaps they never sent it, perhaps there was a mixup in the mail system.
I question whether this would be considered proper notification.
I'm pretty certain I gave them a real forwarding address, either the PO Box or Christof's work address. Even if I didn't, they had our new phone number, as they called it on multiple occasions about other issues.
Whatever the case, I'm pissed off, and hope something gets worked out. I have no problem with paying what we owe, but it's going to be difficult to manage on this short notice. I'll be especially pissed if AOL won't cover the early termination fee because of the delay.
Hopefully this is just all lawyer fast talk, and if we call them on it, they'll back down. Bernard-jerk certainly wasn't giving me much chance to get a word in edgewise, for all his talk of wanting to sort things out.
The random expenses really need to stop.
Oh well. At least I can stop losing sleep wondering what the phone calls were about (I've known he was calling since Wednesday, but was only able to call today due to phone number mixups and time zone differences).
He's apparently a lawyer for the apartment complex I lived at in Davis. They claim I owe them $800 something for ending the lease early/cleaning expenses/etc. They'll settle for $650 if we can pay it by the end of February, or we can pay $100 per month and take a credit hit.
This is the first we've heard about this. We moved out at the end of May.
California rental law requires them to notify us of these expenses within 21 days of leaving. They claim they sent mail to our old address, which we had forwarded to Virginia. We never received it. Perhaps they never sent it, perhaps there was a mixup in the mail system.
I question whether this would be considered proper notification.
I'm pretty certain I gave them a real forwarding address, either the PO Box or Christof's work address. Even if I didn't, they had our new phone number, as they called it on multiple occasions about other issues.
Whatever the case, I'm pissed off, and hope something gets worked out. I have no problem with paying what we owe, but it's going to be difficult to manage on this short notice. I'll be especially pissed if AOL won't cover the early termination fee because of the delay.
Hopefully this is just all lawyer fast talk, and if we call them on it, they'll back down. Bernard-jerk certainly wasn't giving me much chance to get a word in edgewise, for all his talk of wanting to sort things out.
The random expenses really need to stop.
Oh well. At least I can stop losing sleep wondering what the phone calls were about (I've known he was calling since Wednesday, but was only able to call today due to phone number mixups and time zone differences).
