danomosity asked: VERY long stories shortened as much as possible:
There was a plumbing issue ($261, and not our fault) that our contract said we pay $50 for. We did. Our landlord came a week later with our “contract” that said that they don’t have to pay for it and that we owe them the difference. (he thought we lost ours). We found out later that it was fake and that he FORGED our signatures on the contract! We didn’t get a copy of it unfortunately, but we did ask him for another copy saying he took that one (we wrote down exactly what happened and dated it and all that stuff). 3 weeks later we found in our mailbox a photocopy of the original contract….
(this is where it gets good!)
Stapled on the back of this was the ORIGINAL contract (this must have been a mistake)… On the 2nd page of it is HIS HAND WRITING trying to duplicate the way we wrote our names!
Do we have enough to turn him in for this and how do we go about that? We already found a new place that is a better deal (less money) so we will be able to afford it easily. We had to put $800 on this place and now he is claiming that if we leave (we gave him notice that we were leaving because of this) and he is saying that if we do that we forfeit our deposit AND have to pay the remaining 8 months in our “contract”.
SIDE ISSUE (Maybe a main one?):
When they sent us the original contract to sign it had NO set renting time on it. It simply had our move in date.
They DID add these later though, without telling us. (we had talked about a 6 or 12 month lease but never confirmed either). Do you think we are locked into it or is it just month to month since they didn’t have a date on it?
Should we get an attorney?
Wait and take him to small claims court?
Or are we screwed and need to just eat the cost?
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