How do I still owe an apartment complex money after I was asked to move out?
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I moved into an apartment over a year ago. I just received a letter from a debt collection agency that I owe the apartment complex $2,417.51. I was asked to move and they kept my security deposit and pet deposit. I lived in the apartment a month and a half because the manager lived directly below me and constantly harassed me and my roommate. She locked my roommate out of the apartment with my cat still inside. I have several other incidents as well. How do I owe this much money and do I even have to pay it?
Landlord / Tenant Law Answers
The reason why you supposedly owe the $2,417.51 amount stated in the letter by the collection agency to your landlord is due to the fact that you were evicted by your landlord with time left under your presumed written lease. From what you have written, it seems that the landlord had you evicted from the premises you were renting for cause where it is the landlord's position that you breached your lease with him or her.
Since you allegedly breached your written lease with the landlord with time remaining on the lease, the landlord's position is that you owe for time remaining on the lease.
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