I made a $53,000.00 deposit in the house which is a Lease Agreement Contract the landlord made which I sign without having an attorney look at. On the agreement he was to deposit the money into a account and collect interest on it which he keeps and his wife told me they paid on the house and now i’m 2 months behind on my rent and they trying to evict and told me that my $53,000.00 is gone and i wont get it back need help????

I was served an unlawful detainer today. The problem is I never received a three notice from my landlord. Here in my paperwork it states that they served me one on March 12th by taping it on the door and mailing. I never received either and I was home. Clearly they are lying and saying they served me when in fact they did not. I’ve been looking this up online and it is illegal to do this and they cannot file eviction forms unless they have formally served me and they have not. I have five days to respond and set a court date to appear in front of the judge and plead my case.

How can I prove they did not serve me. They had served me once back in January and I paid my rent. They did not serve me with a notice in March as they state.
I have five days to respond to this summons. It does not have a court date listed. I assume once I respond to the papers a court date will be set. They have a “copy” attached to my summons saying they served me a THREE DAY NOTICE on March 12th which in fact is NOT TRUE. They never mailed one as they state, and they never posted one on my door, as they state.
My question is can they legally serve me papers w/o ever serving me the three day notice?

I sued our old landlord in small claims and won. He appealed and in turn sued us. In the appeal he hired an attorney and sued us for the attorney fees and an old bill he lied and said we left behind. The judge ruled in the appeal that no one gets anything. Can I sue him again? Because he didn’t return our security deposit in full.

I was given a 30 day notice by my landlord at an apartment complex because they no longer wanted me there, so I left within 30 days an didn’t pay rent. Was I responsible for rent? I recently received a letter from an attorney stating that I was. Please guide me in the right direction.

I work as an apartment manager and have some tenants that cause a huge amount of problems including being raided by the police for drug use, housing criminals, having their pit bulls (that they are not supposed to have) leave waste on other people’s porches, and also throwing that animal waste at other tenants. I really need to get these tenants out!

I am not a lawyer and have never done this before and my employers are too cheap to pay for legal advice, telling me that “a manager should be able to do this as one of their job requirements” even though they knew when they hired me that I’d never done this before.

We are in Washington State. I have read the laws and have the eviction forms. I gave them a 20 day legal notice in person and with a witness and mailed it certified mail January 30th for them to be out by Feb. 28th. Mar 1 landed on Sunday so I filed a Evictions Summons and Evictions Complaint with the Court on the 2nd and paid a law office Process Server to serve them the papers.

However, on the Eviction Summons I only gave the tenants 9 days to respond b/c they are always home, they never work and do not have a car, so even if they are not in their apartment they are very close by and they have other adults living there that are not on the lease but that would be able to sign for the papers.

Legally they have to have at least seven days to respond once receiving the papers and the only reason they haven’t received them is b/c they refuse to sign for them. I do not know why the process server did not leave them at their feet and consider them served. So, now if they sign for them or are served, as I understand it, they can dismiss the case because they do not have a long enough response time.

I realize my mistake now (I think- not entirely sure, I am not a lawyer) in that I needed to allow enough time so that if they refused to sign I could have enough time to get a court order to serve them through alternate means b/c of not being able to serve them the normal way, and for the deadline to still be legally effective.

So, my question is, what do I do now? What legal forms do I need to file? Do I have to start all the way over, can I just refile the summons and complaint and add a later date? If I do that would I use the same case # or a different case #?

Sorry so long to explain! Thank you for your answer!

I just started renting an apartment 3 days ago, and yesterday an attorney came to my door and gave me a notice stating that the house will be foreclosed on Nov 28. The landlord hasnt said anything to me about this. Also, i do know that there is a company wanting to buy the property to build condos there because of the location. So i guess what I am asking is, what are my rights? Should I even unpack?