I was court ordered on Aug 19th, that I had to move by Aug 31rst. At that time the security deposit would be applied to my balance as applicable, and I would contact the landlords attorney to make payments on anything else that was owed if so. Since last week the 24th, the locks on my apartment were changed without any notice. I have been back and forth with the landlords attorney. They are aware that it is illegal for my landlord to change locks since I have court paperwork. I called my landlord and basically was just rude, wouldn’t discuss about the lock, and hung up on me. On Friday, I was told that I would get a call about a new key. I never recvd a call. I called again on the weekend but could only leave messages. Today Aug 30th, I got a hold of the landlord finally and found out that he already removed all of my items from the apartment! I got extemely emotional because a lot of my daugthers personal memorable items were there, and now its all gone. I plan to go to court and file against him. Is there anything I would need? I do have pictures of items, but not everything. I also don’t have receipts because most stuff was purchased on craigslist, or gifts, and any receipts i do have were there at the apartment. Please help! Any advice is appreciated!

Hi, Here’s my story. I live in Northern NY. I own my own home, and have been living with my boyfriend for a 1 1/2 year now. I have been asking him to move out pretty regularly for the last 6 months and I have about reached my wits end. Whenever I ask him to leave he tells me that it’s just as much his house as mine and that if he leaves he will take all my stuff with him, and there is nothing I can do about it but take him to court and by then he will have everything!! (I just recently bought all new furniture and a new plasma tv). He has a very bad temper, and throws fits when I ask him to leave. I called the police once and they told me Id have to evict him. I went to city court to get eviction forms but they said they didnt supply them. Mind you he has been unemployment for 5 months and barely give me any money to help with bill’s. Sit’s around all day doing nothing!!! What a prize I got!!! I would appreciate any help you can give me! I dont want him to take all my stuff!!! Thanks!
The house is mine, I bought it way before I met him, my name is on everything. I have reciepts for all my furniture and belongings, which I will get together tonight and put in my safe deposit box. Thanks, Everyone!!!

I have a roommate who is also the landlord that after almost 9 months of living here with her, has asked me to move out on grounds on non-payment. This is of-course what she is stating, not me. When we first moved in here, the “Verbal” agreement between her (Landlord) and me, was that we were to pay $150 weekly ($600 Month) and we moved in on a Monday. I should note that I am married and my wife lives here with me also. At the time of us moving in here, I was working at a thrift store about 30 mins away, and making minimum rage. Since I was living paycheck to paycheck and couldn’t afford the car payments anymore I had 2 options. Keep the car, or give the car back to the finance company and have a roof over our head. I choose roof over my head. The problem was, now I have no way to get to work. So I lost my job. I started looking for jobs within walking distance with no success. I lost my job back in early September of last year, so I have been unemployed since. The way we have been paying our rent mostly was with my wife’s Pell Grant checks that she receives every quarter for attending full-time college. We also always found other ways to get our rent payed, either from borrowing money from family or me doing odd ball one-time jobs. One odd ball way for example, was when I sold my mother-in-laws car for $1700 and used most of it to pay rent in advance. Like an entire months, which was optional, because our lease agreement was to pay on a weekly bases. we really didn’t start to get behind until here of recent. Beginning of February to be exact. So for all those other months, it wasn’t a problem. And even though we have been late, it wasn’t for the full amount. We would give her partial amounts, like $110, of the $150, and then get the rest to her not even a week later. So its not like its ever been over a week late. My landlord also starting a couple of weeks ago, has made mention that she would now like to be payed bi-weekly instead of the agreement we had of weekly. Because of this new rule, she is now stating that we are behind in rent cause she has not received the next 2 weeks rent. I told her that our original agreement was for weekly. And that we both agreed on that. I also told her that I never agreed to the new bi-weekly payments. we never even talked or discussed it with each other at all. Another thing to mention, is that for the past couple of months, she has been wanting to get payed rent for the next week on a Sunday or Saturday, instead of the due date. That is Monday, thats she day we moved in and payed the first payment. I have told her numerous times that she is to get payed on the die date, Monday. Her excuse for wanting the rent 1-2 days early is “I need gas money for the next week”. To keep the peace, I really didn’t ague with it, but I have mentioned numerous times that she is to be payed on the due date and not early. I even gave her a week of rent early back during the week of Thanksgiving, cause she had her boyfriend visiting for a couple of weeks and they went down to Florida to vacation. She asked me if I minded to get the next weeks rent early so they would have money for that. Of course, to keep the peace I rent ahead and gave it to her. So its not like we have been bad, non-paying tenets. So since she is claiming we are past due, not even a couple of days, according to her. She has stated that she is going to start the eviction process. My argument is that I say we are payed till this Thursday. Cause we just gave her $150 last Saturday and another $150 on Wendsday. So $300 total in one week. But like I said, she is going by the new, ‘Non Agreed” lease that she sprung up. So, going by the original agreement we had, we are payed till Thursday, and not late yet. She has started to disconnect the cable and internet, which is included in the weekly rent we pay. I have not yet confronted her about this cause I fear it will just spark a fire, so I have taken pictures and documented it. One of the problems is that neither one of us have all the payment receipts. She was basically using a calender to keep up with the payments and that all. There have been multiple times that I have insisted on getting a signed receipt after I hand the rent over, but she never complied. So I do have receipts, just not all. I do have a record of the last 2 payments we gave to her. So I have no problem proving to her and a court that she has received payment for rent till this Wendsday. Her argument is otherwise. The thing that pisses me off is that she has turned off the cable and internet, which like I said, its apart of the rent we pay here. So since, according to me, has turned off those services, shouldn’t the rent be reduced say $100 for not being provided for services payed? If so, when we go to court I will argue it. There is ALOT of other stuff that needs to be mentioned, but I don’t have enough room here for it.

The town notified her in 2008 not to rent the apartments by letter,courts, and her attorney.

So on Jan 21st I gave my tenants a 3 day notice to vacate or pay. They finally vacated on February 6th, they told me they would pay rent, however they took off leaving trash in the house, and only leaving me 1 key instead of 2, and no forwarding address like the said. So now I am forced to take them to court, even though they stated if I took them to court they would just file bankruptcy so no one got a dime.
Does anyone know the procedure? Or where I can download the forms?
Thanks
the court said something about filing a Notice of Default.

I received the papers 2 weeks ago that our bank is foreclosing on our home. I have not received any additional information, but we are not fighting the foreclosure. The truth is we can not afford our home due to my husband’s job loss. How long do we have before we are evicted, and what is the notification process for this eviction? Can they just show up unannounced and throw us out? I am clueless. Thank you.

I moved out of my apartment May 24th and still have not recieved my security deposit. My lease says the landlord shall return the security deposit in “reasonable time.” As I understand it, her husband is an attorney therefore the lease is very secure. Anyway, I (and my roomates) have contacted her several times already. She responded the first time stating that the checks would be mailed the week of June 11th. She lives in Texas so I gave it more than enough time to arrive (over a week) and it still hadn’t come. I then emailed her again and she said that she had just recieved our last water bill and she would send the checks along with copies of the water bill after processing that. (For our last water bill, which gets sent to her, she deducts the amount of the bill from our sec. deposit which was agreed upon at a previous time). Anyway, that was almost three weeks ago. It seems that she keeps making excuses, is there anything I can do because contacting her is not working.
I forgot to mention I am a college student living in a college town in new york. My landlord lives in texas and we have had nothing but problems with her since we moved in.
I just emailed her again and she apologized for the delay stating she has been out of town. she said she will mail the check tomorrow. 🙂 hopefully she’s sincere this time.

I have a new tenant that just moved in and has been there for two weeks only. She has no furniture and has a puppy in there that was not on the contract and a guest (boyfriend) that is keeping his vehicle in the garage and the place is dirty and dishes every where & she has two little boys that are sleeping on the floor. She has destroyed my garage door and I had to put a new one on for $350. She does not have anything on the move In Inventory form that there was anything wrong with it and it was all tore up at the bottom. The only thing I can figure is that is got caught on the boyfriends vehicle because the whole bottom was torn off. She said it was rotted. I went to make a repair on a small hole behind the door and that I when I saw the condition of the place & the unauthorized pet in there & the boyfriend sleeping there. I went home to get my camera and came back and took pictures. She has also left the two & seven year old boy by their selves because it was called to my attention by two repair men that were replacing the garage door & fixing the A/C heater. She filed a Police report on me for harassment. I posted an Eviction Notice on her door and now she is sending me E-Mails requesting her money back and she will leave. Should I go ahead with the formal Eviction? I am in Austin, Texas.
She paid $775 for the two weeks rent and a partial security deposit of $388. Real Estate agent got 80% of the first months rent. The rest was suppose to be paid by March 1, 2010. A total of $2325. First & last months rent and the deposit had to equal the rent.

After Filing for bankruptcy our attorney assured us that our money situation would be taken care of. A little while after, our landlord told us that the utility company is sending her to collections for our debt, of course she is a little angry about the situation and told us that she is going to get a lawyer for herself. We have already tried to call our attorney but he is out of the office. Of course we will try again later, but I was just curious if anyone has had this problem, and can they really go after someone else for our debt?

I have a rental property that is on a month to month lease. On 9/25 I gave him a 30 day termination to be out by 10/31/10. I went to a notary and also did the proof of Affidavit of Service. They now of course are not paying Octobers rent.
I realize this is now all going to be a process. The question is, since they are currently in violation of the lease agreement that states that they may not use the security deposit in form of payment of last months rent, should I draft up a 5 day Quit form and give it to them that shows all monies owed including late fees?
In Illinois, would it speed the process up faster, because after that 5th day I could file in the court house for eviction? And at least get the process moving in that direction?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.