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Now I admit that we've been technically behind on our rent before, this happens when living paycheck to paycheck as we are now. But we always pay what we owe, and have been doing so on time for the past while. Until now, the management's been good.
On the 15th of the past two months, we've received a Notice to Quit for Non-Payment from the management. It's not an actual eviction, as only a court can decide that and we have been paying the rent and have proof (mysteriously, this seems to go away once we square up). We have a one-year lease (just renewed in March) and there's nothing in the lease that specifies a payment due date other than the obvious before the first of the month and when these letters go out we are NOT in arrears (in this most recent case, we only owed $500 for this month--my understanding is that a constable can't issue them for nonpayment unless the tenant is 90 days behind). It is a bit distressing for both of us though to suddenly get served with this (this stunt is costing THEM money for the process server, so what do they hope to accomplish, and what else might they try?). I technically have a disability, which in this state opens up a new can of worms with regards to evictions (very difficult unless the landlord has solid evidence, and even then it's tricky).
They held onto our lease renewal for almost two months before returning a copy--state law says that the tenant must receive a copy within 30 days after signing.
I'm meeting with my caseworker in a few weeks and plan to bring the notice and explain that this has been going on, we always pay the rent and what can we do to stop it. Mom's planning to contact the attorney general and explain the situation to see if she can't get an official answer. We suspect that the rental agent (who avoids conflict to the point where she won't even address this issue with mom) is just getting instructions from the higher-ups to send these out; this is one of their 'premium' apartments and they probably want us out...even so, without clear evidence of a lease violation I can't imagine it's legal.
If anyone needs to be evicted it's our upstairs neighbors; we've complained about them before and they always seem to know JUST enough about quiet hours to avoid a call to management.
On the 15th of the past two months, we've received a Notice to Quit for Non-Payment from the management. It's not an actual eviction, as only a court can decide that and we have been paying the rent and have proof (mysteriously, this seems to go away once we square up). We have a one-year lease (just renewed in March) and there's nothing in the lease that specifies a payment due date other than the obvious before the first of the month and when these letters go out we are NOT in arrears (in this most recent case, we only owed $500 for this month--my understanding is that a constable can't issue them for nonpayment unless the tenant is 90 days behind). It is a bit distressing for both of us though to suddenly get served with this (this stunt is costing THEM money for the process server, so what do they hope to accomplish, and what else might they try?). I technically have a disability, which in this state opens up a new can of worms with regards to evictions (very difficult unless the landlord has solid evidence, and even then it's tricky).
They held onto our lease renewal for almost two months before returning a copy--state law says that the tenant must receive a copy within 30 days after signing.
I'm meeting with my caseworker in a few weeks and plan to bring the notice and explain that this has been going on, we always pay the rent and what can we do to stop it. Mom's planning to contact the attorney general and explain the situation to see if she can't get an official answer. We suspect that the rental agent (who avoids conflict to the point where she won't even address this issue with mom) is just getting instructions from the higher-ups to send these out; this is one of their 'premium' apartments and they probably want us out...even so, without clear evidence of a lease violation I can't imagine it's legal.
If anyone needs to be evicted it's our upstairs neighbors; we've complained about them before and they always seem to know JUST enough about quiet hours to avoid a call to management.
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