My landlord (also my uncle)
Rented me and my family a house with a leaky roof, and in awful shape under the conditions that he would repair the roof and if we liked we could fix the place up a bit. there was no written lease, it was all verbal, month to month.
long story short, he never got the roof fixed and about 4 months in he told us the siding was made of Asbestos! the only reason he even told us then (as we had been making many improvements to the home) is because we asked if we could replace the siding.
we made probably around 500$ worth of renovations to the home over several months but the roof was never fixed. so we moved. we got an apartment and arranged to have our things moved but before we could he changed the locks on the doors! when we told him this was illegal he gave us the key AFTER we called the cops. then two days later we came back to move some more stuff, and they were changed Again!
he informed us that our ac units had been stolen. how did he know we had not taken them? and had our car towed off of his property without notice to us and still has not told us where it is! the car was parked in a locked, gated property, out of the way, with verbal consent from him and had approximately 1500$ worth of Items stored inside it.
So we filed a small claims suit.
he answered with a countersuit claiming 6000$ worth of damages to the property, however, the property was in better condition when we left than when we began renting. I doubt he even had a certificate of occupancy. according to our state law the house was condemnable.
Do we have a case?
Rented me and my family a house with a leaky roof, and in awful shape under the conditions that he would repair the roof and if we liked we could fix the place up a bit. there was no written lease, it was all verbal, month to month.
long story short, he never got the roof fixed and about 4 months in he told us the siding was made of Asbestos! the only reason he even told us then (as we had been making many improvements to the home) is because we asked if we could replace the siding.
we made probably around 500$ worth of renovations to the home over several months but the roof was never fixed. so we moved. we got an apartment and arranged to have our things moved but before we could he changed the locks on the doors! when we told him this was illegal he gave us the key AFTER we called the cops. then two days later we came back to move some more stuff, and they were changed Again!
he informed us that our ac units had been stolen. how did he know we had not taken them? and had our car towed off of his property without notice to us and still has not told us where it is! the car was parked in a locked, gated property, out of the way, with verbal consent from him and had approximately 1500$ worth of Items stored inside it.
So we filed a small claims suit.
he answered with a countersuit claiming 6000$ worth of damages to the property, however, the property was in better condition when we left than when we began renting. I doubt he even had a certificate of occupancy. according to our state law the house was condemnable.
Do we have a case?