UWS-Tenant
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Area: NYC UWS, preferential rent and (possibly stab, need to check)
Background:
Thanks in advance.
Background:
- Been living in this apt for a while, after my brother moved out (early 2017). I never had any contract under my name.
- For the recent contract term starting from Sept 2018, I never signed/returned the lease back to the landlord which is set to end this September 2020
- March 2020 rent was paid, full rent $2000
- Early March, I gave notice to my landlord that I am leaving at the end of April
- Notified her about it and she did not oppose.
- I left early in the first week of April.
- She walked through and checked out the apartment with her husband, and claimed it was clean.
- I asked the LL that I would like to use the deposit ($1800) in their hands and I'd be paying just the difference of $200 ($2000 rent - $1800 deposit= $200 difference)
- She did not accept it. She said I will need to send her to full amount
- She also demanded multiple times that I sign and return the contract (for her own records she says.. but I am not interested in doing so as it might make me obligated to pay until Sept 2020)
- Its May now, and April rent has not been paid. She is constantly calling and leaving voice mails. She is threatening to go to collection agency to get her money.
- I told her that I am willing to pay her $200 and she can keep the deposit to close the deal, and she keeps refusing it.
- Is there a way she can get collection agency involved? There is no signed contract. Can they use something else as an evidence to make their case? Its in NYC and there are some governor's exec orders that might protect me under this case? Not sure
- I have good intentions and asking to close the term by paying it off using my deposit and the difference needed. Do I have any case to use my deposit inside given the fact that she confirmed deposit will be returned in full once she receives the full amount.
- What's the motive behind her constantly asking for the signed contract.
Thanks in advance.
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