unknownUser
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Our problem is this, we moved into a house after the landlord made a whole bunch of promises like he would move the boiler so we can get a washer and dryer he never did and told us to spend 1500 bux on a stackable set. He told us the yard was good for our kids, at first look it did look then our kids started to get roofing nails in their feet and our tires were getting popped again we told him about this he said it wasn't his problem. He would also call a week before rent screaming at myself and my wife demanding rent as well as calling on new years eve saying if we didnt pay our rent which wasnt due he would come down and kick my ass. He didnt fix any electrical problems we had to have extension cords laying all around the house because the ac units wouldnt work in the rooms he put them. He would call up screaming at us if we didnt have credit on our pre paid phone and also took our 14 year old son to the gas station without our permission to buy pre paid cards for our phones which he then told us we had to pay him back for. We also had a tornado come through where we lived casuing damage to the property and the neighbours property we had our driveway completely blocked by a fallen tree which he also said was not his problem. This went on for over a year and in the end we couldnt handle it anymore and we moved and broke the tenacy agreement which we both admit we did wrong. But now 2 years after we left he is claiming we caused sixteen thousand dollars worth of damage to his house (which by the way he has on the market for 39000 cash) We now get the occasional letter in the mail from a supposedly legal consultant demanding we pay this 16 thousand we speak to him and ask him if we should get a lawyer and he says no we dont need to do that we told him that the landlord had the house on the market for only 39000 and he told us that doesnt matter. then we didnt hear nothing for about 3 months Then we started to get letters again giving us 10 days to reply or face more legal actions. We really dont know what to do. We admit to breaking the lease but there is no way we caused 16 thousand dollars worth of damage and as i say we never heard a thing about this for 2 years. Should we get a lawyer? Because the landlords legal consultant says we dont need to but says we have to pay this money.
