Recently my roomate had moved out and a new roomate had moved in as of March 1st. I kept telling the old roomate that she needed to get her name off the lease and put my new roomates name on the lease, which she never had done. To make a long story short our April rent was late...half of which was paid on the 19th along with a letter explaining the situation and that the other half would be in by the end of the month and that we would pay may and june's rent at the sametime. On April 28th we received a notice on our door that the landlord had filed a complaint against us and is taking us to court on the 9th of May. As soon as I got home and saw that I contacted the office immediately. I advised them that when my roomate got out of work, which was 6pm, she would be dropping the rest of April rent off. She began to tell me that it was already 5pm on friday and that it was too late. I asked her why no one contacted me, which is what the letter said "if you have any further questions please contact me", and that I wanted to speak to Management. (Which is Emess Management which I have been reading a lot about lately and how they try to get extra money out of people illegally!!!!) She then replied to me I'm not going there with you and hung up the phone. I have been trying to get in touch with emess management and they just dont answer their phone or call anyone back. I really don't know what to do. My new roomate is going to have her name put on the lease on Thurs and I guess we will be going to court on Tues, the 9th. If anyone has any adviced as to what I should do, please let me know!!!!! I can not be kicked out of this apt. and I think this is very unfair considering I have lived there for a year and this is the first time we were late with rent!!
A couple little things to consider. My sliding glass door was broken and I paid $500 to have a new one put it. They said it didn't include the screen and the lock is broken. I called about the lock and they said to just use the bar.....I did not pay $500 to not have a working door. Also we are charged an extra $50 from October to April for heat. I complained about paying April but they insisted that we had to b/c it snowed a couple weeks before that. On sat, the 29th, it was chilly so I decided to turn the heat on and it didn't even work!!! I'm scared to countersue for these things b/c they might kick us out!!
A couple little things to consider. My sliding glass door was broken and I paid $500 to have a new one put it. They said it didn't include the screen and the lock is broken. I called about the lock and they said to just use the bar.....I did not pay $500 to not have a working door. Also we are charged an extra $50 from October to April for heat. I complained about paying April but they insisted that we had to b/c it snowed a couple weeks before that. On sat, the 29th, it was chilly so I decided to turn the heat on and it didn't even work!!! I'm scared to countersue for these things b/c they might kick us out!!
