On or about July 2006 my wife and I started renting a house. In October of the same year, my wife contacted the landlord and told her that due to the uninsulated house being airy and the utility bills going to be high we would have to move that we couldn't afford the rent. (We both are disabled and on a fixed income). With out an answer from the landlord we sent her the rent check at the beginning of November and about 3 days after the landlord received the check she calls stating she was going to lower the rent $100.00 because she didn't want to loose us as renters due to the improvements we made on move in. We cleaned the place up of weeds and trash and threw out over 16 bags of garbage (never got a thankyou either nor a reduction in anything). The landlord said to issue her another check for the lesser amount and that she would destroy the larger check.
On January 7th of this year, my wife had to appear in court over an eviction notice and the landlord asked in her complaint for reembursement of rent for the months we paided the lesser amount. The Judge refused to grant that motion.
After the court hearing, the wife went to the bank to check our balance and seen it was $500.00 short of what it should have been. Upon inquiring with the bank they said our former landlord presented them a check for $500.00 and that they questioned it because they all knew that we were in a health issue dispute with the landlord, but they paided the check. The check was 14 months old.
What recourse do we have on recooping this $500.00 that she scammed us out of? The landlord still hasn't paid us back our deposit yet but that is another issue. Some attorneys tells us that there is a law governing checks that old but the county D.A.'s paralegal won't let us talk to the DA and the paralegal says we don't have a criminal case.
We live in Kentucky.
On January 7th of this year, my wife had to appear in court over an eviction notice and the landlord asked in her complaint for reembursement of rent for the months we paided the lesser amount. The Judge refused to grant that motion.
After the court hearing, the wife went to the bank to check our balance and seen it was $500.00 short of what it should have been. Upon inquiring with the bank they said our former landlord presented them a check for $500.00 and that they questioned it because they all knew that we were in a health issue dispute with the landlord, but they paided the check. The check was 14 months old.
What recourse do we have on recooping this $500.00 that she scammed us out of? The landlord still hasn't paid us back our deposit yet but that is another issue. Some attorneys tells us that there is a law governing checks that old but the county D.A.'s paralegal won't let us talk to the DA and the paralegal says we don't have a criminal case.
We live in Kentucky.