Landlord problems

Well to summarize a long and agonizing story......my husband, children, and I moved to a apartment, for financial purposes.

We gave our beep beep beep landlord, who has been a crook since the beginning, our 30 day notice......verbally.

We were great tenants.....we payed rent on time, every single month we lived there. The original agreement was pay then live.....that's what the first months rent and deposit was for before we even moved in.

Well the jerk is claiming that we owe last months rent.....but we have the receipt!!!......lol....what a idiot.

Anyway, a couple days before we moved out I called the jerk, asking what needed to be done for us to receive our deposit......that's when he mentioned that we owed rent, and we could sign some paper to let him keep the deposit instead of pay rent......he thinks I'm a idiot, that's why he talks to me, instead of my husband.

Well we finally got out of there. We had to leave some things behind, and yes we did end up taking more then 30 days to get out of there.....but I figured since he refused to give us our deposit that we could take our time getting out.

He began calling saying if we didn't come get our stuff that night he would throw it away. My husband tried to call him after work but of course he would not answer.

Well I finally went there to pick up the last load.....and all our stuff was in the trash on the curb.

My kids toys, clothes, dishes, small stuff like laundry baskets, and bathroom stuff. Our vacuums.

I began digging through the trash and started loading up the car with what I could salvage. Then the jerk came out and was rude to me saying "give me my keys, I want my keys".

I gave them to him, and didn't say a word, because I figured I'd take the %#@&#! to court, and I didn't want anything against me.

I then looked into my husbands van....which is parked on the property, and our air conditioner, his carpet tools, and many other things are missing.....the sonava ***** stole our stuff.

Does anybody have any suggestions on what can be done, and what I should do. I assume the van is gone now, which means everything inside of it is gone too.

I really want to make this %#@&#! pay.......what should I do?

Desirae

In my state you would be screwed ...you are suppose to give then 30 full days to re rent the property ...they can take a fee for your stuff you left behind and the work it took to remove it, they can charge you per day that you stayed over...You will have to check with your state tenate landlord laws. That was mean of him and I am sorry he threw the stuff out ..and or kept some of it but I fear he can say he put it in the trash and someone took it...best of luck that sure sucks to be frank

I am so sorry that your family had to endure such a crappy situation. My husband and i just went through court dealing with our landlord and we totally @#$%ed him.I am currently taking law in university and i that you take the jerk to court. Charge him with theft, vandalisim, and improper missconduct. AND DON'T SIGN ANYTHING!!!!
As for the rent thing that was messed up because you didn't write it. When we gave our notice we wrote 2 copies and made the landlord sign both of them.
If you have any witnesses to anything make sure that you get them to appear in court or to write, sign, date, and leave contact info in a letter for you to take to court. He seems like a slum lord so play dirty. Think of every little thing that he has done wrong or was wrong with the suite.
And when he threw your stuff out i would not have given him the keys until he replaced the damged and missing things. That is his problem that he can't rent his place because he did the damage
If you take him to court make it so that he has to pay you for damages to property, replacing missing property and trauma to family.
Good Luck and make sure that you always do everything in writeing and before and after pictures in your new place. Nothing can stand against these in court. Also try to talk to other tenants in the building, see if they have any problems with the landlord because thier statements are admisable in court.
make him pay

sorry you had to go through that. A POX on his whole house!!

how long into the month did you finish getting your stuff out? I know here you have to be out by the 1st of the month. Not sure you have grounds since he had already told you to come get your belongings. But the notice you gave him should have been in writing I would think. Good luck hon