Anyone have experience with Contract Law?

[Devlin]

Glad you and your brother won and it seems your landlord was made to lok like a complete ass.

 

[gococksDJS]

Gococks...



































Congratulations!
An awesome story to be remembered.. The jerk tries to sue you and ends up owing you $600 each.. priceless!!


Im curious though.. How did the judge come to the conclusion that you and your brother were soley responsible for the whole $1200 the last month? At the least shouldnt that have been spread to the 3rd guy, if not the girl too?

Well I was very surprised as to how much the Judge can bend or ignore contract law based on what he feels was right or wrong. This worked for us some in the case, but it also worked against us. The judge determined that there was a binding contract with each tenant for $300 a month, and that the bitch who moved out was responsible for her share, and the landlord could not sue for $1200, but had to target a certain tenant not all of us. The girl moved out only about 4 months into the lease, the third roommate moved out one month early because he graduated, which was fine because he also decided not to pay the last months rent like me and my brother because of our security deposits being used up without our knowledge. So based on this, the judge said that by agreeing to let my third roommate move out one month in advance, me and my brother entered into an agreement that made us the sole tenants of the residence, and thus responsible for the entire $1200, or $600 a piece for the duration of our occupation of the property. I brought up a law stating that rent can only be increased at the beginning of a lease or before renewal of a lease or through agreement from both parties providing proper legal documentation, and this was a clear 50% increase in rent due to the fact that the judge ruled that the rent was on a per person basis, but the judge countered that the rent on the house itself was not being raised, just how much each person owed per month, which I thought was conflicting. Another thing that took me by surprise was his dismissal of my request for funds the landlord owed me based on other breaches of the contract. I showed that by law, the landlord has to provide 24 hour notice to the tenants if he plans to enter the house for routine maintenance, and he did not do this twice. Once he broke a window to get in, and didn't fix it for 3 days. The judge ruled that these instances were not emergency based and ruled in favor of me, but denied payment of any of the amount I was asking for in the counter suit, which was only $25 per unauthorised entry, or $100. He also overlapped leases, by allowing new tenants to sign a contract 30 days for the house before ours was expired, and since he did not file official eviction notice, he was found guilty on this charge as well but again the judge denied me the money I was requesting, which was one months rent for me and my brother because we had to leave a month before the contract was officially up, which was another $600. I asked him why I was being denied payment and he said "Because I feel you are trying to get back at your landlord for filing the initial suit. You have been awarded what the court feels is adequate payment for any inconveniences you encountered, and I don't see why you should be awarded any further amount" then he adjourned. Some of his decisions were bullshit, but at least I got some money out of it.

 

[Big Smoothy]

Way to go GoCocks.

I don't know if you are happy with the verdict, but this landlord broke the rules.

 

[Triple Threat]

You came out of this with more money than you went in with. Sounds to me like you won.

 

[Dale Mabry]

You came out of this with more money than you went in with. Sounds to me like you won.

The only exception being the memory of his innocence lost.