So at the beginning of the week my husband received a call from a collection agency stating that we owed $1800 for breaking our lease at our old townhouse--over 18 months ago.
This is true we broke our lease in April 2008 and it said in our lease agreement that we would only owe if the landlord was unable to re-rent the property. So we went back there today and knocked on the door of our place to see how long the person had lived there. He reported he moved in on June 15. Which is two weeks before our lease was up, July 1.
Which means we only owe them $1435 or something. However, we were contacted only one time, the week after we moved out and we called about the letter and were told to ignore it as the computer sends it out automatically and that they would call to let us know how it progressed. We never received anymore contact. So we assumed they rented it and we were good. As stated above more than 18 months later we now have been sent to collections for "breaking our lease"' and not paying. The letter we received from collections (that they received from our apt complex) was the same letter we received dated April 3, 2008.
I realize we do owe $1435, but I don't think we should have to pay it to collections or have that on our credit when we weren't contacted more than one time.
Opinions?
Thanks
Leslie
This is true we broke our lease in April 2008 and it said in our lease agreement that we would only owe if the landlord was unable to re-rent the property. So we went back there today and knocked on the door of our place to see how long the person had lived there. He reported he moved in on June 15. Which is two weeks before our lease was up, July 1.
Which means we only owe them $1435 or something. However, we were contacted only one time, the week after we moved out and we called about the letter and were told to ignore it as the computer sends it out automatically and that they would call to let us know how it progressed. We never received anymore contact. So we assumed they rented it and we were good. As stated above more than 18 months later we now have been sent to collections for "breaking our lease"' and not paying. The letter we received from collections (that they received from our apt complex) was the same letter we received dated April 3, 2008.
I realize we do owe $1435, but I don't think we should have to pay it to collections or have that on our credit when we weren't contacted more than one time.
Opinions?
Thanks
Leslie