Apartment Legal Question

Or look into small claims court, you don't need a lawyer for that.

If I read it correctly your considering your email as sending it to them in writing and you sent the form in after the 60 day deadline? If thats the case does MD consider an email as sending it in writing?

just parsing terms - where they stated:
"...If you fail to provide us with the required notice and you move out anyway, then the Lease term will be automatically..."

They may claim that their form is the required notice, do you remember if they gave you a copy of it when you moved in?

not a lawyer though, and like JR said, having a lawyer send a notice may be enough.

Good Luck.

Just take a baseball bat into the office and start swinging. That should get some results pronto.

If I read it correctly your considering your email as sending it to them in writing and you sent the form in after the 60 day deadline? If thats the case does MD consider an email as sending it in writing?


Thats correct.

I haven't been able to find anything specific on Marylands end. I'll have to research some more tonight.

just parsing terms - where they stated:
"...If you fail to provide us with the required notice and you move out anyway, then the Lease term will be automatically..."

They may claim that their form is the required notice, do you remember if they gave you a copy of it when you moved in?

not a lawyer though, and like JR said, having a lawyer send a notice may be enough.

Good Luck.

No clue if they gave us one when we moved in. I don't think so, but I'm not sure. I looked through everything I signed (and they signed) and nothing stated what the written notice needed to be.

In the grand scheme of things, we're not talking about a boatload of money, about $400. The principle of it is well beyond me though, I feel like I'm getting robbed.

just parsing terms - where they stated:
"...If you fail to provide us with the required notice and you move out anyway, then the Lease term will be automatically..."

They may claim that their form is the required notice, do you remember if they gave you a copy of it when you moved in?

not a lawyer though, and like JR said, having a lawyer send a notice may be enough.

Good Luck.

I kind of think it is their form or the highway. Basically his email was a request for the form and the form was the legal document.

With that said I think your only chance of getting the dollars back is try to win over their soft side.

I kind of think it is their form or the highway. Basically his email was a request for the form and the form was the legal document.

With that said I think your only chance of getting the dollars back is try to win over their soft side.

Or just be a royal pain in their ass.

Squeaky wheel gets the grease.

I kind of think it is their form or the highway. Basically his email was a request for the form and the form was the legal document.

With that said I think your only chance of getting the dollars back is try to win over their soft side.

Yeah this is where we're going to battle. My thing is just going back to the Lease which is the only thing all parties signed, and I complied with everything there....

We'll see, appreciate the feedback though..

No clue if they gave us one when we moved in. I don't think so, but I'm not sure. I looked through everything I signed (and they signed) and nothing stated what the written notice needed to be.

In the grand scheme of things, we're not talking about a boatload of money, about $400. The principle of it is well beyond me though, I feel like I'm getting robbed.

$400 bucks! Just move on not worth the headache. I thought we were talking a couple grand or more.

Here is a lesson when dealing with companies like this follow their rules to the T. You dropped the ball by not giving them that form fast enough so honestly shame on you.

Just recently I cancelled Comcast with in the 30 days by phone and they said you must have your equipment back ASAP. So I brought it to them that day and they gave me a receipt. Fast forward a few weeks someone calls from Comcast saying i owe $X Isaid nope her is a scanned copy of my receipt. $X removed from my file.