My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: New Jersey.
My fiancé and I had a long distance relationship where she lived in NJ for work, and I Orlando. Yadda yadda yadda she got pregnant and we decided it was time for her to move down before her lease ended (3 months left on it). We paid off the remaining months by money order (which apparently we were told we had to) and she had 1,500 in her security deposit that she foolishly thought she would just let them take for the last months rent. Yesterday she was served papers for a small claims appearance for an amount totaling roughly 4,200. Now I completely understand and told her, assuming your deposit will go to your rent is a terrible assumption to make but she pointed out in the rental agreement a line that states that I would in fact be used for that if rent was not paid any given month.
The issue I'm having is that they're claiming she didn't pay last February or Marchs rent. I know for a fact that we paid February because I personally was the one to go get the money order and send it to them. Now, we have to pay legal fees, late costs, cleaning fees, and painting fees on top of these things (which I can understand and am actually okay with.)
My problem really is, in the itemized list there's a break lease fee of 1000 that shows no where within the lease agreement of the papers we were served yesterday. On top of that I need to know if there's any way that we can prove that they cashed the money order for February. Foolishly we didn't keep a serial number/tracking number or anything of that sort because it's been a year and this just came about. We assumed everything was fine. Now we are stuck with a bill for 3 grand that's completely unexpected.
Any help/advice would be much appreciated.
My fiancé and I had a long distance relationship where she lived in NJ for work, and I Orlando. Yadda yadda yadda she got pregnant and we decided it was time for her to move down before her lease ended (3 months left on it). We paid off the remaining months by money order (which apparently we were told we had to) and she had 1,500 in her security deposit that she foolishly thought she would just let them take for the last months rent. Yesterday she was served papers for a small claims appearance for an amount totaling roughly 4,200. Now I completely understand and told her, assuming your deposit will go to your rent is a terrible assumption to make but she pointed out in the rental agreement a line that states that I would in fact be used for that if rent was not paid any given month.
The issue I'm having is that they're claiming she didn't pay last February or Marchs rent. I know for a fact that we paid February because I personally was the one to go get the money order and send it to them. Now, we have to pay legal fees, late costs, cleaning fees, and painting fees on top of these things (which I can understand and am actually okay with.)
My problem really is, in the itemized list there's a break lease fee of 1000 that shows no where within the lease agreement of the papers we were served yesterday. On top of that I need to know if there's any way that we can prove that they cashed the money order for February. Foolishly we didn't keep a serial number/tracking number or anything of that sort because it's been a year and this just came about. We assumed everything was fine. Now we are stuck with a bill for 3 grand that's completely unexpected.
Any help/advice would be much appreciated.
Breaking a Lease: Fiancé Broke Lease with One Month Remaining
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