Jason in LA
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? CA
My girlfriend and I had an apartment that was in her name. We lived there for about 4 years. We payed our rent in full every month. Sometimes it was late and we were charged a late few. Other than that, we were good tennants. Our landlord wanted to get more rent out of the place. She was charging us $550, but she wants to get $600 out of the place. Since she can't raise our rent that much, she wanted us out. I got in an argument with her in early April. I told her we'll be moving at the end of May. About a week after that an inspector knocked on my door, and said he needed to inspect the building because it needed major repairs. The landlord told all the tennants not to let him in. She knew she would have to finally fix the place if he was let in. I let the guy in because I knew it was the only way to make the landlord fix the place. It worked, and she had to do major repairs to the place to bring it up to code. Well, because of this she is trying to screw us over. She started the eviction process on us even though we had been paying our rent in full. But about a week after we got the notice of eviction, she told my girlfriend that she was going to drop the case. So we thought nothing of it after that, which turned out to be a huge mistake on our part. As we were moving everything out on May 31, a sheriff shows up and serves us with papers to get out of the apartment. It kind of shocked us. I guess the landlord lied about dropping the case so we wouldn't show up in court. Now my girlfriend is going to have an eviction on her record. What can we do to get the eviction off of her record? In the future I'm going to make sure I know every detail of any legal case. We really got screwed because we didn't pay attention to details.
My girlfriend and I had an apartment that was in her name. We lived there for about 4 years. We payed our rent in full every month. Sometimes it was late and we were charged a late few. Other than that, we were good tennants. Our landlord wanted to get more rent out of the place. She was charging us $550, but she wants to get $600 out of the place. Since she can't raise our rent that much, she wanted us out. I got in an argument with her in early April. I told her we'll be moving at the end of May. About a week after that an inspector knocked on my door, and said he needed to inspect the building because it needed major repairs. The landlord told all the tennants not to let him in. She knew she would have to finally fix the place if he was let in. I let the guy in because I knew it was the only way to make the landlord fix the place. It worked, and she had to do major repairs to the place to bring it up to code. Well, because of this she is trying to screw us over. She started the eviction process on us even though we had been paying our rent in full. But about a week after we got the notice of eviction, she told my girlfriend that she was going to drop the case. So we thought nothing of it after that, which turned out to be a huge mistake on our part. As we were moving everything out on May 31, a sheriff shows up and serves us with papers to get out of the apartment. It kind of shocked us. I guess the landlord lied about dropping the case so we wouldn't show up in court. Now my girlfriend is going to have an eviction on her record. What can we do to get the eviction off of her record? In the future I'm going to make sure I know every detail of any legal case. We really got screwed because we didn't pay attention to details.