Apartment Complex in Fl

[slplsnt]

Thank you for any assistance.

Just after the 9/11 tragedy my girlfriend lost her job. She worked for a tech company that was hit hard by the downturn in the economy.

After loosing her job she maintained her apartment with unemployment benefits and my help. Once her benefits ended there was no way I could pay her entire rent so she moved into my house.

She gave the complex 60 days notice to terminate her lease. At that point the manager told her he was going to back-charge her for rent discounts that were offered to her when she signed the lease.

After moving out the manager charged her for cleaning claiming she left the apartment full of trash. I cleaned the place myself and it was spotless.

The total bill was said to be approximately $1500. The collection agency had been calling and threatening lawsuits etc. Currently they have stopped calling but have reported to the credit bureau.

Is there anyway to remove this from her report? It is keeping her from renting another apartment without a co-signer. She never recovered financially from the loss so she can’t pay it off.

[wert]

Just like anything else, you can always dispute it with the CRAs. However, if it is pretty recent the complex will probably verify it out of spite.

The other alternative is to try to work something out with the manager of the complex. He said, she said is hard to work out sometimes, the cleanliness for instance. But you might try.

[anti-something]

demand the contract that says she is required to pay back any discounts (its probably correct but get it anyway!)

demand the cleaning invoices for the apartment, any pictures the apartment took of the place.

check the state laws for the refund of any deposits, some states require a good accounting of any money taken from a deposit, and the apartment maybe limited to taking only 'actual damages' in some states.