- Sep 30, 2001
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Here is the deal. Before I moved into this apartment my brother lived here with a friend for 2 years. Once I graduated from HS and went to college I moved in in place of my brothers friend and lived with my brother for one year, he graduated after that. When I moved in, I was only 17 thus I didn't sign the lease, I was only listed as an occupant.
Now it is the next year after my brother moved out. When I renewed the lease all I did was sign a lease contract renewal with my new roomate. The very first paragraph states
Not once in the 3 years that my brother lived in the place were we billed for Water/sewage/gas, even though it was in the lease that they would bill us for it. All of the sudden starting in January they started sending me water/sewage/gas bills. I would have paid them, but the fact that the first one they sent was trying to bill me for November thru January....(check out the pics of the bills at the bottom) made me do some investigation.
Getting these bills, I started combing through my lease and renewal forms from them. I am 99% sure that our lease is invalid with them for the following reasons.
1) Neither of me and my current roomate's names are on the original lease
2) The ownership of the complex has changed since the original lease
3) We signed the current Renewal form May 21st, 2004, and my brother signed the original lease in 2001. So there is no way the copyright date can be within 2 years.
We have tried to explain this to them, but they continue to say that they will put stuff on our credit reports...mine, my brothers, and current roomates. Even though my brother is not even under contract from them anymore. I'm calling their BS and heading over to the UT Legal Services to get an official letter drafted up and sent to them through registered mail.
Basically I'm going to tell them that they can't touch my credit, and that I don't owe them anything.
Am I in the right here? What can they do to me?
Any insight?
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/christen/Water_001.jpg
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/christen/water_002.jpg
Now it is the next year after my brother moved out. When I renewed the lease all I did was sign a lease contract renewal with my new roomate. The very first paragraph states
This Lease Contract Renewal is not valid unless two conditions are satisfied: (1) the owner and residents must be exactly the same as those in the original Lease Contract, i.e. the last full lease, and (2) the year in which this Lease Contract Renewal is filled out must be no later then two years after the TAA copyright year shown at the bottom of each page of the Lease Contract. Otherwise, a completely new Lease Contract on the latest TAA Lease Contract form must be used.
Not once in the 3 years that my brother lived in the place were we billed for Water/sewage/gas, even though it was in the lease that they would bill us for it. All of the sudden starting in January they started sending me water/sewage/gas bills. I would have paid them, but the fact that the first one they sent was trying to bill me for November thru January....(check out the pics of the bills at the bottom) made me do some investigation.
Getting these bills, I started combing through my lease and renewal forms from them. I am 99% sure that our lease is invalid with them for the following reasons.
1) Neither of me and my current roomate's names are on the original lease
2) The ownership of the complex has changed since the original lease
3) We signed the current Renewal form May 21st, 2004, and my brother signed the original lease in 2001. So there is no way the copyright date can be within 2 years.
We have tried to explain this to them, but they continue to say that they will put stuff on our credit reports...mine, my brothers, and current roomates. Even though my brother is not even under contract from them anymore. I'm calling their BS and heading over to the UT Legal Services to get an official letter drafted up and sent to them through registered mail.
Basically I'm going to tell them that they can't touch my credit, and that I don't owe them anything.
Am I in the right here? What can they do to me?
Any insight?
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/christen/Water_001.jpg
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/christen/water_002.jpg