Some back story before the meat and taters.
1. She is a well known slum lord in town. She owes the city almost 80k becasue her houses were in such disrepair, they had to be torn down.
2. She REFUSED to grant us a written lease.
3. She has been accepting monthly rent checks that cleary say "Evolution Pool and Arcade"
4. She is known to evict people for no reason.
My friend and I own "Evolution Pool and Arcade". We have a few pool tables and some decent video games that kids can come in and play. We also have concerts that feature some pretty good local bands.
We first rented the store front in the middle of october. When we cut the deal for the rent, she agreed to install new gas heaters, and pay for the gas. She turned around and put in electric heaters, and we have to pay the electric bill. Before we agreed on the ORAL lease, she asked us what we planned to do there. I told her, pool, video games, and live entertainment becasue of the stage. She verbally agreed to that, and i paid the security deposit, and the first months rent.
Well, everything is going fine, until we hold our first concert in the middle of january. When i go to pay rent on February 1st, the landlord commented and said that she got complaints from the people living above us. (keep in mind...this is right down town, and we are in a building that is zoned commercial). I told her that we are going to have three or for shows a month, only on weekends, and the shows would finish up shortly after 10pm.
We had our next set of bands in on a friday night in the middle of february. The next morning, the landlord calls me at work verbally telling me that i have to stop having bands. I told her that she already agreed to it, and we would continue to have bands play.
That saturday we had a great show...and on the monday after it, she posted an eviction notice. On the notice, she gave me 15 days to be out. The eviction notice just included my name, not the buisness or my buisness parter...and she mispelled my name.
We refused to move out, based on the fact that she was going back on her word. Sure enough, she filed eviction papers at the local court. In her complaint she listed these reasons.
1. Rented as a game room, not a band room.
2. Tenants complaining about the noise.
3. Damages to the property (thats laughable at best, we put in over 1000 fixing the place up)
I am going to try and get the case tossed right when the hearing begings, becasue she just notified me, and not me and my buisness partner. If that doesnt work, i know she will not bring in tenents to testify becasue she doesnt think i am going to put up a fight.
Do you think that will work for me?
***important edit***
I am planning on moving the buisness out of her place, and into a much better location. I am just looking to stall this as long as possible.
1. She is a well known slum lord in town. She owes the city almost 80k becasue her houses were in such disrepair, they had to be torn down.
2. She REFUSED to grant us a written lease.
3. She has been accepting monthly rent checks that cleary say "Evolution Pool and Arcade"
4. She is known to evict people for no reason.
My friend and I own "Evolution Pool and Arcade". We have a few pool tables and some decent video games that kids can come in and play. We also have concerts that feature some pretty good local bands.
We first rented the store front in the middle of october. When we cut the deal for the rent, she agreed to install new gas heaters, and pay for the gas. She turned around and put in electric heaters, and we have to pay the electric bill. Before we agreed on the ORAL lease, she asked us what we planned to do there. I told her, pool, video games, and live entertainment becasue of the stage. She verbally agreed to that, and i paid the security deposit, and the first months rent.
Well, everything is going fine, until we hold our first concert in the middle of january. When i go to pay rent on February 1st, the landlord commented and said that she got complaints from the people living above us. (keep in mind...this is right down town, and we are in a building that is zoned commercial). I told her that we are going to have three or for shows a month, only on weekends, and the shows would finish up shortly after 10pm.
We had our next set of bands in on a friday night in the middle of february. The next morning, the landlord calls me at work verbally telling me that i have to stop having bands. I told her that she already agreed to it, and we would continue to have bands play.
That saturday we had a great show...and on the monday after it, she posted an eviction notice. On the notice, she gave me 15 days to be out. The eviction notice just included my name, not the buisness or my buisness parter...and she mispelled my name.
We refused to move out, based on the fact that she was going back on her word. Sure enough, she filed eviction papers at the local court. In her complaint she listed these reasons.
1. Rented as a game room, not a band room.
2. Tenants complaining about the noise.
3. Damages to the property (thats laughable at best, we put in over 1000 fixing the place up)
I am going to try and get the case tossed right when the hearing begings, becasue she just notified me, and not me and my buisness partner. If that doesnt work, i know she will not bring in tenents to testify becasue she doesnt think i am going to put up a fight.
Do you think that will work for me?
***important edit***
I am planning on moving the buisness out of her place, and into a much better location. I am just looking to stall this as long as possible.