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oh yea. this should be fun. this should be on judge judy.

my wife has a scrapbooks store. we still had a year left on our space, but we wanted to move to a better/cheaper location. the agreement(verbal) was we had to have someone take over our lease. we did. but, it was someone in the same complex that wanted a bigger space. so there was no break in time for our space. we moved out in like nov, and he moved in in dec.
now the fun. the landlord had mentioned that he wanted us to take over the rent on the other space for the year we had left on our contract or until that space was rented. we made a point to never agree to this, we just kept moving along avoiding it. once the new tenant signed the lease for our old space, we had no more contact with the landlord.
then a few months ago he sends an email to us wanting the back rent on the tenants space the remainder of HIS lease (which we found out that space was only empty a month or 2 at the most) plus money for the electric, which was included in the rent, but he wanted more because he said the electric bill was hi. then he said we owed for sept, which we have a canceled check for and get this, a $3k late fee! for what! we never got a bill to be late for! he siad he would waive the late fee if we paid all the other stuff in 10 days. there were some other things in there but little stuff. i think the bill was for aroun 8-10k.

we have not been served yet and from what i understand this will go before a magistrate.
i am not worried about it, ok maybe 5%. i think a judge is going to laugh him right out of court with the claims he is making. as far as i am concerned, all contracts were broken the minute the new tenant signed for my space. i had lawyer send him a letter in response to his email. i really thought that would be the last of him.

to be continued.....same bat time, same bat channel


this must be the decade for lawyers for me, and its still early. not good.