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Originally Posted by T77911S

you think i am in the right or wrong? do you think i satand a chance?

we are being sued by our old landlord for my wifes business because we moved out a year before our contract was up.

we let him know several months in advance that we wanted to move. he said we need to get someone to take our space, he would even help. (he never did) we asked for that in writing, he would not do it.
there was another guy in the same complex that was going to move out when his lease was up in 3 months and the landlord new it. he wanted a bigger space. he decided he wanted our space since it was bigger.
in the mean time, the landlord was trying to tell my wife she was going to have to sign a NEW contract for the rest of OUR time but for his old space. she told him no we would not do that.
we moved out at the end of november and the new tenant moved in the 1st of december. a month or so later we get a email from the landlord wanting 3 months rent, electric(another story here) and he tacked on a $2500 late fee. he would waive the late fee if we paid everything else, close to 10k.

thats it in its short form.

the electric bill:
our unit and the unit next door use to be one big unit. he split it in half but never put in a second meter base so it was 2 renters on one electric bill.
he added the electric bill into the rent, but at the end of the year we would alwasy get this bill he printed off his computer for more electric. (he never would provide actual bills). and get this, since he added electirc into our rent, he would be getting more than jsut the rent since we would not be in the unit thus no electricity.
here is the kicker. HIS contract stated that the electric bills HAD to be in our name.
we could not do that due to one meter base. i think the contract should be thrown out based on that.
his contract also stated that any other agreements had to be in writing.

my point of view is that if he wanted to move one of his tenants into OUR space, filling or paying for the other tenats space is between that tenant and the landlord, not me.

Shared metering is a big bad no-no. Is your landlord sure he wants to go down that rabbit hole?