location: ohio. As the title says. Working with my gf’s parents’ lawyer but hoping to resolve this between us without having to go to court. He has not taken us seriously even once in two years of living in this rental and blamed every single issue with the rental itself on us. Lease is up the 26th, I went back the 22nd to clean out the last few personal items and found it empty. Several boxes of clothing and shoes, some dishes, etc are gone- presumably destroyed. The landlord has admitted this was a mistake on his end- apparently a “mixed up lease”. I just need to know if I am asking for too much/ too little and if legally any of the wordage in this message should be changed/ removed:
Landlord, I am reaching out to express our extreme concern and frustration with the way that this was handled. You allowed cleaners to enter our living space with no regard for our safety or privacy and removed items which belonged to us. There was no communication at any point. Personal items with both financial and emotional value were lost forever due to your negligence. You breached the terms of our lease and allowed these items to be illegally removed and destroyed. This comes after two years of dismissing our concerns about the rental and complete disrespect towards our time and space. I am eager to find a solution to this issue and move forward. In the interest of complete transparency, we have spoken with a lawyer to understand what our next steps are. I am hoping we can come to a civil agreement as adults on this issue and not have to involve a higher power. We believe it is more than reasonable to request that you return the full security deposit without question considering we have no way to prove that any damage caused in the rental was not on part of the cleaners who entered during the lease period. We also would request the full final month’s rent returned due to the breach of lease. Please contact me here or at my phone number: 740-974-5903 via text to discuss next steps.
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You might want to delete your phone number from this reddit post.
In your talks with a lawyer did they advise you to send this message as it is drafted? Your best off listening to their advice. However if you include in your message saying that you’ve spoken to a lawyer it comes off as a veiled threat of litigation and they may just clamp down rather than working with you. If your looking to work it out without litigation than careful about that part.