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Old 06-23-2015, 12:28 PM
 
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22 years ago my girlfriend moved into my apartment with me. She had lost her apartment and left her job due to being sexually harassed by her boss. She lived with me, unemployed, while she went to therapy and sued him and his company. When the case concluded, she wanted to move out of my place. Because I had good credit, she begged me to sign a lease for an apartment so she could live in another city, with her agreement to pay the rent. We remained friends all these years but I never lived there one day. After 20 yrs of her faithfully paying the rent, the rental company somehow discovered I did not live there, and they evicted her at the end of May 2015. They refused to accept her final month's rent money order and sent it back to her, and want to contact me. I had moved out of her state and across the country in 2013, and am unemployed, so I can't afford to attend any court proceedings in her state. The money orders are filled out already in her handwriting with her as the Purchaser, and the landlord's name is listed as Pay To The Order Of. So I can't cash them in and sign new money orders, so now I am liable to pay her rent out of my own meager savings. As a further insult, she sent the returned filled-out money orders to me, and she is ducking me now, and will not reply to texts or phone calls. What can the landlord legally to do me as punishment? I realize now that I was illegally subletting the apartment, although she was forging my name as the "Purchaser" on money orders.
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Old 06-23-2015, 01:16 PM
 
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Call a lawyer, talk to them, and see what your actual legal advice is. It shouldn't cost a dime to talk over the problem, but you need to get actual legal advice to see how you can limit your liability on paying rent for someone who isn't helping you out.
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Old 06-23-2015, 01:36 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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20 years!?! And are you sure there isn't more to the story? No landlord would evict a tenant who has been paying rent regularly over 20 years.
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Old 06-23-2015, 02:18 PM
 
Location: ......SC
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You know, you CAN get your money back on a money order. Just do a search on "money order how to refund". I have done it myself twice, just recently.

And...I have to agree with davenj08.
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Old 06-23-2015, 02:20 PM
 
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I second getting a lawyer. This is probably not the type of advice you want to get from an internet message board.
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Old 06-23-2015, 03:35 PM
 
Location: NJ
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This story doesn't make any sense (or something is missing). Why would a rental company care who is living in the apartment as long as they are getting the rent paid, and for 20 years no less. If this woman had stopped paying rent then you would ultimately be responsible for the payments as it's your name on the lease.
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Old 06-23-2015, 03:43 PM
 
Location: in here, out there
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I wouldn't pay.
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Old 06-23-2015, 05:38 PM
 
Location: Bradenton/Sarasota FL
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Smells fishy
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Old 06-24-2015, 12:28 AM
 
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A few things are missing here...
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Old 06-24-2015, 11:55 AM
 
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Thank you all for replying to my problem. Something is fishy, that's why I'm asking for advice! How did they discover I don't live there? She won't answer me. So how do I know what really happened? I'm too broke for a lawyer unless it's Legal Aid... But the thing is, why would they suddenly want to throw her out? She said they were very offensive in how they told her in person, then suddenly the same guy ran into her two weeks later coincidentally right outside her apartment, walking his dog. Suddenly he was all apologetic about how they treated her, claiming the company is corrupt. (I went on Apartment Review.com and that is what tenants say about the place.) Anyway, if a corrupt company is suddenly real interested in me and DOESN'T WANT THE MONEY FROM HER, something is scary about all that to me!
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