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I recently fell into financial trouble and was evicted from an apartment for being unable to pay rent. I gave my landlord a new address and they already had an email for both my boyfriend and i but we never received a bill and were just notified he's in collections for 8,000 and I am for 7,000. At they legally obligated to notify me when it was Sen to collections or just the bill explaining my deposit being taken (which I never recieved)
You forfeited your deposit when you stopped paying rent, so I'm not sure why you think you'd be getting any of it back.
The collection company won't be able to break down the bill, but if you reach out to your landlord they might. They aren't under any obligation to do so, but they might if you're nice about it.
Was this court ordered eviction? I'm assuming by what you're saying that you didn't go to court because this bill wouldn't have been a surprise to you if you had gone.
Well, within 14, 15, 21 or 30 days (depending on your state) of your move out, they are obligated to give you a breakdown of where your deposit went. But if you were evicted, your deposit probably all went to rent, and the eviction paperwork very possibly states that, which would serve as legal notice.
As for the collections, if you made them fully evict you, there are a lot of costs associated with that. That is why we always tell people when they can't pay rent that they can move voluntarily and owe us a small amount on top of their deposit for cleaning and repairs or they can make us take them to court and owe us thousands. Their choice.
I don't deal with collection companies, so I don't know what the rules are on attempting to bill first. I know you can't get a judgment without serving the tenant with paperwork, but you said "collection", not "judgment", which are not the same thing. I don't think the collection companies care what attempts were made to collect first.
You have the right to protest the collection, but if the landlord can provide documentation showing that you do, in fact, owe the money, the collection agency won't remove it. I don't think that part matters whether the landlord can prove they sent you a bill or not.
But let's cut to the chase and be honest. If you had received the $8000 bill, would you have paid it, or would it have ended up in collections anyway? I'm guessing the latter, in which case, this conversation is a moot point.
You received the bill. That is your notification that you have been sent to collections. If you have proof that you paid it off, then you can present that proof to the collection agency and they will drop you and go after the landlord to get their fee returned.
Since you were evicted for not paying the rent, I suspect that you knew you left owing money.
An Eviction is the end of a long and costly process and it boggles the mind why someone would wait for the Sheriff to put them out when the writing is on the wall...
At least this is how it works in my part of California.
I try to avoid them when possible by having a heart to heart talk stating the obvious... they will be vacating and we can do it the hard way or the easy way...
No one wakes up one morning without a clue they are being evicted.
I recently fell into financial trouble and was evicted from an apartment for being unable to pay rent. I gave my landlord a new address and they already had an email for both my boyfriend and i but we never received a bill and were just notified he's in collections for 8,000 and I am for 7,000. At they legally obligated to notify me when it was Sen to collections or just the bill explaining my deposit being taken (which I never recieved)
They are not required to notify you that they will be sending your debt to collections before doing so. At this stage, you have very little protections so long as they follow the regulations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Your first action is to educate yourself on debts and collections, followed by asking for verification that this debt is even legal. Start here: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/article...ebt-collection
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