What to do if I joined the military with orders to basic training and notified my apartment complex but the manager refused to remove my name from the lease?
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What to do if I joined the military with orders to basic training and notified my apartment complex but the manager refused to remove my name from the lease?
Now I have a collection on my credit.
Asked on January 6, 2013 under Real Estate Law, California
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 11 years ago | Contributor
Under the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act your former landlord was to release you from the balance of your lease within thirty (30) days of you giving him or her notice of your new deployment. I would contact a consumer law attorney to assist you in getting the collection claim and possible judgment against you resolved.
Bad landlord.
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