Is it legal for a landlord to post past due notices on your apartment door with the name amount due and other information showing to the public?
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Is it legal for a landlord to post past due notices on your apartment door with the name amount due and other information showing to the public?
Recently a new apartment that I leased posted a past due demand for payment on my front door, although I paid all requested fees at the time of lease signing. No one told me that I owed any other monies. The notice was posted facing out so that anyone who passed by could read it. When I called the office they said it was an error and I didn’t owe any money. They told me posting it so everyone could see it was policy and a means of pressuring tenants to pay. Especially since it was done in error, I feel that this carries a certain level of defamation of character.
Asked on April 5, 2012 under Real Estate Law, Florida
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
If the information posted on the rental that you have contains accurate information with respect to amount of money due with respect to the rental that you have, there is nothing improper or illegal based upon what you have written. In fact, many state statutes have provisions allowing (and even requiring) the posting of such information that you have written about on the door to the rental that you occupy.
Unfortunately in your situation the posting from what you have written was done in error. I understand that you are not happy about the error, but the difficulty with your question is that even though a wrong was committed, how were you damaged in terms of dollars and cents?
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