If we lived with a friend for about a year and then moved, can they demand $500 inrent/damages a month later?
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If we lived with a friend for about a year and then moved, can they demand $500 inrent/damages a month later?
Status: No written contract/agreement; $700 per month rent; moved out mid-June; no A/C or cable (on may occasions since friend was always late with paying the bill). Damages: cat urine on carpets he claims (not all of the cats were mine). Friend claims to have taken photos of damages a month after we left.
Asked on July 23, 2011 Maryland
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Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
If you lived with your friend for about a year and paid rent to him, how much was paid on a monthly basis? If rent was regularly paid by you, then there was an implied in fact rental agreement assuming you did not have an oral agreement for monthly rent.
If there is cat urine damage, did any of your cats cause the problem that you know of? If your cat did cause damages and your had been paying rent on a monthly basis toyour friend, he can claim $500 for the last month's rent plus damages. Whether he files suit against you is another question. If he does file a lawsuit for the amount claimed, he still has to prove liability and damages against you.
Good luck.
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