Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Colorado

We recently were going to rent a house and move out of our apartment and gave our landlord 60 days notice. The house fell through and we retracted our withdrawl only to find out 7 days before our lease was to be renewed that they had made a mistake and already rented our apartment out a month earlier. We opted to move to another apartment and not raise a huge fuss with our complex even though we had been there four years. Long story short as the move progressed, fees constantly were being added verbally - an administrative fee, deposits, etc. They sent us email stating our deposit from previous apt would be transferred over to this one, minus any fees, but never stating how much deposit was going to be. When we signed lease on current apartment the security deposit was listed as $0 and they are now saying we owe them $1005 as a security deposit and they made a mistake on the lease and if we don't come in within 48 hours to sign a new lease they will start eviction proceedings. Can they do that? Never did we discuss a set deposit amount, they signed this lease with us and now they want to change it. Can someone help us? Thanks so much!


Asked on 12/09/10, 7:15 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Robert Murillo Pivotal Legal Ltd.

They are full of it. There is a lease. A lease they presumably drafted. If they made a mistake and failed to put the correct deposit term in their lease or otherwise did not draft the lease accurately, that is their loss.

If they continue to threaten an eviction contact an attorney.

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Answered on 12/15/10, 9:51 pm


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