Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in Florida

Re: Collections

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All amounts due should have been paid before you left the apartment complex. Apparently, you had a past due balance which was already delinquent at the time you vacated the premises.

There is no set time which a creditor must hold a bill before sending it to a collection agency. I am surprised that the landlord would do it within two weeks, however, as stated above, it was already delinquent when you vacated the premises so the time period is actually much greater and they seem to have deemed you a risk to pay.

Scott R. Jay, Esq.