Legal Question in Real Estate Law in North Carolina

Re: Lease contract dispute

If you are a party in a federal lawsuit, then you probably need legal representation. If you have not done so already, you need to file your answer, generally within 20 days of service upon you. This is a very treacherous area in which to represent yourself. As for your question, you indeed may have a valid defense, based on the use of the corporation to enter the contract. The use of "LLC" instead of "Inc" probably has no effect in your case, but this would take a little legal research to confirm. Your argument is enhanced if the other side drafted the lease, but of course you had a duty to read it also. Even if there is a corporation, the plaintiff can sometimes sue the owner of the corporation, using a theory called "piercing the corporate veil," but this is generally difficult to do; an attorney would need a lot more facts, and the pleadings in your case, to assess this. Even if you have a valid defense to all of this, it would be very difficult for a non-lawyer to sort through the federal procedural rules to make and support the proper motions to ultimately get yourself dismissed from the case.