Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Texas

late pay penalties

If you are late paying your rent, can the apartment manager (people)enter your appartment, with no prior notice (other then leaving behind a note and inventory), breaking through a privacy dead-bolt, and seize some of your property, removing it and useing it as collateral to be auctioned off if you did not pay? (within 30 days) (plus charge you $100.00 for moving it and $150.00 for storage, $10.00 per day after)? I am talking 25 days late plus some late fee's. (and.) How, even in a slow economy can they lease the same apt.(next door) for $300.00 less then i pay per month?


Asked on 4/27/03, 11:48 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Cheryl Rivera Smith The Smith Law Firm

Re: late pay penalties

If a tenant is being evicted, strict procedures must be followed by the landlord. Dallas has a Housing Crisis Center at 4210 Junius St., Dallas, 214-828-4244 where tenants can get assistance in dealing with landlord abuses. To answer your last question, rents fluctuate, and as times change they go up and down. A lease is a contract to pay a certain amount of rent for a certain period of time. After that time has expired, rents can be renegotiated up or down.

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Answered on 4/28/03, 10:46 am


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