I was a renter in an apartment. The story started in June last year, I gave the owner of the apartment two checks for two months because I would be not available to give him the rent in person because I was traveling. On July, 29, 2015, I got a problem because someone used my phone online account to replace my phone with a new one and pay the difference. Once I got the email of the order replacement, I transferred the money from my checking account to the saving account on 08/03/2015 to save the money until I connected with the company to see what happened. At that time, I forgot about the rent and on the fourth of August, I got an email with a returned check. The owner connected with me, and I told him to give me his account information, but he refused and told me he would find a way to send him the money but he didn’t. Then he told me to give him the money when I got back to the apartment. When I met him later in the month, he told me that he would charge me $375 for the late payment, which he didn’t tell me about it till before. Anyway, I said ” ok, but I will pay you monthly, ” he said “ok.” I paid him first $150 plus the rent for two months. In the next month, which was October, I paid him $125 plus the rent. In Nov, I paid him $50. Then he told me that was not what he charged me for, it was more. I showed him a proof for what he asked for. The remaining was $50, I told him to take it from my deposit, and he said ok.
At the end of November, I told him that “I will leave the apartment in January, but I didn’t know when” because I was waiting my admission.
He told me “are you going the pay the rent?” I said “yes, I will pay you the whole amount and when I leave return me the difference of it.” He said ” yeah, sure, but that will take a few weeks” I said “it’s ok.”
In February, I asked him to return the money, he told me he will just give me $500 where he owns me the deposit and the remaining of the rent, where the deposit is $750 and the rent was the same. I said ” No, you own me more than that.”
He then blocked my number to don’t connect him. Then, I told my friend to send him what I wrote for him.
I go back and forth with him, and every time I tell him what he supposes to return, he put the return check in the first place to reduce the amount that he has to return.
I have a witness for that, he said he will return the difference of the rent because my friend was with me in my room when I told him to return the difference and he accepted.
I left the house at night of 01/07/2016, where the rent was $750 and $25 per day.
The deposit was also $750
If we say I stay with him 8 days is equal $200, which will remain $550.
The deposit $750 – $50 (that I own him) plus $20 (for a box he sent) will equal $680
The difference of the rent + the remaining of the deposit = total
$550 + $680 = $1230
The question is: do I deserve to get the whole money ($1230) from him? Or not? If so, how can I get what I deserve of the money, whereas he denies to return it? Because I give him what he asked of charge, and I’m not responsible for his words and for what he asked.
