Moved into apt. in Feb. of '06...paid one month's security and first month's rent. From June '06 to August of '06 I had 2 evictions filed against me from them due to my mom(who was staying with me & had agreed to pay the rent) not paying them all of the rent. Since then though, I've always paid them, not on time, but they have always accepted partial in the first 2 wks. & then the rest at the end of the month, between the 20th-27th. They have accepted this ever since August of '06. Now this month, I had surgery and i had to pay for that, so I was only able to give them $160 on the 16th of August. I still owe them $364. I'm still not home, but my neighbor who checks my mail said that I received letter from them, stating that if I do not pay them the full amount by this Friday, August 24th, they will file papers. Can they just use my security deposit to pay the rent due? I was in a year lease w/ them lst year, now I'm mnth-to-mnth.
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Last year, when I had the 2 evictions filed, I never went to court for them b/c I paid them b4 we could go, so they dropped it...but they told me last year(when I was under the year lease) that if they had to file papers again, they would evict me for sure, and I'd have to leave.