My landlord rented us a house, with a in law trailer, and detached garage. We could live in trailer for free while we did repairs on trailer and home, and my husband would get paid hourly. We made all necessary repairs on trailer. I obtained custody of my other child, and landlord decides he doesnt want us to move into home because the home is "uninhabitable" and he doesnt want the courts around here. Now he gave us 30 days verbal to vacate, and wont return the security deposit back on the "house" we never moved into. He also wont pay us for all of the repairs. It seems he scammed us from the beginning. Everything is documented in e-mails. This guy is wacko, even has cameras watching our every move, on every corner of every building. We have only been here 2 months, now we are forced to move, after we made EXTENSIVE repairs. We cant get our sec dep back even tho we never signed a lease or even moved into the home. He told us he got the letter that his house was uninhabitable BEFORE we moved in, but he didnt think it was a bad idea until now. Wouldnt you think we had MAJOR legal recourse against this guy? Thanks all for your answers.
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Also, if it wasnt clear when I wrote the question earlier, we NEVER received a dime for any of the repairs made, and we were only supposed to live in the trailer RENT free until we moved into the home. The reason for this was it is 2 adults, 2 opposite sex children(6 and 8) 2 dogs, and 4 cats in a TINY 2 bedroom trailer. It was only supposed to be temporary, from the e-mails, it shouldnt have been more then 4weeks in the trailer. So we never received anything fro the landlord, but we laid all new flooring(carpet and vinyl through out the entire trailer). We spent one week mowing the 3 ft tall grass, and repairing our lawn mower 3 times from the damage, we took down a 20 ft antenna attached to the home as asked by the landlord, and we built a fence that he requested, and even purchased the materials ourselves. We spent 2 weeks alone cleaning up the property(grass, cutting trees, cleaning trass, etc.)