Is It legally Right To Do This?  

I'm not on section 8.. I'm just wondering if she's trying to rip us off. And I usually ignore the letters she sends, but this time she left a message insisting that we pay her now ,infact right now I'm looking at 2 receipts for the past 2 months of rent we have paid her.. Thanks for comment! :)

Oh by the way, I think your Koolaid bags are awesome & very unique! What a very creative way to recycle.

Hi pierone, I usually do ignore her letters and so does my husband. But this time she wrote a note insisting that we pay her for back rent. What makes me mad about this is when she writes these types of notes I always call her and ask her about the notice she sends out and often she claims " Oh I didn't send that, ignore it, somebody in my office sent it by mistake" but if it was a mistake why did she go out of her way to include a personal note to me and my husband about all of the suppose rent we owe her (and she signs her name to it..?)I can understand if this happens once or twice a year by mistake but this has been a almost monthly on and off ordeal for about a year now.

Ignore the letter? THats the stupidest thing ive ever heard of. Why would you ignore it? She is obviously harassing them. Time for a lawyer.

I'm with you pierone! It seems like the whole world has gone mad!!! I would toss the unopened envelopes in the trash and not think a thought more about it! Why get all worked up over nothing?

But if I wanted to play the game with her I would send the unopened letters back to her with 'no such person at this address' scrawled on the outside of the envelope, hehehehe. Or I would send the amount she was demanding back in monopoly money!

Maybe someone else is sending you the notices. She may not even realize that the note was to you. She may have just overlooked who the notice was too and took the word of someone else that the money is owed to her. They may be ripping you both off and neither of you even realizes it. You may hand her the check for the rent and she may hand you the receipt but then it may get passed on to someone else to take care of. This person may be taking the rent and telling her that you didn't pay. who knows ??????

I agree and I would like to add that every city has an organization that specializes in tenants rights I would suggest at you contact them about what to do. you can usually find a listing in the phonebook. Keep copies of the notices just in case.

My God, you americans are really impossible people!
She ask if is legal, you suggest an attorney.
Why you aren't able to do the easier thing?
Why you need to waste your time, and became nervous for nothing?
She already paid. This is a fact.
The land lady have some problems (at least memory problems), this is another fact.
Just ignoring the letters and pay at the right time (as they usually do) the rent is enough.
Your solution means lot of work, efforts, to get what? just pay the rent.
And the suggestion of move! please!
My solution means 3 seconds to put the letter in the trash can, and pay the rent. And make your life happier ;)

Damn right get a lawyer.

Pierone obviously its not that simple to her! It actually is not legal that is why it was suggested that she contact a lawyer it may not be a biggie to you but this woman feels like she may be in jeopardy of losing her home. It is quite possible that it is more than just a lose of memory somewhere along the line a red flag is going up in the landlady's office in regards to this woman's payments.

pierone....there's nothing wrong with the idea of her getting a lawyer, if anything for "protection"----what if the landlady sends copies of these letters to a housing authority, and next "letter" she gets is for a court case for eviction...with a lawyer she would have protection and ward off any eviction issues that may ensue due to the landlord despite the fact that she DID pay the rent. A housing/eviction would just see the landlord's letters that indicating she didn't pay even though she did and take that at face value---then she WOULD have to hire a lawyer

The thing is, this isn't the first or second time she has tried to pull this. Each time she has claim we owe her months of back pay of rent we always have to go to her office to show her our receipts that we did pay and then once we show her proof that we paid she say's " Oh, great! I'm sorry " She does not know how to manage her business.Her paper bookkeeping records never match her computer book keeping records .. I'll check into a free lawyer as well. I think I can get some free legal aid threw my Indian tribe.. I have to double check.

What if she simply ignore the lady letters? If the lady will file her in a court, she have all the receipts to show, and then she will get a lawyer and ask for some remboursment from the lady due of the waste of time the lady procured to her.

It never hurts to get legal advise which doesn't cost much or anything, just to make sure that she knows what to do if there is a problem. Best to be proactive and safe than sorry.

Namaste-Anora

I can't tell you how many times we have been threw this with our landlord. Same song and dance. She claims we our her all this money, we run down to her office to show her proof that we don't owe her all this money. It happens every 3-6 months for the past 2 years. I'm so tired of it that I'm fixing to chew her head off or just move ( which is something we have been talking about all day)You are right about one thing. She does own and manage a lot of rental property and she even once sent us a invoice saying we yet again owed her thousands and come to find out that this invoice wasn't meant for us, but our neighbor in the house next door!

Maybe get some form of anti harassment order against her. Do something quick before you go mad and kill her !!!

OMG Mike, you comment made me laugh so hard! haha..

This is getting on my last nerve. I'm so tried of the false claims she's making. I just want to move at this point.She is a scattered brain!

That's exactly what we are going to do. My best friend also suggest we should go to a office supply store and buy a book of blank receipts and have her sign the receipt when we pay and have her write " paid in full" on our copy of the receipt then give her a copy of our receipt and we keep the original.

Hello friend,I wished I did have the other letters she sent me last year but my husband got mad when he saw them and tore them up and tossed them in the trash! I told him he should of gave them to me to keep, just in case, but he said " Why, we have proof we paid, she can't do anything as long as we have proof"..But I do have the new letter she sent and I'm keeping it.

Hi Tamara,
That's how I feel totally! This is nothing but plain old harassment!And we have done nothing wrong! We make sure our rent is paid in full each month .Since she can't manage her business right doesn't mean she has the right to harass us because people in her office are not keeping the books correctly.