We started renting this house July1,2007 and have a 1 year lease. We set up a verbal aggreement with our land lady to have things fixed around the house (new carpet, central ac/heat,) and she put it in the lease to have pest control etc. About a month into us renting, I called her to go over the agrreement on the carpet and a/c, and my land lady went back on what we agreed to and said she can’t afford to do any of it. But that was after I had to convince her that she did rent the house already and to us. She is an elderly lady in her 60′s maybe.Anyway, in Spetember we payed her ent and 2 weeks later she came knocking on the door wanting rent (after we already paid her) and every month to date after that she has asked for rent before and after we pay it. She comes by our house several times a month, harasses my brother who live next door, harassed my 15 year old niece about the rent we already paid and asking when are we getting out of her house. She has told us to move or pay rent…..
She has used her key to come in our house and snoop while we are gone, peaked through the windows, etc. We are looking for a place to move to now. My things is, she is threatening to have us evicted through the courts. We are up to date on our rent, but to our own stupidity we didn’t bother getting reciepts cause we are stupid and after she spazzed out on us, we started asking and she would say no and walk away. I know dumb, lesson learned. Friends of my brothers lived here before us and said she was a great land lady, so we figured no need. Now we find out, that is the reason why they left too and lied to us, so we can move in and keep her from going after them. So with no reciepts to show we paid rent and her having nothing to prover her crap story that we didn’t what can we do? I have some proof that she has harassed us non stop as well as our family/neighbors. Do we have a good fight or should we just move before she lies and tries to evict us by the court? In advice helps please.
We paid by cash and money orders. I don’t have a checking account. But her invading our privacy, harassing us and neighbors is against the law. She violated the privacy act when talking to our neighbors and an underage child about us. I seriously think she has problems with her memory.