Okay, let me back track to my current state of anger... we found a great place and put in a 45 day notice that we were moving.. Lo and behold, she says we can't vacate our lease till the end of May.
I sent the notice march 15th. It didn't mention anything about any kind of notice giving OR lack there in in our lease renewal.. and we had moved in originally may 15th. 2 yrs ago.
She then says, well if we want to leave early we can.. but we would still be obligated to pay till May 31st... well we talk to the new land lords and work out a deal where they will HOLD the house for us, in exchange for a slighter higher rent for 5 months, to pay for april.
Well, the old landlord advertises the house, has a boatload of showings, and then wonders why we haven't moved out in April.. I say that if we have to pay for April and May.. we are NOT moving till our lease is up...and she had hoped to have new tenants IN by May first, but does not tell us IF she has a lease signed by new tenants OR not...
She lets us out of our lease early by a month, and now we fast forward to NOW...
According to WI Statute, she the former land lord has to have our security deposit, or what is left of it to us, no later than the 21st of the month after a move out. We know we owed for fuel oil so we would not get
back ALL of our deposit.
Well she emailed, we both agree on the amount owed.. and I wait for the check.. and wait, and wait.... I texted her to let her know we hadn't gotten it, a courtesy.. after a weekend and a day or two.. Still nothing.
At the end of last week, before the memorial day weekend.. I still don't have the check. SO I text her again.. she says she will look into it after the weekend..
I say, what is there to look into, we no have no money.. no checkie check...
She then sends me an email saying she will have to check with her bank AND her attorney. WOW.. just WOW...
Well I wait till 6:30 PM on Tuesday, and still no check, no call and no email from her. I called our Dept of Consumer Protection and the local Tenant Resource center.. SHE is in violation of the statute.. yet she acts
like its our fault..
We have nothing to gain, we aren't trying to scam her out of a whole 200 dollars.. we just want what is ours.
I sent an email telling her that I have contacted the CP dept, and the resource center. And that if I don't have the check in my hand by EOB on Saturday, I will be filing a complaint, and taking her to small claims court.
We would get back the amount due plus an equal amount AND our filing fee. She would be out nearly 500 dollars, and we don't have to prove a thing.. its all on her.. she is in serious trouble.
We got an email saying HOW sorry she is...that she sent it to the wrong address..
And now as of yesterday
So I get an email a bit later in the evening on Tuesday.. She is going to send out the check, yesterday to our new address, via USPS Express mail. Well I ask if she checked the little box and signed so that it waived the signature required. It took a few emails to confirm that SHE had (supposedly) checked the little box and signed..
So here I am today, its early evening.. I called the post office, and checked with the main office.. NOTHING .. ZIP, ZERO, NADA.
I am sooo mad, I just want this to go away, but I want my whole 200 dollars..grrrrrrr
