Posted on 05/01/2009 2:11:16 AM PDT by dbehsman
COVINA - When she died on Christmas Eve with eight members of her family, Alice Ortiz unwittingly broke the lease she held on an apartment in Upland. Now the landlord, Broadstone Foothill Apartment Homes, wants its money, $2,821.23 in all, according to documents obtained Wednesday.
A Jan. 29, itemized invoice to Ortiz's survivors claims the dead woman's estate owes $1,655 to the apartment complex on North Central Avenue for "insufficient notice to vacate."
The company also billed Ortiz for 12 days' rent and other fees accrued in January, weeks after she died.
"This is just low," said attorney Scott Nord, who represents surviving victims of the Christmas Eve Massacre and their family members.
(Excerpt) Read more at pasadenastarnews.com ...
The victim’s estate should sue the landlord and his insurance instead of the other way around.
This is the second of these stories I’ve seen in the past month..is this normal? ..ie do most complexes do this..although heartless sounding...it would seem to me they are due rent up to death..just sounds wrong to be able to charge a fee for breaking a lease early..any estate lawyers out there??
This seems to me to be just the outcome of a sort of depersonalized bureaucracy in a real estate company. Some poor slob sees that a lease was terminated in mid course and without notice and mindlessly sends out the executor. No malice. No good will either. ... Just mindlessness, and not in the Zen sense.
I believe in karma..I believe that those who do bad will one day pay in a terrible and horrible way..
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