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What are my Rights Regarding Charges and Entry of Premises that Are Not Stated in Lease Agreement
Apartment Management said they no longer have a key to my apartment and want me to bring my key in to copy or they will change the lock and charge me $25. I say my security has been breached since they lost the key and they should do it for free. What's my right? Can maintenance enter my apartment without notice to me if empty apartment upstairs has a water leak and they w...
11/20/2007 | Category: Contracts » Lease Agreem... | State: Texas | #12591Can an Employer Charge an Employee for past Billing Errors?
I work as a subcontractor for a jewelry designer. My boss noticed some pricing errors I had made on production pieces listed on my most current invoice. She corrected them, which is fine as I had not yet been paid, then she went back into already paid invoices and listed the money that I now owe them for mistakes I listed in production prices. Some errors were caused by hard-to...
06/16/2011 | Category: Contracts » Mistake | State: Kansas | #25041Do I Have to Pay More Money if the Insurance Company Made a Mistaken Payment Error?
I am looking for a law term used when the mistake of one party (insurance company) causes another party, who has acted in good faith the decision, a financial burden. Scenario - The insurance co paid $8000.00 on a $13000.00 hospital bill. The hospital agreed to accept what the ins. co. paid. The payment was forwarded to the hospital. Nine months later the ins co sends noti...
10/03/2010 | Category: Contracts » Mistake | State: California | #23319Am I Liable for the Difference if the Seller Sold Me Something for the Wrong Price?
I bought a clown fish for $50 from a pet store. This particular clown fish did not have a price assigned to. I asked to buy it assuming it was $20 like the others in a separate tank. The price came up to be $50 and I paid it because it did have a unique design to it. About five hours later, the pet store calls and tells me that I bought a designer clown fish and that the price ...
08/09/2010 | Category: Contracts » Mistake | State: Texas | #22868Can I Void A Lease for a Typographical Error?
My daughter signed a lease for an apartment. The landlord indicated that he would clean the apartment but hasn't. The lease is misdated to end on August 31, 2009 instead of 2010. Is she bound by this lease?
08/28/2009 | Category: Contracts » Mistake | State: Missouri | #18296Can I get compensated from a verbal agreement?
I worked for a man as his maintenance man for 5 years we had a verbal agreement it would be deducted from the property I have cared for and reside in for the last five years. Now remarried his wife is trying to sell the house out from under me a lawyer sent me a letter to vacate the house. I have done $10,000 dollars of work on this property, always being on call for him and hi...
04/15/2011 | Category: Contracts » Oral | State: Texas | #24649Can I Enforce an Oral Promise of a Deceased Person in Florida?
Owner of property dies caretaker is promised a portion of property verbally for paying taxes what rights does the caretaker have because it was a verbal contract.
01/08/2011 | Category: Contracts » Oral | State: Florida | #23974How can I recoup funds from improvments made on my rental since it has been sold?
I'm a 20 year tenant on a month-to-month rental agreement. In a verbal agreement the owner said 10% of rent would credit as downpayment to the day he decided to sell to me. I made $50,000 in improvement thinking I would own the place eventually. He died, someone else out bid me and the property sold. I want to ask for the 10% of the rent money paid since the verbal agreement. A...
05/04/2009 | Category: Contracts » Oral | State: California | #16563Am I entitled to a lien on the property even though the contract was oral?
I entered into a oral agreement with my 8 year live in relationship girlfriend when we resided in Texas to purchase her relatives home to remodel and sell for profit for both of us. Since then she has backed out of the sell deal and is keeping the home for herself, originating from a loan that she acquired through fraudulent means (8 times reporting of her income) attempting ...
04/29/2009 | Category: Contracts » Oral | State: Texas | #16429If I did not sign the lease am I still responsible for payment of the lease?
If we agreed on the verbage or contents of a 9 month home lease agreement and didn't actually sign the lease, are we responsible to pay rent for the duration of that lease. Also, we never moved into the home in question.
04/13/2009 | Category: Contracts » Oral | State: Wisconsin | #15977