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Hi, i am new to this forum but me and my Mexican girlfriend are currently having major problems with my landlady. Apologies for the essay but here goes..
My girlfriend is the shy type and not really the type to speak up for herself, the landlady has been using intimidating / bullying tactics against her since we moved in to try and get extra payments etc, i don't speak any Spanish so i have not been in a position to argue with her.
Last Saturday she came into our property and started screaming at my girlfriend and prodding her in the chest. I watched this happen for a couple of minutes until I felt enough was enough and then removed the screaming woman from our apartment.. firmly closing the door once she was out.
She proceeded to scream louder, and bang, kick and rattle our door until my girlfriend returned outside to confront her. An argument developed which ended with me telling her in broken Spanish that we would be leaving in 4 weeks.
My girlfriend received a phone call from her parents on Saturday (as their name and phone number is on the lease) to say the landlady had been on the phone to them saying that our apartment stunk of marijuana and that i was a junky, and for this reason she was kicking us out. This is simply not true and is nothing but an excuse to try and keep my deposit. It is also causing me serious problems as i previously had a good relationship with the family.
We informed the landlady (and my girlfriends parents) that i would be arranging for a drug test and pursuing legal action, ( i will be taking the drug test to pacify the family, but am not sure where i stand on the legal side of things ) after this the drug use allegations stopped completely.
I came home from work on Monday to find someone had (unsuccessfully) tried to gain entry to our apartment and the lock securing the front door was damaged beyond repair. Our apartment is not the most secure and i am sure that anyone with experience in these matters would have had no trouble gaining access. In fact far from gaining access she had managed to damage the lock in such a way not even i could get in with the keys! (it seems plainly obvious who is responsible). The police were phoned and we made sure we had a record of their attendance, during the time the police were here the landlady looked plainly terrified.
I return home again on wednesday to find my girlfriend in tears telling me that yet again the landlady has phoned her parents to say that she will not return the deposit.. that i am abusive to their daughter, always shouting at her, smashing things etc etc. THIS IS ANOTHER FALSE ALLEGATION.
This woman knows exactly what she is doing with these phone calls, she is interfering with my personal life with malicious lies and is causing both me and my g/f untold aggravation from the family. We have both worked extremely hard to get here and get the blessing of the family and neither of us need this in any way.
The contract states that if we leave before 12months we have to pay the outstanding rent up until the end of the year. These are obvious attempts to try and get us to leave whilst extorting us for a large amount of money which neither of us can afford.
I want to pursue legal action but really don't know where to start, if there is anyone here with legal experience or someone who has been through similar problems please please share.
My girlfriend is the shy type and not really the type to speak up for herself, the landlady has been using intimidating / bullying tactics against her since we moved in to try and get extra payments etc, i don't speak any Spanish so i have not been in a position to argue with her.
Last Saturday she came into our property and started screaming at my girlfriend and prodding her in the chest. I watched this happen for a couple of minutes until I felt enough was enough and then removed the screaming woman from our apartment.. firmly closing the door once she was out.
She proceeded to scream louder, and bang, kick and rattle our door until my girlfriend returned outside to confront her. An argument developed which ended with me telling her in broken Spanish that we would be leaving in 4 weeks.
My girlfriend received a phone call from her parents on Saturday (as their name and phone number is on the lease) to say the landlady had been on the phone to them saying that our apartment stunk of marijuana and that i was a junky, and for this reason she was kicking us out. This is simply not true and is nothing but an excuse to try and keep my deposit. It is also causing me serious problems as i previously had a good relationship with the family.
We informed the landlady (and my girlfriends parents) that i would be arranging for a drug test and pursuing legal action, ( i will be taking the drug test to pacify the family, but am not sure where i stand on the legal side of things ) after this the drug use allegations stopped completely.
I came home from work on Monday to find someone had (unsuccessfully) tried to gain entry to our apartment and the lock securing the front door was damaged beyond repair. Our apartment is not the most secure and i am sure that anyone with experience in these matters would have had no trouble gaining access. In fact far from gaining access she had managed to damage the lock in such a way not even i could get in with the keys! (it seems plainly obvious who is responsible). The police were phoned and we made sure we had a record of their attendance, during the time the police were here the landlady looked plainly terrified.
I return home again on wednesday to find my girlfriend in tears telling me that yet again the landlady has phoned her parents to say that she will not return the deposit.. that i am abusive to their daughter, always shouting at her, smashing things etc etc. THIS IS ANOTHER FALSE ALLEGATION.
This woman knows exactly what she is doing with these phone calls, she is interfering with my personal life with malicious lies and is causing both me and my g/f untold aggravation from the family. We have both worked extremely hard to get here and get the blessing of the family and neither of us need this in any way.
The contract states that if we leave before 12months we have to pay the outstanding rent up until the end of the year. These are obvious attempts to try and get us to leave whilst extorting us for a large amount of money which neither of us can afford.
I want to pursue legal action but really don't know where to start, if there is anyone here with legal experience or someone who has been through similar problems please please share.