Landlord/Tenant disputes

By Hollie

I have been renting a house with two responsible and clean roomates for a year. Our landlord never bothered to send our lease back with her signature even though we frequently asked. She never bothered to do a LOT of things since she lives across the country and does not appear to care about the property. We facilitated all repairs/lawn care/insurance &warranty issues/maintenance on our own. When lease end was approaching we notified her months ago that we would like to just take one extra month and then move out. This is when her claws came out. Issues that she had ignored for months became urgently important, she began blaming us for things that we had nothing to do with, denying her previous lack of assistance, and in our communications has been hostile, threatening, and dishonest about everything. We feel we a in a very vulnerable position and that she plans on unfairly abusing our security deposit. We know there should be virtually nothing to charge us for but we cannot trust her and, across the country having never met her, she could disappear from us very easily.

In one week our last months rent is due. Is there ANYTHING we can do to protect ourselves and avoid future legal issues???? Please help!!!

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