Q: How can one sue an apartment complex for safety issues after being evicted?
About a year ago, I lived in a apartment complex with my sister. We did allow a friend to stay a few days to get back on her feet and get her own place to stay. The friend ends up moving across from us causing issues. We have reported her multiple times, she harassed us everyday until an altercation took place but not on the property. The friend ends up getting arrested and evicted as well. They try to say we never paid rent but our statements show otherwise. We ended up going to court concerning the eviction and the judge declared for us to leave by May 11 and also stated we did not need to pay anything, just leave. We left around that time of May 11th basically homeless. This has put a strain on me finding a new place to stay and on my credit.
A:
Your question doesn’t seem to address any specific safety issues that proximately caused any injuries to you. So what exactly would you be suing for? There’s no mention of any bodily injury or property damage of any kind.
As for paying rent, if you were able to definitively show that you paid your rent on time as agreed in your lease, you should have showed it to the judge in your eviction case and you wouldn’t have been evicted for nonpayment of rent. You even could have appealed your eviction to the county court for a de novo trial if the JP erroneously ordered an eviction when you definitively showed that you had paid your rent on time. So any ding on your credit and rental history is your own fault.
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