房東房客問題，請大家幫忙

來源: Novice 於 2022-11-07 06:35:51 [檔案] [舊帖] [給我悄悄話] 本文已被閱讀：次 (1706 bytes)

房客去年搬走，造成一些damage。我們扣了她一些deposit, about $900, half of the deposit. 有一個房間被塗得亂七八糟，完全需要重新paint, other rooms also a lot of holes to patch. She only lived for two years. She also had a dog without our approval. The real hard wood floor in one place of living room翹起來，可能caused by the dog's pee. The laminate floor in her daughter's room was also bumped up probably due to the water damage. We send her the invoices and pictures before and after. Then after 5 month, she asked a lawyer sending us a letter to request us to return back her $1500 of deposit. It seems that she did not tell her lawyer that we already returned $900 more deposit to her and herself chose not to cash out. We did not response the lawyer's request. Two days ago, we searched our trial time for a traffic violation and accidently found out that the lawyer filed a small claim to use about three months ago which was one year after the tenant moved out. We did not received any paper. Then we found the lawyer filed with a wrong address, the wrong house number which caused us not receiving any paper. Our question is whether we need to go to court to correct the address, or we just ignore the claim since we have not received any paper/document. Any bad consequence if we ignore the claim since we never received any paper? Will the judge make a decision without confirmation that we received the information of the claim? 請大家幫忙集思廣益。謝謝。