Hello,
My husband and I moved out of our rented apartment end of December 2012. We just found out 3 years later that the landlord had filed a petition in landlord-tenant court for non payment. They claim we did not pay November and December 2012 rent and had served us with a rent demand by both registered mail and in person delivery. However, the landlord did not take any further action because they received the rent money in January 2013.
The question is what should we do? Should we file for a discontinuance with prejudice? Is there anyway to make the petition in court go away? What action can we take to clear our name?
We have always paid our rent on time and actually own two apartments now (this petition never showed up in any of those background searches). We have no idea how the payments were missed those two months and have no record of being served either personally or by registered mail. Plus since we are finding out about this 3 years later we have no papers or recollection of what happened, all we know is that we got our security deposit back in December 2012 and they received the rent payment January 2013. Please help! Any information would be greatly appreciated!!