My question involves an eviction in the state of: colorado
In my current situation I am pregnant and living at a house with four other males (including the childs father). We have lived in the place for 8 months and I only lived ther for 7 of the 8 months. Our agreement with our landlord was verbal and it was through our landlord and my childs father. Our "landlord" lives with us in the same house and right next door to our room. We rented out a room with a small closet and a bathroom from this guy but our rent was only through the guy verbaly and we had to pay rent in cash because he "did not want a paper trail". We did inform the landlord in our agreement verbaly and with reliable witnesses that we would have to "work for our rent" sometimes if we were not able to pay our rent in full or on time and he agreed with us that it would be ok. ( I would clean and the childs father would do construction work)
We started having problems with the house and people when I found out I was pregnant and I came back from the month of seperation that I had from the childs father.
The father and I were really the only ones that ate and cooked meals regularly at the house up until about the last few months and we would get in trouble for not cleaning up our mess when it was clean but dishes used by the other roommates were left in the sink. Myself personally I have cleaned up that mess from then and then our cooking more times than I could count. And recently (what caused our landlord to flip) we left our dishes in the sink for a morning when we were running very late for work and the dishwasher was full with dirty dishes. The landlord confronted us as we were finishing our breakfast and trying to get out the door and started getting mad at us for all of the dirty dishes left in the sink from "us" when all of our dishes were upstairs in our room for this exact reason and the were from our roommates from throughout the week and the night before. (We were living off of breakfast bowls of cereal or oatmeal in the morning and pizza from work at night). The landlord started falsely acusing my boyfriend and I of the dirty dishes and would not leave us alone as we were walking out of the door. My boyfriend engaged in the arguement by only repeating that we did not leave those dishes and we always cleaned our dishes up the day we use them. Our landlord then told us we have three days to pay rent or get out verbaly. We left for the day and stayed the night at my mother's house.
List of accusationsall aquired verbaly never in writing)
1. never did our dishes- we did them everytime we used any of them and even loaded and unloaded the dishwasher when necessary
2. scratched up the "new" hardwood floor both up and downstairs from moving furniture around (couches)- we only sat in two chairs that we never moved unless we had to and used a small table that we rarely moved
3. I personally never cleaned anything - i scrubbed the inside and outside of the washing machine and dryer to eliminate the dirt and dust that would gather on our clothes weekly, I hand mopped the upstairs floor every two weeks and finished with pitch black water, I cleaned the kitchen every two weeks and the refridgerators, all while i was first going to school and then became pregnant and working.
4. "gouged" the floor in the room - it was supposedly from my boyfriend moving furniture around the hardwood floor when the "gouge" could be and was cleaned up with a wet rag and elbow greese.
5. broken dj/sound equiptment - we both knew how to use the equipment properly after being told how to use it when it was first hooked up but we did not have anything to plug into the system to stream music through.
6. gravel in the washing machiene - supposedly from my boyfriends work clothes recently when he had been working with dry wall for the past month and a half and never was around gravel (one roommate works out in the oil fields) and the washer had ruined over $500 worth of our clothes combined and even after it was brought to our landlords attention multiple times by us nothing was ever done to fix it.
7. rent was never paid on time - when we first moved in we agreed to pay at the end of every month due to us not being able to have the money at the begining of every month due to the distrbution of our pay checks.
8. anything he could find wrong with his house as he was yelling at us
List of our financial losses:
1. about or over $500 worth of clothes ruined from the washing machiene
2. about 30 or more hours of labor not paid for (my boyfriend painted a house and only received $60 for more than 10 hours of working on the house and babysitting a child at the same time)
The day we went back to the house so my boyfriend could eat something for dinner and i could finish packing up our room. Our land lord came to the room and got mad at me for posting one comment on face book that said " well good job Tony you're getting your way because you refused to do anything in writing". I never mention his last name or a monitary ammount and he told me that he is going to sue me for litigation or slander or something like that. When he could have not seen the post in any way due to him and the other roommates being blocked from my facebook and everything else plublic networking that i have. He keept on hurrassing my boyfriend and I while we were trying to leave the house because he would not leave me alone or my boyfriend alone after being asked multiple times to step out of our room and leave us alone. As we were going downstairs to leave he continued to follow us and hurrass us. When we were outside and I was trying to talk to a Nurse Family Partnership member to set up an appointment date that wouldnt be so hectic he continued to hurrass us to the point of invading our faces and not allowing me to talk to the member to let them know that i will reschedule. The landlord tried to lean on my mothers car (which we drove for transportation for the day) and once asked to get off he kicked the tire and told us to "never park the piece of shit on his property again". Then he proceeded in advancing towards me and kept calling me a dead beat whore who needs to lay off the pot and meth, when i would never touch an illegal substance and clearly am not using any illegal substance due to my pregnancy. Then he proceed to come after me more and tell me that he was going to come after me for the rent that is owed and the damage that was done to the property (when there was none) and when the agreement was verbally between my boyfriend and the landlord. I was really up set and at the point of hyperventalation when I was finally able to get in the vehicle and leave with the land lord still advancing while i was getting in the vehicle.
Later after partially calming down I went back with my mother (parole officer) to grab as much out of the room as we could. As soon as I opened the front door my landlord came up to us and started to hurrass us again. This time I didnt say anything or look at him. Then he turned and started to hurrass my mother. She asked him to leave us alone multiple times and when she was getting fed up with it, he started to hurrass me again and call me an addicted whore by bringing up something in my past that wasnt any of his business and was pretty offensive. He then proceeded to tell me that he was going to come after me for everything financially he has lost from me and my boyfriend moving out and from living there "damaging" everything in our path. Then my mother tried to close the door to our room and lock it but he would not get out of the door way after being asked 5 or 6 times untill the door was being closed in his face and still being asked to leave us alone. When my mother started to make trips down the stairs with things he constantly followed her hurrassing her while she was out of the room. He only stopped and answered his phone when she told him to act his age. In hearing his conversation on the phone I found out that he had been trying to rent out our room for almost 3 weeks without our knowledge.
What I am really wondering is:
1. did I do anything wrong that could get me in trouble legally?
2. if he comes at me for something would it get "laughed out of court"?
3. if it follows through in court could i counter it with anything?
4. do i have legal gorunds to file for hurrassment against him?
5. do i have legal grounds to file anything else against him?
6. am i legally liable to pay for everything that he is supposedly going to come at me for?
7. did he "evict" us legally?
8. was he legally allowed in the room after being told to get out and/or leave us alone?

