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  1. #1
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    Default Defrauding An Innkeeper in Florida

    I am a little confused at how this happened but I need some help on how to deal with it.

    Last year I got out of prison, started my life over and lived with my adult daughter until I could get money to move from there. The best I could do with my background was an old motel that had been converted into weekly efficiency apartments. That was in August 2006. I worked real hard and in November 2006, had my daughter returned to me from foster care. The efficiency was small for us, but I did not have the money to move into a bigger place yet. Due to some health problems, I got behind in my weekly rent payment but the owner and the manager worked with me and told me that I could clean rooms to deduct from the balance (which at that time was $450) and also make payments of $20 weekly. In March, we were able to rent a home and I went to the manager and told him of this and asked if he would give me a good reference even though I was behind on rent. He said yes. That weekend, around 5pm, I started moving stuff into the old place.

    Here is where is gets complicated. The manager wanted to dated me the whole time I lived there, however, I had a boyfriend. The manager kept hassling me and my boyfriend said something to him a could of times when he was at my place. On March 14th I gave the manager a money order for $200 and he did not give me a reciept. I continued to ask him for the receipt on a daily basis, I asked the maintenance man if he could either get the receipt for me or talk to the manager to get it. I never got a receipt.

    Two weeks after moving, the manager emailed my daughter and stated that I had to pay the balance in full and it was now $850 and the owner was going to press charged. I tried talking to the owner directly and she agreed to the $20 weekly payments. I continued to get $20 money orders and send them to the place certified so I would have record and I also repeatedly asked about the missing posting of my $200 payment.

    I called the state attorneys office and the police department and they told me just to keep making payments. Then I got a letter from the place and in it, all of my money orders were returned, and I received a demand for payment of a substantial amount (no actual amount was stated however). I was also told that I would be prosecuted if I did not do this.

    The apts do not collect sales tax and are required to file civil eviction procedures to remove a tenant from living there. There are several people who did not pay their rent on time and the balance was larger than what I owed, in fact one amount still owed is almost $2000, however, no one else has ever been prosecuted. The manager has sent harassing emails to my daughter, he was upset because I would not date him and I had several witnesses to this fact. I recently found out from the owner that when I moved out, the manager originally told the owners that I snuck out in the middle of the night, and did not tell anyone where I was moving to and I had my cell phone shut off. I have proof of this as well.

    I am on probation and doing really good at living a good life now. However, last week, an arrest warrant came out for me for defrauding an innkeeper, in excess of $300, which makes it a felony, the balance that is listed has now jumped to $1000, I am out on bond but this has violated my probation and it will be any day that I will have to return to jail. I also lost my job due to not being able to bond out the first day.

    I appreciated any help.

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    Default Re: Defrauding An Innkeeper in Florida

    You say in your other thread that you have a lawyer working on this, which is a good move. Your envelope full of returned money orders should, at least in theory, serve as evidence of your intent to pay (even if late). In the event that the landlord denies you ever sent them, you should be able to use the receipt numbers from the money orders to establish when you purchased them, so as to establish periodic payments.

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