This is a copy of the certified letter I sent to my former landlord as a response to his certified letter. I did not include the graph illustrating all usage and payments. Take a person with frontal lobe issues, a photographic memory, an acerbic wit, and a bad case of obsessive compulsive issues thrown into a mental, economic, or familial threat, and I will show you a mess of words that cut like a thousand knives. But here's the fizzle, I found out he can't ask a penny from us after six months have passed since our occupancy anyway. I still love the unemotional retaliation. It's so... so... ummmmm, reptilian.
Mr. (Blankity-Blank),
In reference to the certified letter received June 18, 2008, we dispute the factuality of its content and the accuracy of the sum owed to you towards supposed unpaid garbage collection.
Mr. Shimek and myself tried to maintain a courteous nature in our interactions with you. We even took it upon ourselves to repair certain aspects of your unit, such as broken toilets and faucets. However, the stress caused to our family during the fifteen months in your rental unit proved to be too much. Water pouring down bedroom walls, drain flies coming up from a permanently water soaked basement, broken windows, monthly shut-off notices for water, and no working heat were just some of the situations which slowly eroded any pleasantries. Some of these circumstances were doubly distressing, being the new parents of infant twins. Once moving out from our month to month agreement, we decided not to speak ill of you but to maintain no further contact. After not hearing from you for over six months, I found it illogical to simply write you a check for $200-300 as you requested without any physical proof, such as an invoice (as I requested numerous times). However, I took it upon myself to trace all bank transactions and to discuss usage and fees with the Erie Water Works-- the collector of garbage payments. They suggested we take this matter to a District Justice, as I specified to you in our second telephone conversation.
In your conversation with myself, you stated, "I can use that money however I want." It is unfortunate you did not use the money gained from cashed checks (all noted with the memos either "garbage" or with the specific invoices numbers in question) to pay your long standing overdue bills.
As a courtesy to you, so you do not waste your or our time trying to collect money that is not owed to you through public means, we are giving you the information we used to figure what was owed to you during our rental of your property-- the payments due for all months are separated into quarters like the Water Works billing and the amounts of the checks you cashed specifically marked for garbage payment (which are COMPLETELY separate from checks you cashed slated for water usage or rent). We are offering no payment, as our figures show OVERPAYMENT on our part. This mirrors the overpayment we gave you towards water bills. The overpayment you accepted and made no mention until we took it upon ourselves to go down to the Erie Water Works offices to straighten out usage and billing with one of their representatives. As far as any late fees, we do not feel it is our responsibility to pay fines on an overdue bill that stood at $463.75 (close to twelve unpaid quarters of usage) owed before we even moved into your unit. You can consider this letter and its accompanying information as resolution to your self-described problem, or we will be more than happy to share this information with a District Justice at your cost and convenience.
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