Should You Have To Pay Rent For The Following Month If You Are Evicted Under No Fault Of Your Own In The Middle Of A Payed Month, Along With All Other Bills If You Are Only There For Six Days After Rent Is Due?

Because I do not know in where you are live I am unable to give to you any information regarding Owner/Tenant relationships in your state or country. So, I will give you the information I am aware of.

First of all, you state you have paid for a month and in the middle of the month you were evicted, through no fault of your own. Now, the owner wants you to pay for the month following the month you were evicted. I see no just reason, for which the owner has a right to collect on a month, in which you are not living in the apartment, unless of course at the time you moved in, you actually, lived in the apartment for a period of time, before you paid the first month's rental fee. If, this is the case then you would of course owe rent for that period of time, only.

Also, if you were required to pay a damage deposit at the time you rented the apartment, and at the time you were evicted your apartment had sustained no damage done by you, or anyone who may have spent time in your apartment, the owner would then be responsible for returning the damage deposit to you. In such a case the owner would owe money to you rather than you owing the owner money.

This is pretty standard and I suspect this law applies where you are living. Now, if the owner evicted you and all other tenants for just cause. For instance he/she is selling the building or is required by law to update the building or perhaps make repairs to the building and during the work needs to have the building empty. Then these would be just causes for eviction.

If, someone who visited your apartment did something in defiance of the rules of the building, then the owner would also have just cause for eviction. The reason for the eviction may be just or unjust, in which case you and all other tenants forced to move would have cause for a suit against the owner of the building, if you were in fact evicted for an unjust cause.

My recommendation is for you to ask an attorney about your situation. You can take the owner to small claims court in some cases. If, you do not have the means to seek an attorney's advice, then check the phone book for the telephone number of the Housing and Rental Agency in your town who is responbible for Owner/Rental contracts and give them a call. Or, you can check for a Legal Aid Agency in your town, which is a governmental agency and you can get advice at no cost to you.

Good luck and for now, I would not pay a month's rent, unless one of the above people tell you that you are liable.

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