Legal Woes IV -or- me vs. the man 3:

Today I looked up the applicable statutes to sue the landlord. It turns out that I have a very good chance at $1030 in statutory damages. That would be fun. Unfortunately, I’ll have to file in county court where they’ll notice if I screw up procedurally and it could take longer to get a court-date. On the upside, I’ll have access to all the discovery motions I can handle, so it won’t be long until I’m sitting on all of my apartment’s records (or at least all containing complaints and the responses thereto within the last five years).

Before I can file, however, I have to send a demand letter. Today I’m sending a letter demanding that they change the lease to month-to-month in exchange for my releasing the claims. I included an addendum in the letter; unfortunately this contract didn’t contain any of the cool provisions from Contracts II (force majeure is just fun to say).

If they don’t accept the offer within the time specified, I’ll have to file suit. I’m going to put the complaint online so that you, the loyal readers can nit-pick it and find all of the mistakes I made (you did a good job at that task with the review session contracts). If all goes well, we’ll either move to Pearland before October or I’ll get to don the suit, go to court and make $1200 plus court costs.

I don’t care what Wilks said, pro se is fun.