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Complaint Review: Pinnacle Apartments - Ft. Myers Florida
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Pinnacle Apartments
Pinnacle Drive Ft. Myers, 33907 Florida, U.S.A.
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Pinnacle Apartments Ripoff Violation OF Privacy & Disclosure of Personal Financial Information Ft. Myers Florida
I need Help!! I am not sure what I can do and was hoping for some advice. I want to Sue Pinnacle for A violation of my privacy and Disclosure of my Personal Checking Account INfo. Someone Please advised on what to do...
This is what happened to me with these People. I pay my rent every month and My utilities are billed seperatly. I pay all my bills to the Utilities directly and have lived in Pinnacle Apts almost a year. I paid my November Rent to my Landlord on Time and paid by Personal Check. My water bill has never been late and last month I forgot to pay it . I paid my Nov rent on Nov. 5th the usual time every month and today on Nov.22 I went out to work and came home to MY RENT CHECK ALONG WITH A LETTER hanging on my door in plain view for everyone to see..
The letter stated that they could not accept the Rent money from me because I did not pay my 45.00 Water bill last month . She had the check stapled on the front of the letter (MIND YOU) and the letter went on to say that I need to pay them the amount of the check that I wrote and the 45.00 water bill by 9:00 AM in the morning tommorow or I will have 3 days to vacate.
I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF SUCH A THING IN MY LIFE>>> I actually mailed my water bill off this morning in the mail before I came home from work. What Can I do about this. I am so Angry . All of my close neighbors have probably seen my check hanging on the door and anyone could have copied my account # which I believe is against the law for them to post on my door for the whole world to see and second of all the 45.00 water bill is their buisness HOW? I have read over my lease to see why they would even be billing me for this in the 1st place and the lease reads that In the event that I do not pay my water bill then I will be given NO LESS than 75 days notice from the leasing company that I rent my apartment from a formal warning that I need to pay the water or move.
If anyone knows anything that I can do about this Please advise. I want to do Something ANYTHING ? I want to make sure that nothing like this happens to anyone else. Also, I don't know what to do if someone did write my personal checking info down to use later on down the road for purchases on the computer or to try and withdrawl off of my account or anything. Should I close my account ... (Well on that issue I will check with my bank for advise. Is there anyway I can sue them for this and what would be the steps to take this action>> Angry and Confused.
Sylvia
Ft. Myers, Florida
U.S.A.
This is what happened to me with these People. I pay my rent every month and My utilities are billed seperatly. I pay all my bills to the Utilities directly and have lived in Pinnacle Apts almost a year. I paid my November Rent to my Landlord on Time and paid by Personal Check. My water bill has never been late and last month I forgot to pay it . I paid my Nov rent on Nov. 5th the usual time every month and today on Nov.22 I went out to work and came home to MY RENT CHECK ALONG WITH A LETTER hanging on my door in plain view for everyone to see..
The letter stated that they could not accept the Rent money from me because I did not pay my 45.00 Water bill last month . She had the check stapled on the front of the letter (MIND YOU) and the letter went on to say that I need to pay them the amount of the check that I wrote and the 45.00 water bill by 9:00 AM in the morning tommorow or I will have 3 days to vacate.
I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF SUCH A THING IN MY LIFE>>> I actually mailed my water bill off this morning in the mail before I came home from work. What Can I do about this. I am so Angry . All of my close neighbors have probably seen my check hanging on the door and anyone could have copied my account # which I believe is against the law for them to post on my door for the whole world to see and second of all the 45.00 water bill is their buisness HOW? I have read over my lease to see why they would even be billing me for this in the 1st place and the lease reads that In the event that I do not pay my water bill then I will be given NO LESS than 75 days notice from the leasing company that I rent my apartment from a formal warning that I need to pay the water or move.
If anyone knows anything that I can do about this Please advise. I want to do Something ANYTHING ? I want to make sure that nothing like this happens to anyone else. Also, I don't know what to do if someone did write my personal checking info down to use later on down the road for purchases on the computer or to try and withdrawl off of my account or anything. Should I close my account ... (Well on that issue I will check with my bank for advise. Is there anyway I can sue them for this and what would be the steps to take this action>> Angry and Confused.
Sylvia
Ft. Myers, Florida
U.S.A.
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Tim
Valparaiso,Indiana,
U.S.A.
Do you have a case? Maybe. Do you have a worthwhile case? Maybe not.
#2Consumer Comment
Tue, November 23, 2004
While you could probably bring a lawsuit, the questions of whether you would win that lawsuit, and whether a victory would benefit you at all, are hard to answer. If these acts were committed with a malicious intent, i.e. to purposely arouse negative emotions or subject you to potential victimization via check fraud, you may be entitled to a monetary judgment. This could be mighty hard to prove, however. If what they did to you was a deviation from normal practice, or if the management should have known that this was a deviation from legally accepted procedures, you might have a good case for intentional misconduct. If, on the other hand, these acts were committed out of mere negligence (negligent failure to adhere to proper legal procedures), you would probably have to prove actual monetary loss (i.e. somebody actually used the posted info and drained your account). All that aside, I'm not sure that what they did (per the posting of your notice and check) was illegal, or that it would be considered an invasion of privacy. Posting notices on apartment doors is a fairly common practice. Also, you may not have a sufficient "expectation of privacy" in your checking account info to support this charge, as countless people are privy to this information through the normal course of business. However, posting a non-NSF check for the world to see may be sufficiently egregious to warrant punishment. What probably IS illegal, however, is giving a threat of eviction that only allows for a three-day move out period. Generally speaking, a landlord must give a period of notice equal to the duration of a billing cycle. In other words, if you pay your rent on a monthly basis, they would have to give you at least a month to move out (from the time that notice is given, not from the time that you were eligible for eviction). So then, do I think they did things wrong, and that you should be able to receive compensation? Yes. Would "the law" agree with you and I? It's doubtful, but by no means impossible. What would I do? Well, as long as no harm has been done other than to your senses of pride and privacy, I probably wouldn't seek a civil lawsuit. Don't let me dissuade you, however. I don't know enough about the laws of Florida to say conclusively that you do not have a case. Only an attorney licensed in your state can do that. I would file grievances with any appropriate bodies, such as the governmental body that governs lanlord-tenant relationships, the senior management or ownership of your complex, a tenant's association if one exists, etc. Best of luck!
