[lbo-talk] contract/lease law

[Miike Quenling Ellis]

--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>If the contractual language is clear,
> and there was no fraud involved in inducing a party to
> enter the contract, that's the end of the story. The
> courts will enforce the contract as written, and
> that's the end of it. The landlord in the hypothetical
> is entitled to charge the cat-owning ex-tenant of "for
> defleaing, deodorizing, and shampooing." The lease
> does not require him to do something that might be
> cheaper even if he did it. The charges, in the
> contract law of most states, must be "reasonable."

that's about what i figured but would charging to clean a carpet that was
replaced be considered 'reasonable' by a judge or whomever, other than the
landlord? especially since he charged me unreasonable amounts for alot of
other things as well (186.99 for a broken window, just the glass)

~M.E.

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