Re: Old Landlord is posting illegal information

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What do you mean, "assuming you can jump through enough hoops to get
that far in the court system." The poster can simply file a pro se
suit in Federal Court and let the judge decide if the landlord has
violated the act. I don't see any hoops needed to jump through here.

On 6/22/06, Some Young Guy wrote:
> You are correct about the "up to" $1000, however, current caselaw
> on the subject appears that courts typically award $1000 on a
> regular basis (especially if it proven that the landlord was
> INTENTIONALLY supplying inaccurate information to harm the OP).
> Mitigation would be appropriate for any actual damages beyond the
> statutory damages, however this would NOT eliminate the OP's
> ability to successfully pursue the statutory damages.
>
>
> On 6/22/06, Curmudgeon wrote:
>> The statutory damages are "up to" $1000 at the court's
>> discretion plus any actual damages--assuming you can jump
>> through enough hoops to get that far in the court system. But
>> first, the OP needs to attempt to mitigate her damages by
>> disputing the information with the 3 major credit reporting
>> agencies and with the association that is supplying the
>> information. Odds are, neither the agencies nor the association
>> will be able to verify the information and it will be deleted.
>> Poof--there go the damages.
>>
>> On 6/22/06, Some Young Guy wrote:
>>> Actually that is not correct. If your landlord intentionally
>>> put false information on your credit report he/she would be
>>> guilty of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act and would be
>>> liable for $1000 of statutory damages (or actual damages if
>>> this was greater). I believe this would be a good case for
>>> Federal Court.
>>>
>>> On 6/21/06, Curmudgeon wrote:
>>>> You've been evicted, filed bankruptcy, and don't know the
>>>> English language. How much has your character
>>>> been "deformed" by this?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, the landlord shouldn't be listing incorrect
>>>> information, but the monetary value of your case is worth
>>>> less than the cost of the electricity I used to post this.
>>>>
>>>> On 6/21/06, Lashern wrote:
>>>>> About three years ago, we rented a basement apartment. In
>>>>> this my husband lost his job and we became behind in the
>>>>> rent and then went to eviction court to settle the debt.
>>>>> We advised the judge of the amount that we owed and a
>>>>> judgment was entered. Well, two weeks after that the
>>>>> landlord try to take us to court again for the same amount
>>>>> at a different court. We proved that we had already went
>>>>> to court for the same matter and that he was falsly
>>>>> accusing us of damaging the apartment, We had won that
>>>>> case. I filed Bankruptcy last year and had the judgment
>>>>> discharged. I recently receieved my credit report and
>>>>> noticed that the landlord is tapping on to my credit
>>>>> report by putting the case that we won on as a judgment as
>>>>> well as putting false debt amounts on my credit report
>>>>> through a company by the name of National Ass. of
>>>>> Independent Landlords. Can i take him to court for
>>>>> deformation of character for putting false information
>>>>> illegally on my credit report?