[RPPTL LandTen] Excessive late fees

[Leonard Cabral]

I argue it is an unenforceable liquidated damages clause unrelated the landlord’s damages. I think I have a brief if you are interested.
Leonard P. Cabral
Leonardcabral at lenslaw.com



From: landten-bounces at lists.flabarrpptl.org [mailto:landten-bounces at lists.flabarrpptl.org] On Behalf Of Deborah Marks
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Subject: Re: [RPPTL LandTen] Excessive late fees

Residential or commercial?

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On Aug 20, 2015, at 10:49 AM, Todd Allen <todd at lindsayallenlaw.com<mailto:todd at lindsayallenlaw.com>> wrote:
Has anyone successfully argued that a late fee is excessive and therefore unconscionable?  If you have examples I’d love to hear about them.  My client’s monthly rent is $2100 a month.  Lease states that there is a late fee of $25 per day.  He’s facing a $950.00 late fee charge for being little over a month late.  Seems excessive to me.

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