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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello Members. I’d appreciate your opinions on the following scenario.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Landlord files action for removal of a tenant (residential). The 3-day notice attached to the complaint is defective because it includes several charges (all of them itemized on the notice) not defined in the lease as rent. After tenant files motion to dismiss, motion to determine rent, and answers, the court holds a rent determination hearing wherein the tenant is ordered to pay a sum certain into the register. Tenant does so. Next, landlord’s attorney files a motion to amend the complaint and to amend the three day notice. Landlord does not serve the amended notice. Instead, the proposed Amended Complaint is identical to the original complaint accept: (a) it no longer alleges items not defined in the lease as rent; and <b>(b) the 3-day notice attached to it is the amended (corrected) notice. Moreover, the Amended Complaint still alleges that the 3-day notice (amended) was served on ___ date—the same date as alleged in the original complaint! </b> In other words, the landlord is alleging that the amended notice was the one originally served. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve got several problems with that. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Section 83.60(1)(a) says that the “landlord must be given the opportunity to cure a deficiency in a notice or pleading before dismissal of the action.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>QUESTIONS: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]> Does 83.60(1)(a) allow a landlord, in the middle of a lawsuit, to change the amount due in the 3-day notice and proceed to prosecute the eviction? In my case, the original notice was for double what was actually due—hence the tenant did not pay it. Now, the corrected notice is for the correct amount, which has already been paid into the registry.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>If the 3-day notice is a condition precedent to the right to bring a removal action, what are the mechanics for allowing landlord to “cure” a deficient notice before dismissal? How can the case be allowed to proceed?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]> Is the landlord permitted to falsely allege that the notice (amended notice attached to the complaint) has already been served on the date the deficient notice was served? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you for your time and opinions. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoTableGrid border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse;border:none'><tr><td width=117 valign=top style='width:87.7pt;border:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-4.1pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:-216.9pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:-4.1pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:-216.9pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
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