We left early too. However, we followed the contract for early termination to a T. We gave them 60 days notice of the early move out. We had some concessions when we signed our lease and they said we'd have to pay back those concessions due to early termination and the contract stated this as well. So, they gave us a round figure of what we may have to owe. However, it wasn't an actual figure. They had to do a final walk through to make sure there wasn't any damage to the place before they gave us that. We provided them with our forwarding address and to this day we haven't even received any communication from them by mail or even a phone call. We assumed they just forgot about it.
So, basically, we don't even know how much we owe them besides that guesstimate they showed us before we left.
With that being said, can they do such a thing? Don't they need to actually present a bill or at least verbally request payment before they can send you off to collections? Does anyone know if I can fight this to get the inquiry removed and possibly anything they put on my credit if they do put a collection on there?
If this is for the apartment, we don't have a problem paying anything as long as we know how much we have to pay and get an itemized breakdown of what we actually owe. We have yet to receive such a thing...
