Azealia Banks Battles Eviction For Allegedly Not Paying Lease
A landlord sought the eviction of Azealia Banks from her house in Palmetto Bay, Florida. In keeping with courtroom paperwork obtained by AllHIpHop, Isis Claro requested a Florida courtroom for a remaining judgment of possession in a criticism towards Banks for failure to pay hire on Tuesday (July 2).
“This eviction was filed as a result of Tenant owes Plaintiff’s late hire,” Claro’s movement learn. “Defendant filed an Reply thereby stopping a clerk’s default; nonetheless, Defendant didn’t deposit hire into the Court docket Registry. Florida Statutes particularly state that in an motion by the owner for possession of a dwelling unit, if the tenant interposes any protection aside from fee, together with however not restricted to the protection of a faulty 3-day discover, the tenant shall pay into the registry of the courtroom the accrued hire as alleged within the criticism.”
The movement continued, “Failure of the tenant to pay the hire into the registry of the courtroom or to file a movement to find out the quantity of hire to be paid into the registry inside 5 days … after the date of service of course of constitutes an absolute waiver of the tenant’s defenses aside from fee. And the owner is entitled to a right away default judgment for the removing of the tenant.”
Claro pursued Banks’ eviction over hire in June. The controversial rapper allegedly owed $8,000.
Banks filed a movement claiming she labored out an settlement along with her landlord earlier than a month-to-month tenancy time period’s expiration. She supposedly agreed to offer $2,950 to cowl the month of June and Claro would apply a complicated fee of $7,050 to cowl the prior month’s hire.
Claro denied the alleged association. The owner accused Banks of making an attempt to “delay making the deposit and frustrate the method.” Claro urged the courtroom to strike Banks’ reply and grant the owner’s default judgment.
