Rental lawsuit question (long)

Here's the situation:

Renter rents a house from Landlord with year lease and deposit of first months rent. Renter completes the lease with no late payments whatsoever and continues month-to-month for an additional year with no late payments or complications.
Renter provides 30-day notice and leaves. House is left in better condition than when rented. (Renter worked in remodeling and with full agreement of landlord, fixed some major issues, added missing doors, etc.) However, normal wear and tear on carpets did occur over 2 years. Nothing more as Renter was great about care of carpet and house. Upon leaving, house was scrubbed and in better-than-moved-into condition. Landlord did not show for three scheduled walk-through's of the property before Renter left. Renter expect most, if not all of $1100 deposit will be returned.

Within appropriate time frame, Renter receives from Landlord a bill for $1350 - $1100 deposit. Landlord says they will turn to collection if not paid. Renter sends request for detailed information regarding charges and finds several untrue or inconsistent entries and sends detailed dispute of charges to landlord with intent to sue. Landlord does not reply in any form. Renter does not sue. A year passes. No collection action is taken by Landlord.

Now, my question (and thanks for reading my story), if renter does not sue, can Landlord (after waiting 2 years from intent to sue letter by Renter), then go after Renter without fear of suit? Of course, going to collection then? Does the renter lose their rights to defend themselves on this?

Thank you!

 

Thanks for the info. I appreciate that. On the side of the renter, I am wondering if the Landlord could sit quietly until the renter could not sue anymore and then try to go after renter (through CA or whatever)? But, if I understand you right, reanter then could address the violations of furnisher of information as you suggest. Thanks

 

Yessir..I just started wondering if they were going to sit quietly and then start getting active when the 2 year lawsuit time was up for us to sue them (it is 2 years, right?)

 

DH's father has cancer...to be quite honest, we couldn't travel up to CO for lawsuit.

 

For what it's worth, I did do all of those things you mentioned within the time frame necessary and send intent to sue as required by CO law except I just never filed. I have accepted the loss of the $1100...just don't want to be hit up by this guy for the $250 and not have anything I can do about it. Even more imporantly, I don't want our credit affected. Thanks, George, for the input!

We decided care of DH's dad was more important than the money so we are comfortable with the tradeoff.

 

LKH, I never thought of that! Thank you! What a great idea!