Legal battles with fairfield - update

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>1st post: Has anyone dealt with Fairfield properties on a legal level?</p> <p>My husband and I had to break our lease 8 months early due to habitability issues for the safety and wellbeing of ourselves and 1 year old. We tried to come to a monetary agreement with them but they wanted 4 months of rent on top of fees. We have well documented proof of everything that transpired the year and 3 months we lived there. Now they sent us a demand letter for 10 thousand otherwise they are taking us to collections and pursuing legal action. I have tried to get in contact with them to get this matter resolved on a reasonable monetary agreement and avoid courts, but with no response from any management, doesn’t seem hopeful. I need advice and any helpful information/suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.</p> <p>UPDATE: After receiving a lot of helpful feedback and getting in touch with a reporter through our Reddit post, we decided to make a Tik Tok about some of the issues we experienced. It got over 100,000 views and tons of comments from other tenants about similar unresolved habitability issues and unresponsive maintenance teams at several of their locations across Long Island! </p> <p>My husband was VERY persistent with the local news stations, and eventually News 12 picked up the story! They have been doing such a great job at shedding light on some of these issues, and we hope that something good will actually come out of this.</p> <p>Thanks for all the support</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/No-Stuff-2905"> /u/No-Stuff-2905 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/longisland/comments/1t1frnb/legal_battles_with_fairfield_update/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/longisland/comments/1t1frnb/legal_battles_with_fairfield_update/">[comments]</a></span>