This is a landlord issue that has ended up on my credit report that I have been unable to remove or negotiate. 
I lived in the apartment for 2 years. I notified them that I was moving and why I was moving. They claimed I did n't give them proper notice and that I owed them a full month of rent because I moved out on XXXX XXXX. They stated that my rental contract tied me to that full amount. In XXXX of that year, they provided me incorrect information stating that on XXXX XXXX I was on a month to month contract so I did n't believe I was under contract at that time. Either way, I offered them the money from XXXX XXXX ( covering 3 days past my move out date ). The reasons I moved it which they were fully aware of was that I had a drug dealer living above me and the conditions were atrocious and I had a XXXX XXXX XXXX living with me. There were assaults, abuse, drug deals, etc. The entire building had been involved with alerting the office at least once to twice a month. Nothing was done. They stated " its hard to evict someone '' but its apparently not hard to try to collect a debt from someone because they sent this to collection instantly after I moved out. I guess it would have been more difficult to evict me than it would be for me to move out with notice and complaint. They have placed the full amount of the debt they state I owe on my credit report and have told me this will prevent me from getting credit in the future ( and it has ). Its not fair to force someone to pay for something saying the contract was broken even though they broke the contract as well by not providing a safe, drug free environment for ME as a tenant to live in. I do n't get to collect from them for that. I just have to sit back as a single mother and allow them to ruin my credit. I really have no recourse but to pay this debt or just never be able to buy a house or a car. And this is all because I moved out of a dangerous environment without what they call 'proper notice '. I am sure you will see that they were notified and that they also broke their contract. They are slum lords who prey on people just trying to survive. 
