Apartment complex trying to make me pay legal fees for eviction (CA)
So I live in California, and I got a 3 day notice on May 8th. I had recently lost my job and was reaching out to VOA to help me out because I'm a veteran. There was some issues with my paperwork so there was a delay on the payments but we kept in constant contact with the leasing office. Just this week we finally got all the funds together to cover the outstanding ledger for 3 months and when we went up there to pay it, they suddenly said I also had to pay legal fees for the eviction process as well or they wouldn't accept the money to clear the ledger. There has never been any mention of legal fees since this entire process started, I haven't been served any court papers yet. We have the money to pay the outstanding ledger but they just won't accept it. I checked my lease and there's no clause saying that I have to pay for legal fees along with my rent while I'm living there, only if the apartments win as the prevailing party in court. I'm not sure what to do because it feels like they are just stonewalling me until the court date to try and force me to pay the fees.