Law Student With Housing Advocacy Chops Battles Lease-to-Own Company Over Home Repairs
Matthew Cardinale has filed an Anti-SLAPP motion against Divvy Homes, which has sought to rescind his lease-to-own contract over what it claims are his unreasonably extensive repair demands.
May 02, 2018 at 05:30 PM
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A real estate company that offers lease-to-own homes has asked a judge to let it out of contract with a local law student whose resume includes arguing and winning a pro se suit against the city of Atlanta at the Georgia Supreme Court.
In a suit filed last month, San Francisco-based Divvy Homes claims it was misled by Matthew Cardinale, a housing advocate and publisher of online news webpage Atlanta Progressive News, who asked Divvy to makes multiple repairs to the northwest Atlanta house he bought in February.
Cardinale, the company said “appears to have entered into the lease agreement for purposes of his own agenda and not in a good faith effort to pursue home ownership” with Divvy.
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