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DENVER – A Denver man died unexpectedly two weeks before he was set to move into a new apartment. Now, his family says the complex won’t give them back his deposit.
“He had a huge heart,” Julie Trujillo said of her father Felix.
She said she will miss his sense of humor most because he was always able to see the good in bad situations. That is a trait she is now hoping to carry on in his memory.
“It makes it more tough. It makes me feel like I can’t move on, like I’m still trying to take care of him,” Julie said.
In March, her father had saved up enough money to move out on his own into apartments on South Sheridan Boulevard near West Mississippi Avenue in southwest Denver. His sister cosigned the application for him as his guarantor.
They paid the deposit the first week of March and signed the lease March 12.
“According to the lease, he was supposed to move in on April 1 and, of course, he didn’t make it to that,” Julie said.
Felix died unexpectedly of complications from ongoing health issues March 16.
“From what I understood, we were going to receive the deposit back,” Julie said.
Instead, they received a letter from Business Futures, Inc. charging them the full deposit of $820 for breaking the lease.
“The lease hadn’t even started, so I don’t understand how he had broken the lease that hadn’t even, he didn’t even get the chance to move into the place,” Julie said.
Business Futures, Inc sent KDVR the following response:
The family says they will continue to fight this battle for Felix and for other families who may be going through something similar.