Legal Question in Business Law in Florida

as required by my home security monitoring company, I sent to them via certified mail a letter stating my intent to not renew my monitoring contract with them (it had a auto renewal clause with no notice given by them). The letter was postmarked on Sept 29th, since the contract term was up on Oct 30th. The company told me that since they did not have the letter in their hands until oct 2, I was too late and my contract would be renewed for another 3 years. Does the postmark date not satisfy the 30 days requirement? The contract does not state that it must arrive at their office and be accepted by them within the 30 day period. thank you


Asked on 10/23/09, 12:46 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Lesly Longa Longa Law P.A.

It's hard to answer this without looking at the language of the contract/cancellation policy. Although it seems you knew it was an auto-renewal, I would try to speak to someone there to resolve this. Did you at least send the letter of cancellation by certified mail or have a date stamped receipt of when it was mailed?

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Answered on 10/28/09, 11:39 am


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