Alabama woman charged legal fees in apartment eviction battle gets fees dropped [Video]

A months-long battle between a Hoover woman and her apartment complex is one step closer to coming to an end. After facing an eviction over a year ago, the woman said the property management was coming to collect.Téa Barnes lives at the Overlook at Greystone on Cahaba Valley Road in Hoover. She said this all started when she was going through a hard time in October 2023 and was almost evicted from her apartment. Barnes said she paid all the fees to dismiss the case, but nearly a year later, she was facing another eviction.Barnes said property management company BH Management Services was trying to illegally charge her legal fees for the case that was dismissed over a year ago. She said her rent is usually paid online, but those legal fees were added to her resident portal along with last month’s charges. She said an employee in the leasing …