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Vanguard Heights d/b/a Sandhurst Apartment Management v. Haitham Sourakli (2025)

Citation
Vanguard Heights d/b/a Sandhurst Apartment Management v. Haitham Sourakli (2025)
Parent Document
Vanguard Heights d/b/a Sandhurst Apartment Management v. Haitham Sourakli (2025)
Jurisdiction
Missouri (state)
Effective Date
2025-05-06
Original Source
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10630441/vanguard-heights-dba-sandhurst... ↗

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The call here is close, but we agree with Sourakli. We acknowledge that Vanguard’s
June 2023 notice complied with certain lease terms governing lease termination, namely
paragraphs 3 and 40, and if the lease had stopped there, Vanguard would have been entitled to
dispossess Sourakli of the premises through this unlawful detainer action without further notice.
But Vanguard chose to include additional, highly-relevant terms in the addendum that address
the specific issue here — Sourakli’s holdover status and the creation of a new tenancy. And,
importantly, Vanguard agreed that the addendum was not only part of the lease but that it
“supersede[d] any conflicting provisions in this printed lease contract form.” Inasmuch as we
are duty-bound to find and give meaning to all applicable lease provisions and to the lease as a
whole, we must hoist Vanguard on its own petard and enforce the lease as written. Background