Can a contract be void or invalid if....?

Question Details: I had an apartment that I had signed with 3 years in a row. Let me just say that I did have alot of trouble with this company as the staff was very unprofessional and maintenance always took about a week to fix things. the second year I signed they made a mistake on my contract and they had me come into the office to sign a new lease or contract because according to them the contract is not valid if there are mistakes and white out could not be on it to correct errors that they made. On the third 3 year around I only stayed because my rent was really cheep 410.00 a month. I noticed that they had made to say from April 05 to March 05. I did bring it up to them but never did they fix it. I finally could not take it no more and moved out I did give them a 2 week notice only but they put it on my credit report as a broken contract. My question is can I make them take it off if they made the mistake? Did I actually break a contract if the dates were wrong?

Yes, It was a legal and binding contract and they messed up the dates and as you said they cannot use white out. Their bad your good.

i suppose that legally if that's what the lease said and then technically by law you wouldn't of broke the lease at all. i would talk to them and see what your old landlord thinks!

a contract is supposed to have a valid linces

At this point, I think you'd need a civil court judges ruling in order to get the credit co. to take it off your credit report. Try small claims court. Some judges are sticklers for the details, others consider the intent or spirit of the document. Good luck.

So you want the debt removed on a technicality?
Do you owe the debt or not.
If you owe it, pay it!
I seriously think that anyone with an ounce of sense would realize that you cannot have a retro contract, meaning you cannot sign a contract today that would last until a date before you signed it. I would think a court would use a 'reasonable man standard' since you lived there after the contract would have expired.
So say the contract was infact void for the reasons that you state.
Then your last VALID contract would go to a MONTH TO MONTH CONTRACT. In that instance, you would still owe them ONE MONTH's NOTICE before you vacate!

You did not give that by your own admission so PAY UP!

Since you lived at this apartment for 3 years ..each year renewing the lease, you were well aware of the contract clauses.
I can bet that in your contract there was a clause stating you needed to give the landlord 30 days if you planned on moving which you did not do.
It would be considered breach of contract REGARDLESS of the wrong date i.e. April05 - march05.. which is just a typo and oversite by management.

The law in most states says that in a month to month lease /no lease 30 days notice is needed and THAT my friend is probably the reason you now have that smudge on your credit report.

Sorry kiddo-- you can argue the point but bottom line is you will probably loose

Yes you broke the contract because of the two week notice if nothing else--did you have an early lease termination clause or not? Could have required more than 30 days, etc. Even with a date typo that doesn't invalidate the contract which you continued to operate under.
You can't get accurate info off your credit report either no matter what some scammers claim.
This will lose significance as time goes by.