District Court of Appeal of Florida December 8, 1981, Nos. 79-1310 and 79-2341 to 79-2344 (Guthartz v. Lewis)

DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.

Barnett Guthartz, the owner of a 238-unit apartment complex called Bay Terrace Apartments, was sued by sixty of his tenants. As third-party beneficiaries of a regulatory agreement between Guthartz and the FHA, the insurer of the mortgage on the buildings, the tenants claimed that Gu-thartz had collected from them rents and security deposits in excess of the maximum