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phopey
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- Ohio
my wife and i moved out of our townhome 3 weeks ago. we had lived there 2 years. we took great care of the place. our initial damage deposit was $350. after being unhappy in general with the apartment complex management, we moved out. upon moving out, we requested someone from the rental office come and verify the place was in ok shape (as we had done with our last 3 apartments to avoid the foolishenss we're going through now), but no one would come. 3 weeks later (after we moved to our new home) we received a letter stating that they were keeping approx $100 of our damage deposit. various reasons included:
a. dirty stove (my wife cleaned it the day we moved out)
b. 3 light bulbs burnt out (which were actually unscrewed because i found them too bright, the other of the 4 light vanity worked... all they needed to do was tighten the bulbs to retain the connection and they would have turned on)
c. melted siding (which is an out and out lie. funny though, that our neighbour DID in fact melt his siding with his BBQ, but even still, he was in another building, not even the same one as ours. we BBQ'd in our driveway, nowhere near the house, so we didn't melt anything)
d. we had stenciled a border... initially, we obtained a lease through "Company A" who said we could stencil. Company B took over the property 18 months into our two years, and are the ones claiming that we lose X amount of our damage deposit over the stencil (which we were told we could do at our initial lease). they claim the money is for paint. considering we were there 2 years, they are required to paint regardless. in fact, first and foremost we had permission from the first landlords.
The issue to me is not the $100, the issue is that this apartment complex should not be permitted to falsely talley up charges so as to make money. I think that they figure it's only $100, so the hassle of phone calls, attorneys, etc... won't be worth it and they will get away with it. And if they get away with it this time, it will only keep on happening to other innocent people. Although i don't believe we have very recent photos of the townhome, we do have 6 people who were in the home within 48 hours of our vacating it, who could very easily attest to the cleanliness of it, and would quash the false allegations. Would that be enough?
What are my rights with this? Who can I call? Can they get away with this? Help!
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my wife and i moved out of our townhome 3 weeks ago. we had lived there 2 years. we took great care of the place. our initial damage deposit was $350. after being unhappy in general with the apartment complex management, we moved out. upon moving out, we requested someone from the rental office come and verify the place was in ok shape (as we had done with our last 3 apartments to avoid the foolishenss we're going through now), but no one would come. 3 weeks later (after we moved to our new home) we received a letter stating that they were keeping approx $100 of our damage deposit. various reasons included:
a. dirty stove (my wife cleaned it the day we moved out)
b. 3 light bulbs burnt out (which were actually unscrewed because i found them too bright, the other of the 4 light vanity worked... all they needed to do was tighten the bulbs to retain the connection and they would have turned on)
c. melted siding (which is an out and out lie. funny though, that our neighbour DID in fact melt his siding with his BBQ, but even still, he was in another building, not even the same one as ours. we BBQ'd in our driveway, nowhere near the house, so we didn't melt anything)
d. we had stenciled a border... initially, we obtained a lease through "Company A" who said we could stencil. Company B took over the property 18 months into our two years, and are the ones claiming that we lose X amount of our damage deposit over the stencil (which we were told we could do at our initial lease). they claim the money is for paint. considering we were there 2 years, they are required to paint regardless. in fact, first and foremost we had permission from the first landlords.
The issue to me is not the $100, the issue is that this apartment complex should not be permitted to falsely talley up charges so as to make money. I think that they figure it's only $100, so the hassle of phone calls, attorneys, etc... won't be worth it and they will get away with it. And if they get away with it this time, it will only keep on happening to other innocent people. Although i don't believe we have very recent photos of the townhome, we do have 6 people who were in the home within 48 hours of our vacating it, who could very easily attest to the cleanliness of it, and would quash the false allegations. Would that be enough?
What are my rights with this? Who can I call? Can they get away with this? Help!
[email protected]