“Nope. You failed to inform me that the ductwork in the slab would fill with water during heavy rains. I have video of the air vents gurgling and spewing water.”
Happened to me recently. Lived in an apartment for 6 years, place was just about the same when I left minus a small stain or two. He told me the apartment had to be 100% the way it was when I first moved in. Kept $750.
I paid for cleaning when I moved into my old place. The house was disgusting. Tons of never cleaned spills. So nasty. I paid for half the cost of cleaning. Landlord paid the other half.
When we moved out, we cleaned the place top to bottom. It was move-in ready. We even cleaned the inside of the kitchen cabinets.
The landlord still charged me $150 for cleaning, and got pissy when I pointed out that I paid for cleaning twice. Guy was a jerkoff.
Video tape your whole apartment as you back out and secure all doors and windows clearly.
And video tape yourself walking to the hoa and handing over your key.
Sommerset appartments in colorado tried to hit us months later with a lawsuit for damages and for not turning in the key. They also refused to give us a reciept for the key so we forced them to photocopy a buisness csrd snd key and sign the bitch. We showed the video of us backing out and securing and yanking on every window, and told them we are not responisble after that video ends. The court was going to take the hoas word on the matter until we trumped them with facts.
My landlord tried to screw me for mine which led to me discovering it was no longer held in the legally required deposit scheme (I live in UK). Got my full deposit back plus £1k because I threatened to take him to a tribunal.
Mine is tellinge me that he’ll retain the deposit for 3-4 months “to see if there are any unpaid bills”… He also told me that “it’s customary to keep half of the deposit, just in case the renter wants to stay a couple more weeks”, this of course after he lied to me saying that the deposit I gave him was half the actual amount…
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edit: after i caught him lying to me about the actual amount
We had to sue to get ours back from the last one. The parasite kept stalling the court date and when we finally got our hearing he got caught lying to the judge.
I’m actually going through this very battle woth my former landlord, and they keep claiming the check is in the mail, and that it must have gotten lost in the mail. It has now been 4 months since I’ve moved out, and now I can try and take the to court for it. Fuck landlords.
Our oven wasn’t working for over 3 months, she kept promising to fix it, but never actually did. When we moved out she kept the deposit because we broke her oven and “never told her”
That’s why a real LPT is to take a picture of every room and wall and area of the house right before signing the lease so you can have proof that the property incurred no damages during your residency.
Not a landlord, but my parents are, and they pay my brother and I to fix the shit their tenants break. Sorry bud, but if I have to reach through maggoty shit (yes, literally. Of course I wore gloves) and pull out Batman to unclog a toilet you left to fester, and rent a small dumpster to clear the 100s of moldy pizza boxes out of the garage because you didn’t want to pay for garbage removal, not only are you an animal, but you aren’t getting the deposit back.
I know it’s not everyone. But a look from the other end. My parents are more than fair as far as landlords go (allowed tenants to not pay rent for a couple months when they were trying to find a job, even before COVID, fixes things within the week when informed, put in updated stuff that they would want to live with, etc) and a solid 30% of the time, the tenants leave disgusting shit or holes in the walls or let their “service animals” to piss and shit on the carpets and chew up the deck rails, and then cry about their deposits. So no, it’s not all, it’s not most, but it is far from rare.
That’s why you photograph/video your rental the day you take possession of it and then do the same when you move out.
I’ve been on both sides of the landlord/tenant relationship and I always took a shitload of photos on the day the lease started and on the day it ended. I also made sure to take them with my landlord/tenant or their representative present and would discretely snap a couple photos with them in it for documentation.
Lol when I was very young the landlord who rented me a very shitty, always damp, renovated-by-drunk-monkeys-apartment actually made me go to court for getting my deposit back. When I explained myself and said I had pictures the judge looked like she was ready to punch the landlord several times for wasting her time like that. Absolute piece of shit.
I’ve heard too many horror stories of landlords falsely accusing ex residents of damage and even going as far as to point out damages that were there before the residents moved in all just to keep the deposit.
My friend rented an apartment for a year and before he moved all his gear in he and his sister scoured the entire apartment inch by inch and documented every single thing that was damaged or on the verge of breaking.
Before moving in they made the landlord aware of everything and handed them the list while keeping a copy.
Year passes and they try to get their deposit back. Landlord uses a rewritten version of their original list to pin all the exact same damages they listed as an argument to withhold the deposit and even demanded 1500 more as the deposit wouldn’t cover the damages.
Quick scroll through all the photos later which showed they were taken days before they moved in and a mention of lawyers averted any further conflict and they got their deposit back.
Made sure to spread the word of this landlords bullshit antics.
CaffeineOrbital
“Nope. You failed to inform me that the ductwork in the slab would fill with water during heavy rains. I have video of the air vents gurgling and spewing water.”
-One way I got out of that when I was younger.
Happened to me recently. Lived in an apartment for 6 years, place was just about the same when I left minus a small stain or two. He told me the apartment had to be 100% the way it was when I first moved in. Kept $750.
I paid for cleaning when I moved into my old place. The house was disgusting. Tons of never cleaned spills. So nasty. I paid for half the cost of cleaning. Landlord paid the other half.
When we moved out, we cleaned the place top to bottom. It was move-in ready. We even cleaned the inside of the kitchen cabinets.
The landlord still charged me $150 for cleaning, and got pissy when I pointed out that I paid for cleaning twice. Guy was a jerkoff.
Mine actually asked for 2 extra months of rent because “it takes a while to find another renter”.
Video tape your whole apartment as you back out and secure all doors and windows clearly.
And video tape yourself walking to the hoa and handing over your key.
Sommerset appartments in colorado tried to hit us months later with a lawsuit for damages and for not turning in the key. They also refused to give us a reciept for the key so we forced them to photocopy a buisness csrd snd key and sign the bitch. We showed the video of us backing out and securing and yanking on every window, and told them we are not responisble after that video ends. The court was going to take the hoas word on the matter until we trumped them with facts.
My landlord tried to screw me for mine which led to me discovering it was no longer held in the legally required deposit scheme (I live in UK). Got my full deposit back plus £1k because I threatened to take him to a tribunal.
Screw (most) landlords.
Mine is tellinge me that he’ll retain the deposit for 3-4 months “to see if there are any unpaid bills”… He also told me that “it’s customary to keep half of the deposit, just in case the renter wants to stay a couple more weeks”, this of course after he lied to me saying that the deposit I gave him was half the actual amount…
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edit: after i caught him lying to me about the actual amount
We had to sue to get ours back from the last one. The parasite kept stalling the court date and when we finally got our hearing he got caught lying to the judge.
I’m actually going through this very battle woth my former landlord, and they keep claiming the check is in the mail, and that it must have gotten lost in the mail. It has now been 4 months since I’ve moved out, and now I can try and take the to court for it. Fuck landlords.
As someone who has successfully sued multiple landlords for this very thing: all landlords can choke on a buffet of dicks.
EVERY TIME
that’s why I don’t pay the last 2 months before leaving, they’re gonna keep that money from my deposit anyway
Our oven wasn’t working for over 3 months, she kept promising to fix it, but never actually did. When we moved out she kept the deposit because we broke her oven and “never told her”
That’s why a real LPT is to take a picture of every room and wall and area of the house right before signing the lease so you can have proof that the property incurred no damages during your residency.
The real question is what do they do with it? Is there some kind of secret foreskin landfill?
Maybe I’m crazy, but we have only 1 tenet and we plan on giving it back. We also give them their rent back each Christmas.
I rented when I was younger and slumlorda are the worst.
WHERE WAS GONDOR WHEN THE WESTFOLD FELL?
Landlords and Air BNBers (is there a term for them?)
Bro this is too accurate
The Landlord?! Where was the Landlord when the HVAC unit fell?!
Every landlord my wife and I have had has attempted this. We have always gotten our money back. Don’t mess with my wife lol.
Not a landlord, but my parents are, and they pay my brother and I to fix the shit their tenants break. Sorry bud, but if I have to reach through maggoty shit (yes, literally. Of course I wore gloves) and pull out Batman to unclog a toilet you left to fester, and rent a small dumpster to clear the 100s of moldy pizza boxes out of the garage because you didn’t want to pay for garbage removal, not only are you an animal, but you aren’t getting the deposit back.
I know it’s not everyone. But a look from the other end. My parents are more than fair as far as landlords go (allowed tenants to not pay rent for a couple months when they were trying to find a job, even before COVID, fixes things within the week when informed, put in updated stuff that they would want to live with, etc) and a solid 30% of the time, the tenants leave disgusting shit or holes in the walls or let their “service animals” to piss and shit on the carpets and chew up the deck rails, and then cry about their deposits. So no, it’s not all, it’s not most, but it is far from rare.
Blatant landphobia ????
I think I’m gonna be sick ????
All I did was smear shit on the walls, it really cleans off pretty easy smh
I literally had a broken window and got my deposit back. lol
The only time I haven’t gotten my deposit back was when I broke my lease and moved out early.
*sees a teeny tiny scratch on the corner wall that can’t be seen unless you bend over 120° and break at least two ribs*
**TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS!!**
That’s why you photograph/video your rental the day you take possession of it and then do the same when you move out.
I’ve been on both sides of the landlord/tenant relationship and I always took a shitload of photos on the day the lease started and on the day it ended. I also made sure to take them with my landlord/tenant or their representative present and would discretely snap a couple photos with them in it for documentation.
Lol when I was very young the landlord who rented me a very shitty, always damp, renovated-by-drunk-monkeys-apartment actually made me go to court for getting my deposit back. When I explained myself and said I had pictures the judge looked like she was ready to punch the landlord several times for wasting her time like that. Absolute piece of shit.
I’ve heard too many horror stories of landlords falsely accusing ex residents of damage and even going as far as to point out damages that were there before the residents moved in all just to keep the deposit.
My friend rented an apartment for a year and before he moved all his gear in he and his sister scoured the entire apartment inch by inch and documented every single thing that was damaged or on the verge of breaking.
Before moving in they made the landlord aware of everything and handed them the list while keeping a copy.
Year passes and they try to get their deposit back. Landlord uses a rewritten version of their original list to pin all the exact same damages they listed as an argument to withhold the deposit and even demanded 1500 more as the deposit wouldn’t cover the damages.
Quick scroll through all the photos later which showed they were taken days before they moved in and a mention of lawyers averted any further conflict and they got their deposit back.
Made sure to spread the word of this landlords bullshit antics.
This one hurts **bad**
Well i don’t love landlords but Frodo and Bilbo both were lol
It’s illegal to take a deposit where I live ????♂️
Hang the parasites!!
Yea….. after they haven’t been paid rent for a year due to COVID but they still have to pay the mortgage.