Issues with landlord..!

Ok. I just moved out of an apartment that I have been living in for the last 3 months. The damage deposit was $425. It was an old house.

Before we begin Id liek to say taht I only took this place because I was stuck and there were no other place available that I coudl afford.

The place was a dump, bathroom and kitchen faucets were either dead or leaking, the toilet was broken, and the closet in the bedroom was covered in mould. IT also took the incompetent dumbass 2.5 months to get me a mailbox key.

Before I moved in, the landlord painted the bathtub lining with latex paint and put some new caulking down. The tub lining is old and rotten. After two weeks, the mould came through the tub lining. Because of the other thigns that were broken, the landlord was coming and going all the time, sometimes while I was sleeping (I sleep in the morning because I work evenings) for the first week. After ruining my sleep for a week and he got the faucets and toilets fixed, I said screw it, im tired of this, ill just tolerate the bathtub because im only gonna be here for a month or two.

Now that I am moving out, they are saying that they are going to take some or all of my damage deposit because of teh mould. All the landlord did was paint over it before I moved in. Its not like its just mould on the outside taht can be scrubbed off, its coming from behind the tub lining, like theres water damage. I asked a friend who was in a similar situation, and she said that because I left it and didnt tell the landlord, I might be at fault.

Does this sound accurate to you, that it might be my fault? Man I am so pissed..

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Damn.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


Seriuosly pisses me off.

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<b>It's a man's obligation to stick his boneration in a women's separation; this sort of penetration will increase the population of the younger generation.</b>

exactly

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how is your bond handled?

does the landlord have your bond, or does the government have your bond.

here the government takes ALL bonds and the landlord has no right to it untill its agreeed by both parties that it is to be returned or taken.

you have a tenancy tribunal to sort out these disputes?

my parents are landlords here, and as a landlord they would have no right to keep the bond for a situation like that. but if they thought they did have a right to the bond and the tenant didn't it would need to go to the tenancy tribunal to sort it out.

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You should've repainted the bathtub lining before you moved out, because if you had told him about it thats all he would have done, and returned back to him some of his sorry a$$ed maintenance practices, you can always go to small claims court but you have to prove your case.


Heres a tip for you as long as you're renting from a landlord, before you move a thing into the house or apartment, have at least one witness with you, take a camcorder with sound and date/time stamp capability, walk over all the property you're responsible for, go through every room of the house or apartment, video walls, ceilings, floors, specifically any carpet stains, or mold and mildew, and video document what it looks like, if you see something wrong like a doorknob busted through a wall, take closeups and make an audio comment about it, put that tape in a safe protected place, like a firebox or safe deposit box. Do the same thing when you move out after you've cleaned up everything, those tapes can save you from a lot of trouble, sometimes even the worst of the crooked landlords, will regretfully give you your deposit back, if you let them know you have video tapes of the property before and after and a witness.


I had a landlord once that was almost laughing in my face at the prospects of having to give me my deposit back, I had actually done some repairs on the place and was leaving it in better shape than it was when we took possession of it, but when I told him I'd see him in court and that I had made a video walkthrough of the property, with witnesses just in case he decided not to give me back my deposit. You could hear his voice change instantly, I got the deposit back. If your landlord turns out to be an a$$, be more a$$ than him.



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still got your pep i see dhlucke.

Alltaken

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Gotta admit, sounds a bit like an episode from Survivor.
Tune in after the break, and see who is voted off at the tribunal.

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We have a government agency called the "Rentalsman". My damage deposit is handled by them... I think its a great idea, makes it safer for landlords and tenants alike.

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<b>It's a man's obligation to stick his boneration in a women's separation; this sort of penetration will increase the population of the younger generation.</b>