Ilv4play wrote:
Seabreeze wrote:
you just lose your deposit
But then again you lose your deposit anyway.
+100
Hell when I was getting ready to move out of the first place I live here (after 5 years no less) I even filled in every little nail hole from hanging pictures on the walls and repainted every wall! When I moved in the mattress in the master bedroom was terrible (thin foam and wore out) I complained to the landlady who said she would look at it and if it needed replacing she would but with the same type mattress. I told her I was going to buy a really good mattress and what did she want me to do with the old mattress. She told me in writing to just throw it away which I did. I had also put in nice drapes on all the windows which I left there when I moved.
A week after moving out (with having given her a months notice) I called to inquire about the deposit: She gave me 3 reasons for NOT returning it: (1) The walls were very dirty and stained and had to be repainted!! This after 5 years of no maintenance at all by her, and I had just repainted the entire place. (2) Where was her mattress?? She denied telling me to discard it and said the paper where she had told me to discard it was a forgery!! (3) Said she had to spend over $100 having "HER" drapes cleaned!! Just as in the states landlords WILL find (makeup) reasons to never give back a deposit!!
As for as a "bad reference" is concerned--not really a problem in most cases here--they never seem to check out references nor past history!!
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