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The last time I rented a place, I broke the lease early because I decided it was time to buy a house, and my landlord told me it was no big deal, the last month I was there while we closed on the house he considered paid for by the security deposit and I didn't have to pay for the rent that month and he didn't have to worry about returning the deposit. Real nice young guy, I'd rent from him again in a heartbeat if I needed a rental.
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Most cases for small claims in urban areas involve suing landlords for wrongful bills or penalties. Taken it to small claims.
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Over There posted:Unfortunately its a company and they said 1100 was due so I paid it online, and when I asked about why it was higher they said it was a mistake. Then when I said that I wanted it back they said that they couldn't and put it towards the deposit. Tell them you want your money now or you're calling the credit card company. If they refuse then just call your card company and say you want a chargeback. It's pretty easy for you but a huge pain in the rear end for them because the credit card companies are enormous and don't give a gently caress about the vendors
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Jun 14, 2018 04:29
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Also buy a gun
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Jun 14, 2018 04:35
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let it mellow posted:fuckin move what is this dumb argument dude  There's no jobs! "Move to where the work is then, idiot!" *moves to where work is* Housing is ridiculously expensive! "Move to where no one wants to live then, idiot!"What if housing was just affordable and in general we agreed that rent shouldn't be over a third of take home pay.
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Jun 14, 2018 04:47
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COMRADES posted:What if housing was just affordable and in general we agreed that rent shouldn't be over a third of take home pay. this agreement would be immediately followed by the erecting of guillotines
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Jun 14, 2018 04:55
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loving lol you lived in an apartment that had multiple plumbing leaks, and not only are you not getting your security deposit back but you paid them extra! you should have been the one with the money, a plumbing leak putting water into your apartment is damage to your stuff plus health concerns over mold. easiest warranty of habitability complaint in the world if you can document multiple unfixed leaks. landlords can suck but drat dude don't be a doormat
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Jun 14, 2018 05:53
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Klyith posted:loving lol you lived in an apartment that had multiple plumbing leaks, and not only are you not getting your security deposit back but you paid them extra! Yeah I'm glad we got out of there. Went back to go see it yesterday and the entire place smells of water leak smell. I checked some reviews and a lot of other people had the same issue.
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Jun 14, 2018 15:57
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Report their rear end
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Jun 14, 2018 16:00
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let it mellow posted:lol at renting, just lmao
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Jun 14, 2018 16:09
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but if rent is affordable how will I separate myself implicitly from poor brown people?
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Jun 14, 2018 16:22
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Zyklon B Zombie posted:One of my buddies just leaves his apartments trashed when he moves out because he knows they aren't going to give back the deposit anyway. I like the cut of his jib. Last landlord that tried to gently caress me over said that there was a bed missing from the inventory. No poo poo, I told them to remove it before moving in because I already had a bed and their manky old thing looked like it had every disease and parasite known to man lurking in it. I passed them copies of our correspondance from then clearly explaining/reminding them of this - including their own response stating it was not a problem, they were happy to comply and remove the bed - and they literally said "oh yes, we can see that we agreed that with you but we don't know where the bed is now and it came with the property so the cost of a replacement will be deducted from the deposit". Thing is, the deposit was in a protection scheme so I just filed a dispute asap. Low and behold, the day it was officially logged and registered and the landlord notified it was going to arbitration, they cancelled their bullshit bed claim instantly and my entire deposit was returned. Funny that. Thing is though, I was stubborn and pissed off enough to wait a couple of months to go through the process to get it back. Usually landlords can rely on the fact a most people can't wait and need their deposit (or at least the bulk of it) back instantly, so they get away with skimming off it more often than not. Basically, kill all landlords and their agents, string them up by their entrails on lampposts.
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Jun 14, 2018 16:23
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Tell me about it. I bought a house a few years back and the owner is a complete dick. An absolute rear end in a top hat.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCiYmCVikjo
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Well, now my old rental company is trying to say I shouldn’t have stopped service on my electric, because they can’t tell if all the lightbulbs are in working order. When I moved in (managed by a different rental company at the time), there was no electric service, one of the smoke detectors kept chirping, and I spent my first night there reading a book wearing a head-lamp. When I got the electric turned on, half the fixtures didn’t even have lightbulbs in them. I told them it wasn’t on my lease agreement, so sucks to suck.
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Jun 14, 2018 16:59
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the natural state of human is lazy and greedy
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Jun 14, 2018 17:39
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Oh also this is a good example of why you should never use automatic or online bill payments for small companies or anyone that might arbitrarily charge you extra. mortgages or loan payments: fine utilities like water or electric: fine, but actually look at them every month phones, internet, or landlords: gently caress no, all of these are scum Know when it's easiest to dispute a spurious bill? When the money is still in your pocket, not theirs. I cannot imagine giving a rental management company, which are the absolute least trustworthy fuckers around, access to my bank account. Pay rent by check.
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Jun 14, 2018 18:10
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when i rented like some kind of fool i got my full security deposit back despite having totally ruined the carpet and 2 of the 4 interior doors, because honestly that was pretty normal wear and tear for their lovely workman grade hardware over the time i lived there and the landlords weren't horrible crooks do people just not do any loving research before they rent from a place or what
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Jun 14, 2018 18:39
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Alternatively, THIS is how you do it when you don't want your damage deposit back.
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Jun 14, 2018 18:45
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WatermelonGun posted:landlords are literal parasites infesting our planet, and should be treated as such client posted:good times
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Jun 14, 2018 19:42
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Our landlords have raised the rent by 20% right after a tornado came through and destroyed a bunch of the housing. Death to landlords.
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Jun 14, 2018 19:45
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Our landlords have raised the rent by 20% right after a tornado came through and destroyed a bunch of the housing. is that legal
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Jun 14, 2018 19:46
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i am sure my landlord will raise my rent in my lovely dilapidated house by the maximum legal limit other than that they do leave me well enough alone and sorta fix the critical things when they break
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Jun 14, 2018 19:46
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Yeah and he was right too. I'd beat a landlord to death with my bare hands.
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Jun 14, 2018 19:49
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Verisimilidude posted:is that legal I'm pretty sure it is
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Jun 14, 2018 19:50
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WatermelonGun posted:landlords are literal parasites infesting our planet, and should be treated as such Haha first post being exactly the opposite I see all over SA that owning is SO STUPID. I'm confused where I'm supposed to live now 
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Jun 14, 2018 19:51
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:I'm pretty sure it is *bunch of people made homeless by tornado* landlord: better make more people homeless
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Burt Sexual posted:Haha first post being exactly the opposite I see all over SA that owning is SO STUPID. I'm confused where I'm supposed to live now pretty soon we’ll all be in the streets so i don’t think you’ll have to think about it too much
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Burt Sexual posted:Haha first post being exactly the opposite I see all over SA that owning is SO STUPID. I'm confused where I'm supposed to live now on the street like a animal, you piece of poo poo
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Burt Sexual posted:Haha first post being exactly the opposite I see all over SA that owning is SO STUPID. I'm confused where I'm supposed to live now squat in abandoned buildings tent in a park literal cave
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Verisimilidude posted:*bunch of people made homeless by tornado* Well you see the 300k they make a month (it's all owned by one family) doesn't quite cover the lifestyle they want so.
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Burt Sexual posted:Haha first post being exactly the opposite I see all over SA that owning is SO STUPID. I'm confused where I'm supposed to live now Bring about the American communist revolution where we all beat landlords to death and have our own house.
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i used to work for a landlord who was a total neoliberal who inherited his buildings from his dad who was an old-school pro-union nice guy democrat and who everyone universally loved and the first thing the new landlord did was install an incredibly advanced security system and charged tenants for key fobs
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Over There posted:How is it trying to contest things? Like if they say we have to pay for the stains but its obvious that it was because of the leaks, would it have to go to court as a he said she said? This entirely depends on the state and city you live in and how strong their tenant laws are. In MN for damages in general it is based on two main factors, the condition you received the apartment and if the wear and tear involved is reasonable. After 8 years basically any damages assessed would be highly suspect unless you were destroying walls or appliances. MN also has strong protections for how the security deposit can be used and what landlords have to do to keep it. They are required to provide you an invoice of what (if anything) it was used for and any remaining portion back plus interest within 21 days of move out. If they don't provide this within 21 days then they owe the full deposit + interest back + a penalty of 1x the deposit amount + interest. If there are legit damages they could charge you for they would have to do so by filing suit in civil court. That "trick" has gotten me my last two deposits back even though they wanted to keep it all. veiled boner fuel posted:Landlords make it possible for people that hosed their credit scores into the 400s with payday loans and buy here pay here cars to not be homeless and ya’ll should tongue their balls in thanks for giving you an option besides huddling under an overpass in a rain sodden pile of your own feces. Yeah, because no landlords do income or credit checks, lmbo
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numberoneposter posted:Alternatively, 
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I had a close shave getting out of having to pay a few thousand in 'repairs'. So 4 of us were sharing a house, and I was the last one to leave. We have been living there for about 5 years, it was a brand new house we moved into as well, and we treated it well. So a month before the leave date a representative of the estate agent landlord came around with the 'engineer' who looked after the houses. She was in a business suit and was proper snooty with us, and the engineer was someone we had never seen before in our lives. He never appeared when we had any problems in the past. She talked while he checked the house for any problems and such. Now one bed was broken, mine, and was expected to pay for that. And maybe a hundred or two for the cleaning up. We had 1640 euros EACH paid as deposit, and I was expecting to get a fraction of this back to send to my flatmates. A week after this inspection, snooty calls us and says we have to pay a few thousand in addition to the deposit to pay for the 'repairs' which included poo poo like recarpeting/shower repairs/painting/etc. Bastards wanted us to pay 8000 euros total. I was making GBS threads myself as I would have to pay this myself. So last day when I had to hand over the keys, dreading the worst and expecting a fight over the payment snooty pulls up. She is not in her business suit, but in t-shirt and jeans. First things she says is 'Today is my last day. Michael (estate agent owner) got his mistress pregnant and has to pay for the child. So he is firing me to pay the bitch. So give me the keys and you can go, I won't see a penny of what hes asking you to pay, so why should I help.' I had about half an hour to wait for my taxi out of there, so we but sat there and she just didn't give a poo poo about it all. There was a bottle of wine in the fridge I was going to leave there and she opened and drunk some there and then. I got out of there as fast as I could when that taxi arrived. 2 months later I get a phone call from Michael asking me to pay for 2 months rent that I 'missed'. Turns out the new tenants abandoned the place less than a month after. Laughed at him and said I moved out.
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numberoneposter posted:Alternatively, I kinda don't get this because they'll just bill you for whatever the deposit doesn't cover and it could easily end up as thousands of dollars on your credit report. 
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