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Security Deposit Query

Postby 646guy » Tue Sep 03, 2002 4:22 pm

I posted a question earlier about my landlady making threats and I have a follow up question. My previous two roommates have used their security deposit as their last month's rent in the apartment. So here are my questions:

1) Is there anything to stop her from allowing me to do the same?

2) And if I do use my security deposit as my last months rent what happens if there are repairs in the apartment needed? Someone told me that carpet cleaning and painting are required to be done prior to all new tenants inhabiting an apartment and are not to be deducted from the rent. Is this true?

3) Basically, she has not conducted ANY surveys of the apartment's interior in the past three years when the last people moved out. Can I, as the last person living there, be sued for any of this? When I moved in 1998, she did no exam or has she examined the apartment after each of my roommates left. Therefore, am I to be held accountable for this even if there is no security deposit balance? Can I be sued?

The reason I ask is because knowing this psycho, she would sue me...
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Re: Security Deposit Query

Postby 646guy » Wed Sep 11, 2002 2:30 pm

Just wanted to follow up with this as I am in teh process of moving out and would like to know my rights prior to moving....thx
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Re: Security Deposit Query

Postby ChrisG » Thu Sep 12, 2002 9:41 am

i'd say, if she agrees to letting you use the deposit as last month's rent, then you don't have to worry about anything. do you have compelling evidence that should might sue? many LL's take it for granted that there will be repairs needed between tenants and don't make much of a fuss. since she hasn't been too concerned up til now, i bet she won't go after you once you've moved out (unless you've bashed down a wall or something).

my last LL allowed us to use our deposit as last rent and even though there were repairs needed, he never checked and we never heard from him again. of course, i have my doubts he actually made the necessary repairs before he rented it again, but that's another story.
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