BP348
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damn landlord won't return our security deposits!! i emailed them. no response. my roommate emailed them. no response. i called them. no response. i left a voice message. no response.
Just wondering, did you and your roommates do a walkthrough of the apartment with the LL and do some kind of paperwork that showed any/all preexisting problems with the apartment prior to moving in? If so do you still have a copy of that paperwork? Did any one go through the apartment before you moved out, hopefully with the LL and document any/ all problems when you moved out? By chance did you take pictures? If not then you're probably going to eat the security deposit and any legal fees for the LL if you take the LL to court. Very hard to prove you left the apartment in decent condition unless you have some type of documentation. Plus the LL isn't obligated to let you back into the apartment and even if he did he could claim he fixed and/or cleaned the problems you and your roommates caused or left behind. From your posts right now I think it's a he said she said kind of thing and if the LL states you left the apartment dirty so he used the deposit to have the apartment cleaned what do you say to disprove that? I lost a deposit one time because the LL stated I broke one slat in a window blind and in her opinion the carpets were dirty. In the end it was going to cost me more then the $500 deposit even if I won my case. Hope you win but unless you have your ducks in a row a lot better then what you've stated here I don't see you getting your deposit back.