All Forum Posts by: Mark Taylor

We were not in an apartment community. We moved from one house to another completely accross town. The original lease stated our time was from May 09 to May 10. When that lease was TERMINATED, A new lease was issued and it had that the time frame was 4 months. We were under the impression that our 700 dollars remained intact when it transfered that is why we did not address the issue. If we had been informed of the withholding on time, we could have made plans to adjust to the new security deposit. But we were misinformed and it will take time to adjust to the loss of money.

All we wanted was for a notice stating the damages when they happened. Since we did not recieve a notice we were under the impression that these charges werent going to be addressed. We didnt hear from you for 3 months or so and that was only because of the driver hitting the house. The biggest problem had is a communication issue. We tried on numerous occasions to call and were either ignored or it took a few days for a response. I understand that you have anothe job but there were many times that we needed assistance and were ignored. ie: the skunk living in the basement took 2 weeks to be addressed and the $700 electric bill on the property due to poor or no insulation. But those are beside the point. We werent aware of the charges or any dollar amount done to the previous house until 4 months later.

That was when the house was sold at that time we didn't have a place to go on such notice. The landlord had another place and we moved there. We are not homeless, we were in a tight spot though. But we were not informed of the money being taken from that deposit. Here we are 5 months later going to use that security deposit on another property and were misinformed of the amount we would be recieving and made new commitments to the new landlord but are now in need of the original money we thought we had coming to us.

We signed a new lease. It had completely different dates. Our lease stated in the event of someone buying the property that the lease was terminated 30 days later. At that time he had another place to put us. Which as I said earlier was happy with the effort. We at that time signed a new lease at that time we should have been informed of the money needed to be spent to repair the other house. We were told that he was going to patch it, And thats it. The next time we heard from him was 4 months later when a drunk hit our uninsured house.

I appologize about the financial statement. Things are said in the heat of the moment. It is just a question of curiosity on the property. I am just curious as to if any other tenant or landlord has been in this situatuin before. We werent informed of the deductions for four months and did not recieve an itemized deduction paper within 45 days of moving out and your walkthrough when we left the property. It is just out of curiosity and pure speculation. We know that the dog damaged the carpet but we were under the impression that the house was sold as is to the buyers and that it would be patched that is the only information relayed to us during this whole process from you. We only heard from you when we were able to reach you ourselves. I understand you getting on the defensive about the problems but I just feel that I have been misinformed about many of the topics that are being discussed

Easy... It is just a question. This problem wouldnt exist if our house had been insured when the drunk driver lived there. We wouldn't have had to pay well over 500 dollars to stay in a hotel. We wouldn't be as upset with the current situation. We have people whom could have replaced that carpet. and we know several people that stated that the carpet could have been patched. I am not trying to start an arguement here I am just trying to ask a simple question. We know that no matter what we do you will not pay us anything because we know of your bankruptcy issues. I am more curious about the matter for future landlords and so that I don't get the bad ones anymore.

We lived in a really nice house for about 7 months and our landlord sold it. We were aware that this could happen, but the problem is that we had a tear in the carpet that we knew would need to be replaced. We were moved to another property with the same landlord and we were thankful for his efforts in preparing that property. We signed a new lease for this property and it was listed that a 700 dollar security deposit was on this property. It was not in move in condition but we volunteered to help paint and normal things like re applying panneling on the walls for him. We lived there for around 4 months and had not been informed of the damages on the other property so we took it as it had been replaced by the new owners. We moved out of the other property a couple weeks ago and recieved a letter in the mail stating that it costed 450 dollars out of our depsit to replace the whole room because of a "12x12" hole in the carpet that could not be patched. The tear was no more than "6x6" And we were not informed of these damages within 45 days of moving out of the other property. Are we still legally responsible to pay those. That and is 450 dollars reasonable to repair the whole room. We havent been shown a receipt, nor did we ever do a walkthrough of that property when we left.