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renatl security deposit
we recently moved out of a rental. The landlord did not like us and choose to evect because we negotiated and signed a lesser rental agreement than he liked. So he found someone else to rent the house to for more. The landlord now wishes to keep 500$ of a 1000$ deposit for a missing chandelier skirt, mold damage to deep freezer, and oil stain drops on the garage floor. We have pictures to prove the chandalier skirt was not there before we moved in, pics showing mold damage on deep freezer before we moved in which was only there for 3 months of the 11 months we were there because he came and took it back to his house and was never informed of any damage after he took the deep freeze three months into the rental until now that we are moving out. The oil stains are there but pics show some there before we moved in also. In MY opinion they are not excessive, they are normal oil drops from a car parked in a garage. The is the landlord, a realtor (middle man), then us. The middle man (the realtor) hand carried me some papers as a carbon copy showing what the landlord intended to keep of the security deposit. I am in dispute of this obviously. Is the hand carrying of papers sufficient or do they need to be certified mail.

Asked on 8/13/08, 2:12 pm

Alexander Kaplan Alexander L. Kaplan, PA

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Re: renatl security deposit

With your proof you should be able to take the landlord to small claims court to recover most if not all of your deposit.

Answered on 8/13/08, 8:24 pm

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