Guess we're not getting that security deposit back
Now I thought that I only had to worry about avoiding ex-boyfriends, or past due creditors on the phone (just kidding, I have stunning credit) but now there is the ex-landlord. Let me explain that we were really fed up living where we lived and when we moved out we maybe weren't as dilligent as we could have been cleaning up. We did go back and throw out all the garbage and wipe the walls down, vaccum, clean the bathroom etc.
Today I finally bit the bullet and called the ex-landlord to give them our new information. I wasn't looking forward to the call. These people were fine, I guess they did what they had to do to keep the place up, but they mostly were a pain every time something went wrong. We'd end up with ridiculous situations. Just take my word for it that there were good reasons why we didn't kill ourselves cleaning up before we turned in the keys. I actually thought we did MORE than we should of.
So the landlord yelled at me for about 45 minutes - seriously -because of the following: we didn't clean the oven, we didn't scrub the outside of the wood cabinets, we didn't soak the oven hood filter in bleach, we didn't dust the ceiling fans, we didn't pay anyone to shampoo the carpets, we didn't scrub BEHIND THE TOILET, we repainted the kitchen, but we didnt' paint BEHIND THE APPLIANCES, we never told them a window was broken, we turned off the heat because we moved out, we didn't remind them repeatedlly to fix things that were broken, and we didn't tell them a ceiling tile was discolored.
After all the shit we did to improve that house that is in the worst neighborhood I ever lived in, she yells at me for not cleaning behind the toilet. She basically acused us of being dirty dirty people with no morals. Dirty, filthy people who don't move gas ovens to paint behind them. Heathens who don't clean their ceiling fans.
Oh and our seemingly innocent neighbor who used to wave hi to us told her we never shoveled the sidewalk during the snowstorms which is (pardon my french) a goddamn lie! I shoveled that shit. You saw my post!
WHATEVER!
I can't believe I had to deal with crazy ladies yelling at me for 45 minutes on the phone on a Saturday when I have a mild (improving) case of malaria.
GAWD!!
Posted by jen at April 2, 2005 11:24 PM
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Wow, in all my years of apartment surfing (8 addresses in 5 years) I've never lost a security deposit without breaking a lease. I did have a landlord throw dry cat food at me while I ran through the living room in my bathrobe though.
I do know some people that lost their security deposit by raising mutant cats and not using a litter box. The landlord had to strip the place to down to the studs to get the stink out.
I guess it sucks to be you, or were you raising mutant cats somewhere? and conveniently forgot to blog about it, hmmm?
Posted by: Hassan Hodges at April 3, 2005 08:51 AM
See, this is all the reason why you should have:
A. Left raw ground beef in all the heating vents.
2. Left 25 lbs. of peanuts in the attack for those poor, starving squirrels.
D. Left an "upper-decker" in one, if not all, of the toilets in the apt.
If you need help with any or all of these things, you know where to find me.
Posted by: Shiz at April 3, 2005 12:10 PM
Landlords are CRAZY sometimes...
At least you are out of there now!
Posted by: frecklegirl at April 4, 2005 08:53 AM
Grrrr....That kind of stuff just irks me. I didn't get a deposit back for my last apartment in Winona. We cleaned that place like crazy and the ppl before us didn't clean at all! I was so mad, but they knew we wouldn't do anything b/c we were graduated and leaving town...Arghh...I feel your pain.
Posted by: Kiddo78 at April 4, 2005 07:53 PM
