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Stiffed for Security Deposit
Hey, here's my situation. I had a security deposit of $2900 last year, and moved into an apartment in the same building with a deposit of only $2700.
When I left everything was clean, and the new tenants had the landlord paint and recarpet the entire apartment just to freshen things up.
Well After 1 month in the new apartment, our landlord sold the building and all the leases to a large realty company. I have still not received the difference of $200, and the new landlord says it's the old landlord's responsibility. The old landlord now claims we left a dirty apartment and she had to pay for a cleaning crew and for trash removal. This is not the case because I stayed up to 5AM with my friend cleaning the place so this wouldn't happen. Plus she never provided us with any receipt. On top of that, she abuses an old Polish couple to have them clean the building for extremely cheap (I'm sure off the records).
My time is pretty valuable to me but is there any way I can get this money without too much time and effort? Obviously if I hired a lawyer it wouldn't be economically sound.
-Rudey
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