Re: Security Deposit Refund Issue - Landlord Forum thread

Re: Security Deposit Refund Issue by NY-LL on June 19, 2012 @22:50

"My question is this. When we were negotiating the lease, we agreed on $50 less per month to do a 2 year lease. There is nothing about this discount in the lease, it was just verbal and the monthly lease price in the lease is what we were paying ($50 less than he had it posted for). He wants to keep $600 of the security deposit as a re-payment of this discount since I only ended up staying there one year. I'm already paying him (well... my work is paying him) a 2 months rent breaklease penalty."

According to tenant's statements "There is nothing about this discount in the lease ... just verbal ..."

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Re: Security Deposit Refund Issue by Anonymous on June 19, 2012 @23:11	[ Reply ]

Answer me this... when have you profited $3,000 to $5,000 off of a tenant? When have you told someone you'll use his security deposit (it is my money, not his as it's a security deposit, not rent) for something other than actual damages? This may have been different if he would've asked, not told me, what he was going to do. And you still haven't addressed he legality of him renting out the place in July, which is a month I am legally entitled to, not a part of the break lease fee. Remember, I gave 60 day notice in May. I paid for June and July already to pay rent for those 60 days. I understand your point for renting in August because my break lease payment doesn't entitle me to live there through September. But that point goes against you wanting to side with a tenant and not a landlord.

Re: Security Deposit Refund Issue by NY-LL on June 19, 2012 @23:50	[ Reply ]

The landlord is legally entitled to re-rent the premise once the tenant has legally vacated the premises. The tenant has legally vacated the premises once the tenant surrenders the keys to the landlord, abandoned the premises, been officially evicted by a court of law. In this case, the tenant will surrender the keys at move-out on or before July 1, 2012. If the tenant retains possession of the premises by not surrendering the keys, the tenant will have violated the sixty (60) days advance notice in order to vacate using the break lease clause and will be legally responsible for another month's rent, according to the signed lease agreement which the tenant intends to violate. Think this is a fabricated post. Think the poster is fabricating contrived responses to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for the most monotonous posts to one message board!

Re: Security Deposit Refund Issue by Anonymous on June 20, 2012 @08:08	[ Reply ]

Think this is a fabricated post. Think the poster is fabricating contrived responses to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for the most monotonous posts to one message board! YES! You seem to try to answer everybody's post with your contrived responses.

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Re: Security Deposit Refund Issue by Anonymous on June 20, 2012 @08:43	[ Reply ]

You really don't comprehend what the situation here is, do you? I haven't changed it once. I gave him 60 days in mid May. That means I have to pay for June and July, correct? Yes. So if I hold on to the keys until 7/31, I am not violating any lease agreement or 60 day notice. The landlord here, knowing I am being transferred to start work 7/2 in another state, is assuming I'll be out earlier than that because I did tell him I would be leaving next week. Do I know for a fact he has a signed lease for 7/1? No. I do know he is advertising it available 7/1 online, however. I also know he is showing people the neighborhood, yet he hasn't contacted us to show the unit, because he knows it's shady. I can't believe you landlords see NOTHING wrong with what this guy is doing. I see plenty wrong with me breaking the lease earlier. That's why all this money is being paid to him already. If I saw nothing wrong with it, I'd just up and leave and leave him to his own demise. It's when one thing comes up after another that he wants more money for me breaking this lease because he knows my company is paying for it that pisses me off. He's a greedy SOB that thinks he's stepped into a cash machine and he has to grab all he can in those 30 seconds. For those who think this is fake, I guarantee you it's not. Face it, you have greedy landlords out there. I'm just trying to mitigate my company's damages like he should be trying to mitigate his, not profit handsomely off of it.

Re: Security Deposit Refund Issue by Anonymous on June 20, 2012 @00:01	[ Reply ]

Do you know for a fact, as in there is a signed lease with a tenant who has given deposit, that he has already rented the apartment for July? Security deposits can be used for money owed on a lease agreement in some states. It is not always strictly limited to only physical damages to the property. You would need to look up your state's laws to find out what your state says concerning the deposit. Either way, you need to decide once and for all what you want to do and then do whatever it is you are going to do. Either leave to your other home and put this behind you or continue to drag it out for the last few days/weeks and complicate the issues more and more and more by doing things on purpose now just to be a hard ass and create a pissing contest and have all this follow you to your new home. What purpose would it serve? What purpose does it serve to keep calling the LL and trying to come up with different deals once one has already been agreed upon? Have the company pay the $600 or don't. Tell the landlord that you are staying through July or hand over the keys at the end of June and be done with it. Either way pick a direction and do it and deal with whatever outcomes stem from it. Going back and forth on this board trying to convince other people who disagree with your view that you are right is pointless. You will only agree and listen to the posters that write what you already have set in your mind is correct anyway.

Re: Security Deposit Refund Issue by Anonymous on June 20, 2012 @16:50	[ Reply ]

Ohhhhh, I agree with this anon poster, just above my post here!

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