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Old 11-27-2007, 02:31 AM
riverspecialist riverspecialist is offline
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Default Re: Land lord is jacking my deposit!

(Heres the background)
At the signing of the lease i ask about a section that says $50/night for guests. I says "woah wha?" she says as long as no one is here for over 10 days, this is standard i guess.

The place has a hot tub that hasnt been used in a while. I fill it. Doesnt work. We drain it and get it repaired refill it and I start using/loving it.

A month later she says "zomg, the water bill shot up $260 and the lectric bill is gone up too." (beyond what u would expect from a tennant. I dont know much about this sort of thing so i tell her ill pay for it if it turns out these are reasonable. Rather than hold money fromt he deposit she actually askes for extra cash which i denied. (shady?!)

Eventually i look up the cost of water and find that it would cost less than $20 to fill the hot tub twice and that the jump in bill was probably because of a leak. I tell her this but she keeps getting mad and runs away when i try to talk to her about it (she lives on the property). There is deffinte tension.

Nearing the end of the lease and i ask her what she is planning to do with my deposit she says im not getting much back shes keeping $650 for guests (this would be wrong even if she did charge $50/night extra) and keeping $300 for the electric but i should be happy cause im prob getting something back ($50?)

I email her the URL for the prices of water online. This still doesnt convince her. I think her new boyfriend set her straight or something.

Anyway, my lease ends tomorrow and i have a flight that leaves at 2pm. What should I do? I keep trying to talk to her but she wont answer my phonecalls and acts like shes not home.

I think she has big plans to go on vacation or something tomorrow with her new boy and she has new tennants she wants to move in asap.

What if i just refuse to leave until i get my deposit back? What could happen legally? What are my option?

(I live in pittsburgh and make to much $/hr bother going to court for this)
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