Posts Tagged ‘rental’

Only Recourse May Be Small Claims; Do It If You Must

Monday, October 13th, 2008

If you have moved out from your apartment, and you feel that your deposit was not fairly refunded, you may be perfectly in the right to demand a refund of your money, if it’s a difficult procedure to get it back.

Here are a few scenarios, and the ways in which you can get your money back.
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Cleaning Costs Blown Out of the Water… By Craig’s List?

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

From the very beginning (of the end) I contested the cleaning costs from when I moved out of my mediocre pad at Heatherwood Apartments in South Everett. I wasn’t resistant to the charges because I’m cheap, but because I know the difference between clean and dirty. My mom is a neat freak and she raised me to be one as just like her. When it came time to move-out, I was slapped with a fat cleaning bill, and I couldn’t believe it… well, I could, but not because the apartment wasn’t clean.
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Garage Discount Mistruth and Follow-up Failure to Disclose

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

When we first moved in, there was a flier in the lobby that had an offer pretty good to entice us to accept a garage unit. We didn’t need one, but we had a few things that needed to go into storage, and since the Pathfinder didn’t have a working lock on the back hatch, we figured it might be worth the while.

We didn’t take the flier, but we both remembered it saying that the first month was free. Apparently, not the case.
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