Comment on United Scams of Assholes
Thrashy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The management agency that leased the house I lived in while I was in college tried to withhold our security deposit because we didn’t provide proof of carpet cleaning.
The house had all hardwood floors.
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They gave me an itemized receipt where carpet cleaning was the only item on the receipt when I moved out of a place with wood floors. I actually recorded the whole final walk through with the person from the company walking through saying that it was perfectly clean and that I should get my whole deposit back.
When I complained, they said that it wasn’t carpet cleaning, it was just regular cleaning billed as carpet cleaning. I said I would take it to small claims court, but I never told them about the recording.
They decided to refund me just enough that the money they kept was equal to the cost of filing a small claims suit.
jkrtn@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Is the cost of filing not added on to what you can receive?
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Maybe, but it wouldn’t be a fast process or guaranteed, so I didn’t risk it.