Subj : Re: Renting
To   : k9zw
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Jun 06 2024 05:54:50

  Re: Re: Renting
  By: k9zw to Nightfox on Thu Jun 06 2024 09:49 am

 > Around universities watch out for the shitty management companies - people
 > will tell you who they are.  Unless you like fighting with expensive
 > attorneys over small sums, they set out to abuse you like as if you were som
 > sort of vassal in teh dark ages.

I've hear so many stories recently about security deposits suddenly becoming cleaning deposits, routine carpet replacement required despite the "normal wear and tear" legal assumptions, landlords saying they replace the carpet after *every* tenant... 
As long as it makes financial sense and they're selling a necessary good (housing), they'll screw their customers over. One or two may send them to small claims court, and they'll grudgingly pay back a deposit (plus interest, oh, how they forget that!) 

But, for every 1 who takes them to task, 9 grin and bear it.

What would it take for deposit grift to become financially untenable, I wonder?

....Am I any closer to finding what I'm looking for?
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