Re:Teen Creates “Sit with Us” App for Bullied Kids
by alasdair_ on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @04:42PM
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I too have had a California landlord have "the temerity to withhold my entire security deposit and ask me for more to pay for expenses that are explicitly the landlord's under California law" and started the process to take him to small claims court.
I started legal proceedings too. I went to a "traditional" school, so I think you are perhaps reading too much into things.
As an aside, I recommend asking for receipts for all of the expenses they are claiming and keeping track of the deadlines for the provision of paperwork. In my case, the landlord had 21 days to provide receipts or they were liable for the FULL deposit. They failed to provide receipts, admitted so in writing and then stopped talking to me entirely for a bit until I pointed out that CA law allows for automatic triple damages for landlords witholding security deposits and that they had already missed their deadline to return the required paperwork to me.
I started legal proceedings too. I went to a "traditional" school, so I think you are perhaps reading too much into things.
As an aside, I recommend asking for receipts for all of the expenses they are claiming and keeping track of the deadlines for the provision of paperwork. In my case, the landlord had 21 days to provide receipts or they were liable for the FULL deposit. They failed to provide receipts, admitted so in writing and then stopped talking to me entirely for a bit until I pointed out that CA law allows for automatic triple damages for landlords witholding security deposits and that they had already missed their deadline to return the required paperwork to me.