Re:On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't
by bluGill on Monday March 01, 2021 @08:41AM
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In the US you can sue for anything. Smart landlords only confirm that someone lived there, and other easily verifiable information, since if they sometimes give a good reference and sometimes neutral that means neutral references are bad and they can be sued for that. If you get a anything more as reference from a landlord it is because you were bad enough that the landlord sued and won (it is safe to assume this never happens, though there are exceptions)
Don't confuse suing with winning. You can sue someone and lose, but the lawyers will still cost both sides a lot of money.
Re:On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't
by Hard_Space on Monday March 01, 2021 @08:22AM
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In reality (in the UK), those references precede your current landlord getting to check your apartment's condition out. By the time the landlord has ascertained the state of the property, the reference has usually been given.
Also deposits are always(by law) held by a third party in escrow, and it's actually a bit of a pain to claim any money from that as a landlord, so it's really rare that people lose their deposits unless the place is absolutely wrecked.