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Originally Posted by bentobox34
That's strange... as a tenant, those expenses have been taken out of MY deposit every time I have switched apartments!
My landlord/landlady just spent the entirety of the months of June and July touring Europe. I don't get the impression they are doing too bad at all...
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I haven't rented in ages but I thought general wear and tear was part of doing business. When the tenant left, if the apartment was "clean", as in not trashed, and the carpet wasn't filthy and stained or burned, fixing nail holes in the walls, repainting or touching up, doing a general clean and cleaning carpet was just a matter of course and not taken out of your security deposit.
The first place we left we got our deposit back in it's entirety, and the second place -- well, she was such a harridan we were lucky to get out with our sanity. Losing the security deposit was a given.... and we didn't care.