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Read up on what your state laws require the landlord to do before witholding money from your deposit. Many states require that the landlord provide a written itemized statement of deductions be mailed to you within 30 days of the end of your lease. If they do not do that they are not entitled to withhold anything. You may have to sue in small claims court to get your deposit back but you will prevail and the judge may award additional damages.
Read up on what your state laws require the landlord to do before witholding money from your deposit. Many states require that the landlord provide a written itemized statement of deductions be mailed to you within 30 days of the end of your lease. If they do not do that they are not entitled to withhold anything. You may have to sue in small claims court to get your deposit back but you will prevail and the judge may award additional damages.
Clarification, in my state, TX, it is 30 days after you turn the keys in.
If you're throwing your trash into the compactor (like you're supposed to) there's no way to get it out unless you climb inside.
Anyone who leaves their trash outside their door, on the ground next to the compactor or on the stairs going to the compactor, deserve to be charged for it's removal.
No what I think he is getting at is you can fill out an envelope with the persons name on it and put it into your own trash and leave it by the compactor.
Wow, this must the be first time I actually agree with Kim.
I honestly don't know how idiots like this survive this long.
We have the same problem in our condo building, but the idiots on the condo board will do nothing about it! The maintenance staff are too nice to do anything. Every floor has a small room and a trash chute in that room, for some reason, some folks think that it's okay to just leave their trash in that little room instead of OMG, pulling the trash chute open and placing their trash inside.
So the next time someone left their festering trash in the room, I got gloves and a mask, and opened it up and went through it, found their room number, and places the trash back against their door with a note that said "Are you mentally retarded? Do you need someone to give you instructions on how to dispose of your trash?"
The trash was never left in the room again.
That's awesome! I lived in an apartment with a trash chute years ago, and at least 1/3rd of the tenants left their trash sitting by the chute. WTF?!
No what I think he is getting at is you can fill out an envelope with the persons name on it and put it into your own trash and leave it by the compactor.
I'm sure they have a bit more sense than to choose hand written letters... I'm sure they look for bills, magazines, anything that comes with the name and address printed on it.
I'm sure they have a bit more sense than to choose hand written letters... I'm sure they look for bills, magazines, anything that comes with the name and address printed on it.
Some people do own computers and printers you know
We had a trash chute in my building, but the set-up was really stupid. Below the trash chute was just one regular sized garbage can. There are 3 more garbage cans next to that one, but the chute only went down to the one.
Of course, the tenants had no idea that there was an enormous mess in the garbage shed below the chute from all the overflow. We finally sealed up the chute.
Then I had tenants who would pile recyclable items around the garbage cans, expecting the recycle fairy (me) to magically send them to recycle heaven. The owner was too cheap to pay for the recycling bins, which were an extra fee. So, I just took the recycle piles and put them in the garbage cans. I don't know what else they expected would happen. But, getting me to do it assuaged their guilt over not actually taking their recycling to the recycling center, I guess.
The city finally made recycling bins manadatory, so the tenants do actually put their recycling in the recycling bins now.
We had a trash chute in my building, but the set-up was really stupid. Below the trash chute was just one regular sized garbage can. There are 3 more garbage cans next to that one, but the chute only went down to the one.
Of course, the tenants had no idea that there was an enormous mess in the garbage shed below the chute from all the overflow. We finally sealed up the chute.
Then I had tenants who would pile recyclable items around the garbage cans, expecting the recycle fairy (me) to magically send them to recycle heaven. The owner was too cheap to pay for the recycling bins, which were an extra fee. So, I just took the recycle piles and put them in the garbage cans. I don't know what else they expected would happen. But, getting me to do it assuaged their guilt over not actually taking their recycling to the recycling center, I guess.
The city finally made recycling bins manadatory, so the tenants do actually put their recycling in the recycling bins now.
I was outside at a bus stop one day and noticed that some houses had their recycling out on trash day (instead of the recycling schedule). I watched the garbarge guys going up and down the street dumping the garbarge AND the recycling into their truck. I wonder how much time people spend sorting that trash for "recycling" and how long they'd been doing it?!
I was outside at a bus stop one day and noticed that some houses had their recycling out on trash day (instead of the recycling schedule). I watched the garbarge guys going up and down the street dumping the garbarge AND the recycling into their truck. I wonder how much time people spend sorting that trash for "recycling" and how long they'd been doing it?!
In Europe that's going on for years...high taxes to pay for all the separation of trash and when the trucks dump it...it ends up on the same dump place!!!!
Yeah, our recycle bins are one size fits all, everything goes in the same bin. I just really can't picture a bunch of workers sorting through all that stuff and separating it all. It even seems kind of dangerous - broken glass, sharp metal objects. I wonder what really happens with it all.
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I lived in an apartment with a trash chute years ago, and at least 1/3rd of the tenants left their trash sitting by the chute. WTF?! 
I'm sure they look for bills, magazines, anything that comes with the name and address printed on it.
