Well as some of you may recall , due to a pay cut with a 3 day notice (3.00 an hr.at that ) I was forced to stay at the same complex but smaller, cheaper apt for 6 more months.
I now have a large problem that I had a bad feeling was coming and its here .
Again as some may recall I had a carpet problem last fall
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It was fixed and I also offered to pay for an entire room of new carpet as well.. still will if they want it, Carpet is 2 yrs. From the time I admitted to the landlord it had a burn mark , she was just GUNNING for an entire 3 bd apt of new carpet on MY dime. Well the carpet looked great so she couldnt do the burn mark method.
So...
I went in for my walk through upon move out with an associate, she complimented the whole apt plus told me how great the carpet looked even asking if it was new when I moved in (it wasnt) AND said do not worry the complex had already used up their budget for entire apt recarpets for the year, so that wasnt going to happen . That was at 11 am, I signed off on it...by 6 pm the manager was banging on my door of the new apt saying the ENTIRE CARPET WAS WET and had BLACK MOLD ALL UNDER IT . no freaking way was that carpet wet. I denied this to her face and she asked to see my husband in the office. He went .
She told him the wetness/black mold story , he said no way also and how would she expect him to peel up the carpet and look,,, also reminding her that our move in last year was delayed 2 weeks due to having to tear out walls and peel up existing carpet due to MOLD using fans to dry it out ( we looked in the windows and saw this ) . She then changed her story and said it was because we kept the heater on all the time ?? how would she know? ..he said no ,, sorry , she then changed it AGAIN saying it was because we had furniture againt the wall . He said he wasnt going to argue with her anymore that he'd surely see the bill and left .. They have charged us $1000 for a whole new carpet . taking $500 off by taking our deposit leaving us with owing $500. I can pay or I can dispute .. this makes me SO MAD.... I dont want a bad record.
What they dont know is that we took very carefull pics of everything ,every room from every angle after we cleaned and vacuumed . The place is immaculate .No mold anywhere . Carpets beautiful . Its on my phone showing time and date. I dont know whether to pay slowly over the 6 months or Dispute. I have 30 days to dispute in writing. I can't afford $500 all at once. Plus there was no way we were going to rip up the carpets to look underneath,, off the tack strips etc ..Never would have thought of doing that really.
I NEVER want to live here again , and I want to make sure I can leave in 6 months and one day . Also I am afraid like I was before because they enjoy handing out no cause evictions here and alot of tennants are afraid of the manager because of it. Not sure which is best route.
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