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    Default Re: Is a Tenant Obligated to Remind Maintenance That Repairs Need to Be Made

    I didn't say anything about the maintenance worker. I said if YOU didn't document the issue....

    YOU need to notate it on your personal calendar.
    YOU need to send a written letter to the landlord concerning the issue, and keep a copy for yourself

    thats nkt doing anybody else's work. That's doing what it takes to prove your claims. Without that, plan on the landlord thinking you never said a word and may charge you for damages due to your failure to report an issue that requires attention.

    imagine this; you're in court telling the judge your story. You say you told maintenance. They don't have record of it. Gee, did you really tell maintenance? You explain your beating on the door story. They deny it. Hmm, maybe tenant is full of crap.

    Or


    you tell your story. You show a log of communications with the landlord. You present a copy of the letter you sent the landlord, dated and noting the date you sent the letter, the address you sent it to, and how you sent it.


    Care to guess in which incident you win and which you lose? It isn't difficult to figure out that you need to cover your ass in situations like this. Your failure and your attitude will lead to failure in court.

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    Default Re: Is a Tenant Obligated to Remind Maintenance That Repairs Need to Be Made

    You're not even reading what was written You're just misdirecting your own anger on me Real grown up of you...
    Oh, I read the whole thing. I bled from the eyes a little bit but I made it to the bitter end. It's almost all irrelevant. I'm not angry. I don't care about you even a little bit so how could you, an anonymous voice, anger me?

    The 2nd was answered...
    I didn't dismantle anything really. It was falling apart. They used the wrong part and the water pressure cracked the plastic nut. It soaked everything to the point it was falling apart. The sides of the drawers were this thin plywood. They were so wet they just were falling off the rails and off the faces. So I just pulled them off the face all together. It wasn't so much cut and dry me dismantling anything. It was either have mold or don't have mold.
    Dismantling. I get it, you live in a rathole. Don't think that's going to get you off the hook.

    Nah, maintenance was made aware. It's not on me to do their job for them. If they didn't write it down that's on them. I was informed by a lawyer here all I am obligated to do is tell them. What they do with the information after is up to them. Which is the logical thing anyway.
    This is my favorite part, really. If there is no record that maintenance was made aware, and as you're the one to lose out especially in the face of such serious damage as destroyed cabinets and laminate, I don't really care where in that apartment, they'll keep your deposit. Laminate lasts a long time, bub. The laminate that was in my kitchen before I moved, and for 8 years after was gold flecked laminate from the 1960's. It peeling won't be viewed as "wear and tear.

    But what are you asking us for? You asked an attorney! You have all the answers you need. Is this the attorney you'll hire to help you get your deposit back? If I were them and faced with the damage that you describe and no record of communications regarding said damage I'd withhold your deposit. Hell, I have a lawyer on retainer, maybe even on staff if I'm a large real estate management firm, go for it!

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