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    Default Can a Landlord Charge Copayments on Repairs

    My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Florida

    I just received the letter from our former landlord imposing a claim. First we did met the landlords agent on April 30 5:30, at their request for a walk through after about 3 years of renting , lease ended May 1. We thought she would go through and look ant things, all she did was ask for the keys. The damages include , cleaning which I know is subjective but everything was cleaned, mopped floors, cleaned oven, sinks, toilets everything. charged for some painting, and wall repairs, any small nail holes from pictures were filled, and painting? we ere there 3 years and it wasn't painted when we moved in. the had a molding that they said was missing and never existed as far as i know. there was a leak in a sink that they were told and was never fixed and warped the wood base under it. I dont agree with any of that but the biggest problem is they charged a "co payment" for work that was done over the 3 years.

    Vinyl flooring that they were told was bad at move in was tiled, and was charged $100, job was preformed in September 2016. The contractor did a bad job and some tiles cracked and they returned to replace them, Oct 2016, another $100. Air conditioner needed to be replaced, Nov 2017, another $100. washer and dryer replaced Sept 2016, another $100. All this when we moved out April 30, 2018. If they are doing a "copayment" can it be billed years after the fact? I am asking for accounting, invoices, and pictures on the cleaning ect and an getting our move in report too showing some of the isues that were their before we moved in.

    The thing that got me most mad is the copayments. are they even legal? I was told that even if you wanted to add them to a lease in WI that it is not legal, I am looking to see if it was in the lease I need to go through boxes as we just moved. I think the new tenant moved in May 1 in the AM so i dont know how they could have done anything they said anyways before the move in

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    Default Re: Co Payments on Repairs

    Quote Quoting chuckapro
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    I am looking to see if it was in the lease I need to go through boxes as we just moved.
    I suggest you find it and then come back and discuss it. No sense in addressing your issues without the lease in front of you.

    Meantime, you can study up on the FL landlord tenant statutes (which are much different than WI).

    http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/...entsIndex.html

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    Default Re: Co Payments on Repairs

    Well he does have something in there about it, I obviously was stupid to sign it without really looking. But if they are going to charge, shouldn't it be done at the time and not years later? We have signed updated amendments to the original lease as we extended the original lease, 3 times to be exact. Shouldn't they also have some obligation to tell me when work is done that I owe or will owe at move out the money? Also they charged for the washer and dryer which they asked if I could install which if they would have had to hire someone it would have cost them. I was charged 2 times for tile work. The tile was installed and a few weeks later we informed them that they did a poor job of installing as a number of tiles had cracked. The guy came back, replaced the broken tiles, complained about his inexperienced worker, and that was that. Even if i would owe for the first job, I shouldn't have to pay a second time when I am sure they didn't pay anything for the repair for bad workmanship. When they redid the tiles they changed the toilets, which we never mentioned, and there was no problem with, and were charged 100 for that. Also, this year one of the burners form the 30 year old range burned out. They asked me to go to home depot and pick one up to replace it which was no problem. They told me to email the receipt and they would reimburse me for it which they did. If I was liable for up to $100 for repairs to the range, why would they repay me for $20 to replace the burner.

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    Default Re: Co Payments on Repairs

    Sorry, too many whats, ifs, and maybes.

    If you feel that the charges were unwarranted your option is small claims court.

    I have no way of predicting if you'll be successful on any point but maybe just filing the lawsuit will bring the LL to negotiate something.

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