ok kind of a long story but i will try and abridge the parts that i can.
So my wife moved out of her old apartment like 3 months ag because we got a town house when we got married. I am sure most of you are familiar with the whole "check out of your apartment" routine, and she had to do all that. The manager was a real piece of work and had like OCD about cleaning because when she came to check things out she made my wife scrub the baseboards with a toothbrush.
Anyways she goes thru the check out process, and during that they are supposed to tell you any damages that are going to be covered by your security deposit. The only things that were pointed out to my wife were some "shadows" on the walls from where she had pictues/mirrors hanging up. They could have been caused from burning candles or any room that has sunlight going into it, when you take pictures down there are going to be coloration differences where the pictures were hanging, which to my understanding qualifies as "normal wear and tear." So the manager of course points those out and my wife scrubbed and scrubbed but couldnt get them off. She was told that they would probably have to be painted over but it would be no big deal because it was only 3 spots and the touch up work wouldnt be expensive. So she signed the paper and checked my wife out. We told her just to let us know ASAP what the cost would be or whatever for the painting.
So like 3 months go by and they make no real attempt to get a hold of us. My wife finally decides to call them just to get things squared away and she is told that we had a to pay $900 or else she was taking us to collections the very next day. So my wife calls me and I about crap a brick. I talk to the manager and ask WTF, and she says that afterwards the owner went thru and found all sorts of "additional" damages, none of which were pointed out byt the manager in the checking out process and none of which were documented on the sheet my wife and the manager signed. She said that there was smoke damage in EVERY room because when we burned candles it got into the AC and therefore damaged the entire apartment. After a nice good convo with her it boiled down to her saying that we had to pay the cost of repainting the ENTIRE apartment along with a bunch of other bogus fees that just popped up all of the sudden.
So, I am not one of those people that trys to get out of paying for things, but this really feels like we are getting taken advantage of, and that these people are just looking for a free paint job. They already moved new tenants in, so right there it shows that the paint job really wasn't that big of a deal. Anyways, any advice or suggestions would be nice. I am at the point right now where I am ready to take it to court because I dont want my credit to get screwed by being sent to collections.
So my wife moved out of her old apartment like 3 months ag because we got a town house when we got married. I am sure most of you are familiar with the whole "check out of your apartment" routine, and she had to do all that. The manager was a real piece of work and had like OCD about cleaning because when she came to check things out she made my wife scrub the baseboards with a toothbrush.
Anyways she goes thru the check out process, and during that they are supposed to tell you any damages that are going to be covered by your security deposit. The only things that were pointed out to my wife were some "shadows" on the walls from where she had pictues/mirrors hanging up. They could have been caused from burning candles or any room that has sunlight going into it, when you take pictures down there are going to be coloration differences where the pictures were hanging, which to my understanding qualifies as "normal wear and tear." So the manager of course points those out and my wife scrubbed and scrubbed but couldnt get them off. She was told that they would probably have to be painted over but it would be no big deal because it was only 3 spots and the touch up work wouldnt be expensive. So she signed the paper and checked my wife out. We told her just to let us know ASAP what the cost would be or whatever for the painting.
So like 3 months go by and they make no real attempt to get a hold of us. My wife finally decides to call them just to get things squared away and she is told that we had a to pay $900 or else she was taking us to collections the very next day. So my wife calls me and I about crap a brick. I talk to the manager and ask WTF, and she says that afterwards the owner went thru and found all sorts of "additional" damages, none of which were pointed out byt the manager in the checking out process and none of which were documented on the sheet my wife and the manager signed. She said that there was smoke damage in EVERY room because when we burned candles it got into the AC and therefore damaged the entire apartment. After a nice good convo with her it boiled down to her saying that we had to pay the cost of repainting the ENTIRE apartment along with a bunch of other bogus fees that just popped up all of the sudden.
So, I am not one of those people that trys to get out of paying for things, but this really feels like we are getting taken advantage of, and that these people are just looking for a free paint job. They already moved new tenants in, so right there it shows that the paint job really wasn't that big of a deal. Anyways, any advice or suggestions would be nice. I am at the point right now where I am ready to take it to court because I dont want my credit to get screwed by being sent to collections.
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