My exroomate left a mess at the apartment and we got charged $300 for cleaning ($417 total damage). Now this guy is a pig, he literally lived surrounded by trash and boxes. He had never once cleaned anything in the apartment, not even vacumming. Now we lived there for 2 years, just imagine how bad things were.
However he promised to clean the kitchen and even circled that room on the cleaning checklist we recieved from the landlord. To get him to agree I had to take the bathroom, the dirtiest room in the apartment. The bathroom was 10X worst than the kitchen, it had urine stains embedded on the toilet, hardwater stains in the tub, the toilet bowl, and the sink, it had hairs everywhere, and soot from the open window covering everything. It was a disaster; but me with the help of my parents and some industrial strength chemicals and a whole lot of scrubbing turned it into the cleanest room in the apartment. As a token of good faith I personally vacummed the whole apartment before I moved out; yes even his room.
This week I recieved a letter from the landlord with some harsh language. "It looked like you didn't do any cleaning when you moved out. The kitchen had a lot of grease from cooking on the walls near the stove, on and in the stove, and the cabinets. The counter top, floor and refrigerator also needed cleaning." With language like this I don't see how the roomate can truthfully claim he cleaned ANYTHING. He told me to take it up with the landlord. I did, he said 85% of the damages were just from the kitchen.
Ofcourse the roomate isn't returning my calls, so now I've decided need to sue him. He is actively lying to me, and my parents, and not returning my calls. This is clear disrespect! I'm only asking for $150 back from him, not much if you ask me. But since I have to sue him I'm going to throw in the court fees, and process service fees, per rules of the contract we signed when we moved.
Its a pity I can't sue for punitive damages in small claims court, there is clearly damage to my character in the eyes of the landlord (I want to rent from them again with a new roomate) and the lying!!! What else can I do to him to make his live more of a pain?
However he promised to clean the kitchen and even circled that room on the cleaning checklist we recieved from the landlord. To get him to agree I had to take the bathroom, the dirtiest room in the apartment. The bathroom was 10X worst than the kitchen, it had urine stains embedded on the toilet, hardwater stains in the tub, the toilet bowl, and the sink, it had hairs everywhere, and soot from the open window covering everything. It was a disaster; but me with the help of my parents and some industrial strength chemicals and a whole lot of scrubbing turned it into the cleanest room in the apartment. As a token of good faith I personally vacummed the whole apartment before I moved out; yes even his room.
This week I recieved a letter from the landlord with some harsh language. "It looked like you didn't do any cleaning when you moved out. The kitchen had a lot of grease from cooking on the walls near the stove, on and in the stove, and the cabinets. The counter top, floor and refrigerator also needed cleaning." With language like this I don't see how the roomate can truthfully claim he cleaned ANYTHING. He told me to take it up with the landlord. I did, he said 85% of the damages were just from the kitchen.
Ofcourse the roomate isn't returning my calls, so now I've decided need to sue him. He is actively lying to me, and my parents, and not returning my calls. This is clear disrespect! I'm only asking for $150 back from him, not much if you ask me. But since I have to sue him I'm going to throw in the court fees, and process service fees, per rules of the contract we signed when we moved.
Its a pity I can't sue for punitive damages in small claims court, there is clearly damage to my character in the eyes of the landlord (I want to rent from them again with a new roomate) and the lying!!! What else can I do to him to make his live more of a pain?
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