Forum Archive: Posts by: hotelcharliebravo

Thank you all in advance for your help, I greatly appreciate any advice.

My wife and I recently left a 2 bedroom apartment in Park Slope after living there for 1 year. Our rent was $3200 per month, the security deposit was $6400.

The landlord just returned our security deposit – minus $2500 for damages.

The apartment was in good condition when we left. I even went to the trouble of spackling over the holes where we hung pictures. I filmed the walkthrough with a video camera – the apartment looks immaculate.

However, in my landlord’s opinion, the apartment was dirty. Because of the work I did (filling the holes from hanging pictures), he said he had to have the entire place painted.

Also, he accused me of damaging the floors – ancient wide plank pine which were in mediocre shape when we moved in.

Here are the charges, no receipts were included.

Labor – $900
Supplies $160
Floor – $525

I was also charged for damage in the hallway. Our movers scratched the walls and the bannister in a few places- this cost us $800 in labor and $135 in supplies.

He also charged us $300 for carpet outside our door – I never noticed a problem there and it wasn’t pointed out in the walkthrough.

I believe we were overcharged for normal wear and tear.

Also, we endured construction for several months on renovations to the apartment beneath us (all of which was done without permits, by the way). This is why I doubt there will be receipts.

What do I do? Needless to say our landlord has issues, it’s really sad actually and it’s almost worth eating $2500 to never have to deal with him again, but I have a strong sense of right and wrong and this is simply wrong.

Thanks,

HCB