Oppo Poll

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch) 07/28/2015 at 17:43 • Filed to: None

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If something in a home you were renting broke while you were in there would you call that normal wear and tear or something that you would expect would be taken from your deposit?

Item in question.

EDIT: no longer care. Had a series of unpleasant texts with the previous tenet about this now (including threats of small claims court). A tenet who left my carpet burned from heating the house with nothing but wood all winter (illegal most the winter in Utah) and wrecking up my gas fireplace he ALSO burned wood in all winter. I chose not to charge him for new carpets but he wants to bicker about $26...screw that guy.

DrJohannVegas > HammerheadFistpunch 07/28/2015 at 17:48

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For most of my landlord history: yep. Hell, if the house burned to the ground after I moved out due to a comet impact, I’d expect it to come out of the deposit.

XJDano > HammerheadFistpunch 07/28/2015 at 17:48

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The kind of person I am. I wold try to fix it myself. Also notify land lord that you did fix it or if you couldn’t & it needs fixed.

My Sister in law & husband whom rent my old house from me would call me and say it broke.

and 100 more > HammerheadFistpunch 07/28/2015 at 17:49

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Wear and tear, but I’d call the landlord and let them know.

E92M3 > HammerheadFistpunch 07/28/2015 at 17:51

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As a landlord I would not charge you for that (unless the door was dented too). Then I would know you took your anger out on it. But I’ve had those shocks break on me before due to age, and a bad design. The metal is too thin where it fastens to the door.

I had one tenant cut holes in the ceiling to run wires for a projector, and couldn’t believe I kept his deposit to fix it. Same guy also kept every light bulb he replaced, and put all the bad ones back in before he moved out.

WesBarton89 - The Way to Santa Fe > HammerheadFistpunch 07/28/2015 at 17:54

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As someone who has both been under a landlord, and acted as a landlord, I don’t think something like that would matter much. Those things are cheap to begin with. I wouldn’t charge you for it unless you were absolutely an A-hole tenant.

ttyymmnn > HammerheadFistpunch 07/28/2015 at 17:55

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I would probably just fix it myself and be done with it.

HammerheadFistpunch > E92M3 07/28/2015 at 18:48

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It was a year old when he moved in and working perfectly, and of high quality design (we’ve had this type before) and it was broken when he moved out, claiming it was broken from day 1.

HammerheadFistpunch > ttyymmnn 07/28/2015 at 18:48

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What I should have done. Oh well.

HammerheadFistpunch > WesBarton89 - The Way to Santa Fe 07/28/2015 at 18:48

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I was thinking about returning his money, but see my edit.

ttyymmnn > HammerheadFistpunch 07/28/2015 at 18:54

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After my wife and I were married, we were renting a condo from a landlord who was mostly overseas. He had a local agent, but for anything under $100 or so I just did it myself and didn’t even tell him. Of course, when the AC blew up and and was a $600 repair, I tried and tried to contact him and his agent then just went ahead and had it fixed. He didn’t seem too upset about it, and he paid me back. But I suppose every landlord is different. Little stuff like that I’d fix. Big stuff like water heaters and AC, those are on the landlord.

HammerheadFistpunch > ttyymmnn 07/28/2015 at 19:00

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I’ve tried to be really good, these guys took advantage of it. When the furnace broke down, I had a guy there in an hour and had it fixed. When they needed an extra day to move out, they got it. They left the place in a bad way in a few places (fireplace, carpets, etc) and flipped the hell out when they I explained that they would have to pay a fee (as opposed to the entire remaining lease amount as was in the contract) to break the contract early cause they found a place they liked better (they ended up riding out the whole lease). When I went in to have the furnace fixed I noticed the walls were COVERED in pinholes and posters as well as a dartboard without a backing, the gas fireplace was in bad shape because he admitted to burning wood in it all winter (“don’t worry we talked to a guy who said it was fine.”). Glad to have them out.

jariten1781 > HammerheadFistpunch 07/28/2015 at 19:02

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I’d be annoyed if I were charged for that but not surprised. A landlord once charged me for refurbing their wood burning stove and hot tub neither of which had worked since the 70s....

HammerheadFistpunch > jariten1781 07/28/2015 at 19:05

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now I agree that those things are out of line, i mostly charged this guy because:

a. i knew it was working when he moved in

b. it was basically brand new (less than a year old...replaced with the snowplow threw a rock at my screen door and trashed the whole thing)

c. He lied to me about several things when he left, including that this was broken since day 1. in fact, given that it wasn’t reported to me it falls outside the scope of the contract and would go back to him anyway...hmm.

That being said, I gave these guys a lot of slack and they walked on me for it.

Rainbow > HammerheadFistpunch 07/28/2015 at 19:21

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Not to be all nit-picky, but... http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tenet

The word you’re looking for is “tenant.”

HammerheadFistpunch > Rainbow 07/28/2015 at 20:07

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Isn’t this exactly to be all nit-picky?

Rainbow > HammerheadFistpunch 07/28/2015 at 20:15

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Maybe. :P It looks more professional, though, if any of them ever see it written out. So there’s that, at least.

HammerheadFistpunch > Rainbow 07/28/2015 at 21:56

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written on phone... but I hear ya.