Well This Kind Of Sucks

[LadyKay]

I will try to be short and get the the point. My husband and I rented a small 2 bedroom house 3 months ago with a month to month leas and a $500.00 deposit. Last month we gave our 30 day notice that we were moving at the end of the month. So we moved on Saturday. We had to put up a $500.00 deposit which we where told would be return to us if no major damage was caused to the house. When we moved in 3 months ago we had a water softener that we wanted to take with us. The thing was, the rental house did not have the plumping needed to install the water softener. My husband asked if we could have the water soften installed at our expense. We would pay for all that needed to be done to install the water softener. ( my husband really likes the water softener). The landlord gave use permission to have the soften installed as long as we paid for it all. So.....We had the Culligan man to come out and look the place over. In the room that the water softener was to be installed was a small laundry room with one of them plastic utility sinks. The room was so small that the Culligan man said he would need to remove the utility sink in order to install the soften. The landlord was there when he explain all of this and gave the okay to have it done. So at our expense, we had the rental house plump to have a water softener. So any other renters after us or the landlord would want to have a water softener put in, all they would have to do is hook up a softener without having to pay for any plumping to be done. So we moved out on Saturday and took our soften with us. But while we were still there in the house on moving day, the landlord was showing the house to someone who was interesting in renting the place. I was there when this was going on and I heard her tell the person interesting in renting the house that the laundry room was plump for a water softener. So the landlord was using the fact that we had put in the plumping so that a soften could be hooked up as a selling point to the potential renter. So anyway, the renter looking at the house deiced they would rent the place. I turn in my keys on Saturday and was told to stop by on Monday and that they would write me a check for the $500.00 deposit. SO I stop by there this after noon. I was then told by the landlord that they were going to withhold the deposit check because the utility sink had been taken out. And that they will have to pay a plumper to come in and reinstall it. (Though if they do so, and the new rented wants to put in a water softener which they were told that the place was plump for; the unity sink will have to be taken out again). So they reinstalling the utility sink would be kind of a wast of time and money. I just think it sucks because the gave us the go ahead to plump the laundry room for a water softener. And they also used the fact that they place was plump for water softener as a selling point to the new renter. What we did by having the place plump for a water softener that we paid for our self improved the place. Especially if they are going to use that fact as a selling point to a renter. I think the money we spent to have the place plump for a softer makes up for the lose of a plastic utility sink . And again the utility sink is pointless to reinstall if it only will need to be taken out again if their new renter wants to hook up a water softener. So I think it kind of sucks to loss a rent deposit because we did something that add and was used as a selling point to a rental house.

Edited July 26, 2011 by LadyKay

[Troy Spiral (13)]

I will try to be short and get the the point. My husband and I rented a small 2 bedroom house 3 months ago with a month to month leas and a $500.00 deposit. Last month we gave our 30 day notice that we were moving at the end of the month. So we moved on Saturday. We had to put up a $500.00 deposit which we where told would be return to us if no major damage was caused to the house. When we moved in 3 months ago we had a water softener that we wanted to take with us. The thing was, the rental house did not have the plumping needed to install the water softener. My husband asked if we could have the water soften installed at our expense. We would pay for all that needed to be done to install the water softener. ( my husband really likes the water softener). The landlord gave use permission to have the soften installed as long as we paid for it all. So.....We had the Culligan man to come out and look the place over. In the room that the water softener was to be installed was a small laundry room with one of them plastic utility sinks. The room was so small that the Culligan man said he would need to remove the utility sink in order to install the soften. The landlord was there when he explain all of this and gave the okay to have it done. So at our expense, we had the rental house plump to have a water softener. So any other renters after us or the landlord would want to have a water softener put in, all they would have to do is hook up a softener without having to pay for any plumping to be done. So we moved out on Saturday and took our soften with us. But while we were still there in the house on moving day, the landlord was showing the house to someone who was interesting in renting the place. I was there when this was going on and I heard her tell the person interesting in renting the house that the laundry room was plump for a water softener. So the landlord was using the fact that we had put in the plumping so that a soften could be hooked up as a selling point to the potential renter. So anyway, the renter looking at the house deiced they would rent the place. I turn in my keys on Saturday and was told to stop by on Monday and that they would write me a check for the $500.00 deposit. SO I stop by there this after noon. I was then told by the landlord that they were going to withhold the deposit check because the utility sink had been taken out. And that they will have to pay a plumper to come in and reinstall it. (Though if they do so, and the new rented wants to put in a water softener which they were told that the place was plump for; the unity sink will have to be taken out again). So they reinstalling the utility sink would be kind of a wast of time and money. I just think it sucks because the gave us the go ahead to plump the laundry room for a water softener. And they also used the fact that they place was plump for water softener as a selling point to the new renter. What we did by having the place plump for a water softener that we paid for our self improved the place. Especially if they are going to use that fact as a selling point to a renter. I think the money we spent to have the place plump for a softer makes up for the lose of a plastic utility sink . And again the utility sink is pointless to reinstall if it only will need to be taken out again if their new renter wants to hook up a water softener. So I think it kind of sucks to loss a rent deposit because we did something that add and was used as a selling point to a rental house.

Irritating. No good deed goes unpunished.

I can see the "technical" argument for having to put the utility sink back in, but it just seems lame / disingenuous on the landlords part. *shakes fist*

[taysteewonderbunny]

Just goes to show that if you make any modifications to a unit and the landlord agrees, you must get it in writing that the landlord agreed to the modification and can NOT hold you in any indemnity for further expenses related to that modification. You can try to take it to small claims, but as it is only a verbal agreement, though that has weight in legal agreements, it will be a he said / she said sort of thing and you will have to hope the judge feels kindly toward you.

Landlords are in the business of making money. Always get things in writing, and make sure you know what every part of the agreement means.

[LadyKay]

The landlord called me today and decided to return my deposit to me. So it looks like things got worked out. Thanks for reading my complaint. Now I can take my daughter school shopping. First grade this year!

[prick]

Im glad it worked out for ya.

[havoc]

glad it worked out 500 is a lot of moola theese days