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Default Jul 09, 2020 at 07:22 PM
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No candles??? I love my candles! I’d have hard time with that rule. No holes? That would be insane too.
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No candles??? I love my candles! I’d have hard time with that rule. No holes? That would be insane too.


I actually adhered to the no candles rule for three freaking years. It was hard because I love my candles, too. This past Christmas my son send me a beautiful candle and I finally caved in and used it. I am pretty sure no one here really follows all these rules. I started to use incense occasionally. All the rules are very oppressive.

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Two or three years ago the mirror in my bathroom fell off the medicine cabinet door and shattered on the floor. I still haven't told the landlord.
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Default Jul 14, 2020 at 05:37 AM
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Sometime last year my hot iron fell plate down onto the floor and left it's mark in the carpet, literally. No way to cover that up. The real estate agent and landlady come through this place every six months. Hard to miss this mark.

I told them about it and didn't try to cover it up with a rug. They said they would take it out of the bond whenever I moved out. I have no plans to move out at the moment.
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Default Jul 14, 2020 at 10:57 AM
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The iron is a common damage. They just cut a square of carpet out of the closet or some other hidden area and switch them.
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Two or three years ago the mirror in my bathroom fell off the medicine cabinet door and shattered on the floor. I still haven't told the landlord.


Why didn't you tell them? That is an accident under "ordinary wear and tear" -- it's not like you fell against the mirror or something. They should replace it. You should tell them. It sounds like it wasn't installed correctly. How can you not greet your pretty mug in the morning???

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Sometime last year my hot iron fell plate down onto the floor and left it's mark in the carpet, literally. No way to cover that up. The real estate agent and landlady come through this place every six months. Hard to miss this mark.

I told them about it and didn't try to cover it up with a rug. They said they would take it out of the bond whenever I moved out. I have no plans to move out at the moment.





I dropped a hot skillet on a rental apartment's kitchen floor once and it melted the linoleum. They cut out the damaged part and put in a new piece. Really, you couldn't even tell after they fixed it. I didn't have to pay anything.

I don't know what a "bond" is but also I don't know why you are being made to pay for the damage.

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Default Jul 14, 2020 at 08:49 PM
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In this same apartment I am in now I once dropped my bathroom cup in the sink (china cup, not heavy) and it didn't break...but suddenly I was shocked to see a HUGE HOLE in the sink. I looked this up online. It could have been there was a hairline fracture in the sink when they installed it...and moisture was probably seeping in the hairline crack for awhile.

I filed a work order, then went on vacation. When I came back they had installed an entirely new sink. Of course no charge to me.

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For the next three days I am having workmen in my studio...to tear out the wall, fix the problem, built new wall, paint new wall etc. etc.

I feel a little guilty because maybe the nail I stuck in the wall did it.

On the other hand...if they determine where things should not be hung...they should just add it to the instruction packet at lease signing. There are MANY instructions...how to care for the stainless steel appliance...how to care for the counter tops (who knows what they are made of)...how to care for the laminate flooring. They can just add what walls to not hang things up on.

Modern apartments are called "luxury apartments" but they are fragile pieces of crap. I cannot imagine what this place is going to look like in 20 years.

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Back in the 80's I was living in an east coast city in an old apartment with my boyfriend (future husband) and somebody wall papered the bathroom in this really funky snakeskin pattern.

One night I got into an argument with the boyfriend and kicked a hole in the bathroom wall. OMG! It was serious and right through the wallpaper.

At the time I was a freelance photographer and I also worked at a zoo. I happened to have an 8" by 10" photograph of snake skin! I taped it over the wall...and it was shocking because it matched up perfectly!

We left it like that when we moved out and nothing was ever said! It was art!

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II was the first person to occupy my Texas apartment, I was there 12 years. I put up stuff on the walls and screwed a cat bed onto the picture window but before I left I filled in all the holes. But my cat dug at the carpet to my bedroom and a stick of incense burned an incense line on the carpet but because I'd been there so long it didn't matter as they had to replace the carpet anyway. The cops busted in my door during a "wellness" check but the cops had to pay to fix that.

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Why didn't you tell them? That is an accident under "ordinary wear and tear" -- it's not like you fell against the mirror or something. They should replace it. You should tell them. It sounds like it wasn't installed correctly. How can you not greet your pretty mug in the morning???
I don't like complaining. I like being the tenant who quietly pays his rent on time every month and who causes no problems. I don't even like being seen around the building. The manager once said he doesn't even know whether I'm home or not, and I like that because it means I'm not causing any problems. I use a handheld mirror for shaving and combing and that's fine. I do plan on telling the manager eventually, though.
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II was the first person to occupy my Texas apartment, I was there 12 years. I put up stuff on the walls and screwed a cat bed onto the picture window but before I left I filled in all the holes. But my cat dug at the carpet to my bedroom and a stick of incense burned an incense line on the carpet but because I'd been there so long it didn't matter as they had to replace the carpet anyway. The cops busted in my door during a "wellness" check but the cops had to pay to fix that.


Wow. That's some history. Once I had a homeless person in my neighborhood batter my front door. (Long story.) It had a metal guard on the bottom that got kinda bashed. When they repainted the door (color scheme change) they just replaced the metal guard no questions asked. That does happen when you stay in a place long enough.

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I don't like complaining. I like being the tenant who quietly pays his rent on time every month and who causes no problems. I don't even like being seen around the building. The manager once said he doesn't even know whether I'm home or not, and I like that because it means I'm not causing any problems. I use a handheld mirror for shaving and combing and that's fine. I do plan on telling the manager eventually, though.


Well, I have talked to maintenance guys about the things tenants do in their apartments and believe me your thing is like...not even a thing!!! I wish you WOULD tell your manager to see that you can be a good tenant AND request them to fix things.

Also, consider this. One time a property manager told me that reporting things to be fixed as they happen IS being a good tenant. Because what property managers don't like is a long list of things to do in an apartment after a tenant leaves because the tenant ignored things that needed fixing. I took that advice to heart and now report things as they happen. Accidents are not the same as damage.

In my other story about kicking in the bathroom wall...that was damage!!! It was the only time I caused damage... but I was 23 years old then and I guess just an idiot. Now I would say I am a pretty good tenant.

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I dropped a hot skillet on a rental apartment's kitchen floor once and it melted the linoleum. They cut out the damaged part and put in a new piece. Really, you couldn't even tell after they fixed it. I didn't have to pay anything.

I don't know what a "bond" is but also I don't know why you are being made to pay for the damage.

I am not thinking about what they will do when I move out. In Australia if you rent before moving in you have to pay a bond. The bond is four times the weekly rent which is held in trust for when the tenant moves out. This is to cover any possible unpaid rent or damages. Therefore if my rent is 250 per week I would have to pay $1000 up front and another $500 for the actual rent. If I damage the place then or fall behind in the rent the money is taken out of the bond to compensate the owner.
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I am not thinking about what they will do when I move out. In Australia if you rent before moving in you have to pay a bond. The bond is four times the weekly rent which is held in trust for when the tenant moves out. This is to cover any possible unpaid rent or damages. Therefore if my rent is 250 per week I would have to pay $1000 up front and another $500 for the actual rent. If I damage the place then or fall behind in the rent the money is taken out of the bond to compensate the owner.


Okay. What we have in America is a security deposit...which varies. But same thing. Damage cost would be subtracted from the security deposit. In my experience only unseasoned managers subtract anything. My ex and I once had an owner of a house we rented subtract $200 from the security deposit because they said we didn't dust a few closet shelves, and the toilet wasn't clean enough. That was just plain stealing on their part.

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UPDATE!!! IT WASN'T ME!


Yeah, so they came and ripped out the wall in my bathroom...and nothing! Now they are going to the apartment upstairs to do the same. That is, rip out their wall. Still gonna have THREE MORE DAYS of people in my apartment...the air conditioner guys still have to come out and look at it...although everything looks fine and no lines punctured...then the dry wall guy has to fix the hole they made in the wall...then the maintenance guys have to come back to paint the wall.

The maintenance guy said the nail did not even go through the wall. So....duh...

They still don't know why the air conditioning in the unit downstairs isn't working.

Well, I am glad someone is making money during this pandemic doing a lot of non-productive stuff.

I'm in a very nice conference room with wifi and a view (more than I can say about my apartment) so I'm happy.

BUT THIS IS A FUN THREAD...LET'S KEEP IT GOING!

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I once destroyed my garage with a hockey stick. Then I threw my trash cans on the roof. Then I punched the fridge. And I'm still married - pre-lithium.
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Okay. What we have in America is a security deposit...which varies. But same thing. Damage cost would be subtracted from the security deposit. In my experience only unseasoned managers subtract anything. My ex and I once had an owner of a house we rented subtract $200 from the security deposit because they said we didn't dust a few closet shelves, and the toilet wasn't clean enough. That was just plain stealing on their part.

In the very first place I rented I had a week's rent deducted because I returned the key's a couple of days after I had cleaned the place. Never did that again.

Some landlords need the riot act read to them. On the other hand I have seen some places absolutely trashed by tenants and the bond will never cover the costs owed to the owners.
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In the very first place I rented I had a week's rent deducted because I returned the key's a couple of days after I had cleaned the place. Never did that again.

Some landlords need the riot act read to them. On the other hand I have seen some places absolutely trashed by tenants and the bond will never cover the costs owed to the owners.





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