Comments on: Problem with landlord repair, security deposit, abuses https://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/tenant-rights/problem-with-landlord-repair-security-deposit-abuses-0 Sat, 16 Oct 2021 17:50:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: anonymous https://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/tenant-rights/problem-with-landlord-repair-security-deposit-abuses-0#comment-17436 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:25:03 +0000 http://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/blog/renter?p=1878#comment-17436 There are things you have to do in order to get out of a lease early. Based on your post, it sounds like you left early for valid reasons… but unless you followed legal protocal; you’re out of luck.

You should have hired an attorney when all of this was going on, not after the fact. You have created bigger problems for yourself and most likely no attorney is going to take your case. Is it really worth the fight to get a deposit back? Most attorney’s charge $300 per hour… So even if your deposit is $2,000 it would still cost you more to hire an attorney than your deposit is worth.

Move on!

]]> By: red3823 https://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/tenant-rights/problem-with-landlord-repair-security-deposit-abuses-0#comment-17440 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:01:54 +0000 http://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/blog/renter?p=1878#comment-17440 I love how you make it clear that you are an illegal immigrant BUT somehow feel entitled to rights. Who cares if you are illegal or not?! Personally, I disagree and think you shouldn’t have any rights, especially when it comes to requesting free legal aide paid for by tax payers.

You have right to a safe living environment. You do not have any right to use any tax payer funded services, regardless of what you think your rights are. If you want to talk about rights, why not pay your share?

Maybe you can count your deposit as a tax towards living here illegally. If I were really harsh, I would encourage your landlord to report you to immigration officials.

Please stop wasting tax payers dollars. Like the above poster said– move on. Get real!!

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