Monday, July 18, 2011

Kentucky Security Deposit Dispute?

I am having a problem with my landlord. The landlord actually mailed us the lease and the lease included the comprehensive list but we were never able to mail this list back to him. 3 years later, we decide to vacate. we gave him proper notice and actually left 10 days early so that he can prepare the property for the next renters in June. 3 days prior to the end of the lease, we inspected the property with the landlord and he noted a couple of things on paper (not a comprehesive list) that he thought he would deduct from the deposit. most of the things he noted were "normal wear and tear" items (painting 3 bedrooms, dust bunnies on light globes and mis-matched light bulbs). In order to not dispute anything we signed his little paper agree to be refunded $750 out of the $1,125 deposit. This also did not include the cost of the carpet clean we paid out of our pocket. A week after the 1st inspection he emailed and said he found more things to deduct and sometime in June (after he rented the property) he said he needed to deduct more cleaning charges and other damages. The landlord seemed to have violated KRS 383.505 thru KRS 383.570 & KRS 383.580. The landlord aslo included this in his lease and I thought this would be prohibited under KRS 383.570: "Landlord shall have the right to recover from Tenant all costs over and above the security deposit retained, accruing to Landlord as a result of repairing or correcting damage to leased premises resulting from the Tenant’s occupancy, including reasonable attorney’s fees required for the collection of said costs".

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