We moved out of Ohio over 4 months ago, finally got an apartment up here in North Dakota. Our prior landlord has had our new address the entire time. Now, as soon as we're about to move into this new apartment(tomorrow), signed a lease, paid deposit, a moving truck & everything, we are told my our new landlord that our prior landlord in Ohio is all of a sudden saying we owe almost $800 in damages. We never had a notice or anything, now our new landlord is acting like it has to be all cleared up when we didn't do the things our prior landlord is accusing us of. They kept our $200 deposit(because we didn't give them a 30 day notice, it was like 22 days notice) & the only things we agreed to doing was leaving a trash bag there, not "scrubbing" the oven & fridge, a shelf in the fridge came loose & so did the toilet paper holder. We didn't want the maintenance man to come into our apartment & tighten the toilet paper holder & fridge shelf though cause he was a registered sex offender & there were rumors saying he was putting cameras in people's apartments(right before we moved out he got fired for being caught going into women's apartments go figure). Can we be charged $1,000 for these minor wear & tear things? I know we weren't able to give him exactly 30 days notice, but according to Ohio law, the landlord was required within 30 days to give us an itemized list of damages/expenses. Is that completely null merely because we didn't get a 30 day notice? I'd highly appreciate it if someone could assist me! Thanks!
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Let me ask you this # Did you not have a walk trough by the landlord ,signed by both # ?
You must leave the place the way you found it.
If you did not do the basic cleaning before leaving, then yes you can be charged for this. I am afraid that you will have to pay, just because the maintenance man was a register sex offender did not excuse you from not having work done. You should have contacted Management
I found this concerning tenants (laws ) in Ohio:
http://www.tenant.net/Other_Areas/Ohio/landlord.ht...
check it out if you wish.
I don't know Ohio law (I live in England), but 22 days sounds like a reasonable amount of time for your landlord to put an itemised list of damages together. Also, it seems rather unreasonable to charge for the fridge shelf and the toilet roll holder since they're maintenance issues, as you state.