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Posted: Sun Feb 17th, 2008 07:59 pm |
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Hi,
Just wanted to let you know I received my sec. dep. (at least part of it) on Fri. Feb 15, exactly 46 days after my move out date. So they were one day late, but at least I got my money. Thanks for your responses.
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Posted: Fri Feb 8th, 2008 03:32 am |
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I found it several places by googling "VA security deposit". One place I found it is: http://www.arlingtonva.us/Departments/CPHD/Documents/7966SECURITY%20Deposit.pdf (the Dept of Housing & Development in Arlington).
I also found it at the source: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+coh+55-248.15:1+408259 which is your state's legal web site (which is where I posted the quote from).
If you don't receive it by the Monday after that date, please repost and we will continue this discussion.
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Posted: Thu Feb 7th, 2008 11:51 pm |
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Thank you for replying. Our lease had ended, and we were going month to month, as was acceptable according to the lease.
Could you cite your source about the 45 days? I can't seem to find it. Your quote gives me hope that we might get our money back still.
Thanks!
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Posted: Thu Feb 7th, 2008 10:04 pm |
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A few questions:
You said you had a lease. Was that lease expired, just ending, or were you on a month to month after the lease had already ended? What was the ending date for your lease?
In VA, the LL actually has 45 days to return the security deposit. The security deposit, any accrued interest and any deductions, damages and charges shall be itemized by the landlord in a written notice given to the tenant, together with any amount due the tenant within 45 days after termination of the tenancy and delivery of possession. In this case, the time doesn't expire until Feb 14th, so you may still get the deposit statement back in time.
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Posted: Thu Feb 7th, 2008 08:58 pm |
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Hi, I'm a tenant in VA dealing with a property manager who has not returned my security deposit. I gave a 30 day notice before moving out, just as my lease stated. My date of vacating the premises was Dec. 31, 2007. I left the keys and a forwarding address with the office. It is now Feb. 7, 2008, and I've heard nothing and received nothing from my old property manager. We left the place cleaner than when we moved in. The only things I can think of that may be held against us (other than the property manager's personal dislike of me,) was that the bedroom sliding closet door came off its track and the track broke (minor) and that the screen window of one of the bedrooms blew out of the outside sill by a strong wind and was damaged. (It was never properly secured in the first place.) Even if these things were deducted, I can't see how they would equal the $800 sec. dep. we paid.
From reading the VA tenant law, I think I am understanding it to say that the LL has 30 days after my vacating the premises to give back my dep. But the language is a little difficult and wordy, and I wanted to make sure I was reading it right. Here's part of it though - this part seems straightforward enough.
"The security deposit, any accrued interest and any deductions, damages and charges shall be itemized by the landlord in a written notice given to the tenant, together with any amount due the tenant within thirty days after termination of the tenancy and delivery of possession."
So that means the LL should have let me know by now if there were any deductions to my deposit, right?
I have not yet contacted my LL about this and was wondering about the most prudent way to do so. Phone call first, then letter? Any advice would be helpful. Thank you.
Blackcat
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