I'll try to keep this short so bear with me
My wife and I recently moved from our apartment that we lived at for just over 2 years. After moving we received a letter in the mail with a bill for $1352 for carpet replacement. This is a 591 sq ft tiny 1 bedroom apartment with cheap carpet mind you. I will admit that there is a small amount of carpet damage from our dog (when she was a puppy). There is a small hole about 1" in diameter the dog chewed in the carpet. Along with this they also sent us a picture of a perfectly straight cut in the carpet that i don't see how my dog could have caused. This cut is roughly 7" long and straight as an arrow. They also sent pictures from where they lifted the carpet and you could see stains. Funny they didn't lift the carpet for me during the original walk-through. All the damage is in the living room only, amounting to a size of about 12X12 feet of total area. I'm not sure where the under carpet stains are located, but we had a leaking ceiling for about 2 months. We let them know immediately that it was leaking and it took them almost a full 2 months to fix it.
I'm not sure how old the carpet was when we moved in, I'm considering asking them for the previous invoice to see when and how much it cost for the carpet to be replaced previously. We paid a very small ($100) security deposit, which was based on our credit that they are putting towards the repair amount. They are not however putting the $300 pet deposit and $15 a month we paid for "pet rent" towards the repair.
I won't go into too much detail because it would be way too long, but this apartment complex has been a joke for a long time. We constantly had to deal with issues that would take weeks to be repaired, a recessed light in the ceiling that was hanging completely out for the last 6 months we were there although we asked it to be repaired on several occasions. During the summer huge cockroaches would roam the complex inside and out, we had to killed probably 1 every other day, and these bastards were 2-3", they were huge. For a few weeks they neglected to empty the dumpster resulting in a mountain of trash bags laying outside for the wildlife to pick through. Im talking probably 100 bags of trash piled up. At one point someone crashed into the mail center which took 6 months to repair, resulting in me having to spend my lunch breaks driving to the post office to get my mail.
I'm not trying to avoid the small amount of damages that we did cause, but I'm not trying to re-carpet the entire place on my dime either. They gave us 2 weeks to pay in full or they will send it to collections. Any advice?
My wife and I recently moved from our apartment that we lived at for just over 2 years. After moving we received a letter in the mail with a bill for $1352 for carpet replacement. This is a 591 sq ft tiny 1 bedroom apartment with cheap carpet mind you. I will admit that there is a small amount of carpet damage from our dog (when she was a puppy). There is a small hole about 1" in diameter the dog chewed in the carpet. Along with this they also sent us a picture of a perfectly straight cut in the carpet that i don't see how my dog could have caused. This cut is roughly 7" long and straight as an arrow. They also sent pictures from where they lifted the carpet and you could see stains. Funny they didn't lift the carpet for me during the original walk-through. All the damage is in the living room only, amounting to a size of about 12X12 feet of total area. I'm not sure where the under carpet stains are located, but we had a leaking ceiling for about 2 months. We let them know immediately that it was leaking and it took them almost a full 2 months to fix it.
I'm not sure how old the carpet was when we moved in, I'm considering asking them for the previous invoice to see when and how much it cost for the carpet to be replaced previously. We paid a very small ($100) security deposit, which was based on our credit that they are putting towards the repair amount. They are not however putting the $300 pet deposit and $15 a month we paid for "pet rent" towards the repair.
I won't go into too much detail because it would be way too long, but this apartment complex has been a joke for a long time. We constantly had to deal with issues that would take weeks to be repaired, a recessed light in the ceiling that was hanging completely out for the last 6 months we were there although we asked it to be repaired on several occasions. During the summer huge cockroaches would roam the complex inside and out, we had to killed probably 1 every other day, and these bastards were 2-3", they were huge. For a few weeks they neglected to empty the dumpster resulting in a mountain of trash bags laying outside for the wildlife to pick through. Im talking probably 100 bags of trash piled up. At one point someone crashed into the mail center which took 6 months to repair, resulting in me having to spend my lunch breaks driving to the post office to get my mail.
I'm not trying to avoid the small amount of damages that we did cause, but I'm not trying to re-carpet the entire place on my dime either. They gave us 2 weeks to pay in full or they will send it to collections. Any advice?
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