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[quote=Anonymous]I recently moved out of a townhome that I had rented for 3.5 years. When we moved in, we put down a security deposit of $2,000. According to our lease, the landlord would refund the security deposit and give us a list of any deductions within 30 days. After 90 days and several phone calls to the landlord, we received a refund of $1,000. No explanation for the deductions. We emailed and were sent a list of the deductions a week later. Basically they are charging us for carpet cleaning (the carpets were not soiled, just normal wear and tear), house cleaning (we spent HOURS cleaning the house before we moved out), painting of the "trim" (I'm assuming the paint had chipped in a couple of places), and to repaint a portion of the fence in our backyard that our 3-year old chalked on.

Here are the issues I have:

1. The landlord notified us PRIOR to the walk through that she was having the house cleaners/carpet cleaners come in the day of our move. Since she had no idea of the state of the house, I assumed she was doing this as her standard procedure. I did NOT know she was planning on charging us $500 for this!

2. She had new tenants move in literally the day after we moved out. She did not give us any opportunity to make repairs/cleaning ourselves, nor did she notify us of any repairs/cleaning that needed to be done. For example, she charged us $350 to re-paint the fence. I could have spent 10 minutes and removed the chalk with soap and water. Unfortunately it was something I overlooked on the day of the move.

We are not covered under the Virginia Landlord Tenant Act because the landlord owns less than 4 condos/houses. Is there anything I can do to dispute her deductions? I just don't think it's fair that a landlord can keep as much money as they want, and seemingly the tenant has no rights...[/quote]

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