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Rahiri
Guest
- Jurisdiction
- Utah
I lived in a downstairs basement apartment for over 4 years. The upstairs landlord got an infestation of bed bugs that eventually transferred downstairs and they started to bite my two sons. I notified my landlord as soon as we found the first bed bug in our unit. She called Orkin and they determined that the infestation started upstairs. My landlord decided to evict the upstairs and gave my family a notice to vacate, stating that she could not treat the bed bug issue with tenants there. After arguing with her stating that was not fair to my family because if the stuff was not treated we would just take the bed bugs with us. The upstairs neighbors are from the middle east and they didn't think there was an issue with the bed bugs being there. My landlord was originally going to treat the house with the heat which is the most effective way to get rid of bed bugs, but then decided to treat with spray, we had 3 spray treatments before we moved and there was still bedbugs in the my kids room.
Because of the infestation we had to get rid of a brand new bunk bed that was completely infested with the bugs, also two dressers from my kids room and two couches because we didn't want the chance of them having any bugs in them to take to our new place.
At the time we moved out we cleaned the apartment but did not do a very through cleaning as we have two young sons and me and my husband work full time. During our walk thru with the landlord she did mention that there was some cleaning to be done in the kitchen and bathroom that we didn't quite clean to her satisfaction and there there was some red stains in the front room carpet. We discussed this issue with her and told her that we didn't care if we got the $700.00 security deposit back. But since we were had to rid of the furniture we thought it was fair that we would be charged for anything else. She made a verbal agreement and said that was fair and since we would have moved out it this issue with the bed bugs hadn't have happened.
So sorry for the long story but wanted to give you the facts because here is my question. I just received a letter from my previous landlord stating the the expenses exceed what my security deposit was ...... She is charging $276.80 for carpet cleaning, $40 for window cleaning, $67.00 to replace the blinds, $400 for extensive cleaning, $100 for wall repainting, and then my big issue $1500.00 stating she had to replace the entire carpet for a total of $1,983.80
I know for a fact the carpet was not new when we moved and the only stains in the entire place was in the front room. So there was no reason for her to replace the entire carpet.
I don't think that I need to pay this much for cleaning and I don't think that I need to pay for the entire carpet to be replaces since I believe the law is that the landlord has to replace the carpet every 5 years. Can you give me some advice please.
Because of the infestation we had to get rid of a brand new bunk bed that was completely infested with the bugs, also two dressers from my kids room and two couches because we didn't want the chance of them having any bugs in them to take to our new place.
At the time we moved out we cleaned the apartment but did not do a very through cleaning as we have two young sons and me and my husband work full time. During our walk thru with the landlord she did mention that there was some cleaning to be done in the kitchen and bathroom that we didn't quite clean to her satisfaction and there there was some red stains in the front room carpet. We discussed this issue with her and told her that we didn't care if we got the $700.00 security deposit back. But since we were had to rid of the furniture we thought it was fair that we would be charged for anything else. She made a verbal agreement and said that was fair and since we would have moved out it this issue with the bed bugs hadn't have happened.
So sorry for the long story but wanted to give you the facts because here is my question. I just received a letter from my previous landlord stating the the expenses exceed what my security deposit was ...... She is charging $276.80 for carpet cleaning, $40 for window cleaning, $67.00 to replace the blinds, $400 for extensive cleaning, $100 for wall repainting, and then my big issue $1500.00 stating she had to replace the entire carpet for a total of $1,983.80
I know for a fact the carpet was not new when we moved and the only stains in the entire place was in the front room. So there was no reason for her to replace the entire carpet.
I don't think that I need to pay this much for cleaning and I don't think that I need to pay for the entire carpet to be replaces since I believe the law is that the landlord has to replace the carpet every 5 years. Can you give me some advice please.