ineedlegalhelp
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I live in New York City, and I am curious where I can find laws applying to a verbal agreement to month-to-month rent when a landlord refuses to return a security deposit.
I was not on the lease, I was subletting a room. Her reason for not returning the deposit is that I did not give a written 30 day notice. I'd like to know if this is even necessary, when there is no written contract to begin with, but my reason for moving out was that we agreed before I moved in that I could have a pet and one of the girls no longer wanted the cat in the apartment. I also found out that they are not allowed to have pets in the apartment according to the lease they signed with their management so I should not have been allowed to sublet anyway.
The cat lived in the apartment for almost two months. I moved out 28 days after my roommate said she no longer wanted the cat to be in the house.
She sent me a letter stating the following reasons for not returning the money:
1. I didn't give a written 30 day notification of leaving
2. she had used my deposit to pay her deposit on the lease and it can not be returned until they get it back.
(Isn't this illegal? I am not on the lease, I am renting from the girls, not the management company, shouldn't my funds be kept separate?)
3. I had caused too much damage to the property. The damage listed included things like "cat hair on the carpet, nails in the wall, bedside table left in the room" Nothing over normal wear and tear, and a few things added for pzazz
4. she couldn't find a new sub-letter for September so she had to use my deposit to pay the rent for that room
(again, I feel this is illegal. I'm not sure how it could be my responsibility to find a new tenant when I was asked to get out my pet)
Thank you for any help!
I was not on the lease, I was subletting a room. Her reason for not returning the deposit is that I did not give a written 30 day notice. I'd like to know if this is even necessary, when there is no written contract to begin with, but my reason for moving out was that we agreed before I moved in that I could have a pet and one of the girls no longer wanted the cat in the apartment. I also found out that they are not allowed to have pets in the apartment according to the lease they signed with their management so I should not have been allowed to sublet anyway.
The cat lived in the apartment for almost two months. I moved out 28 days after my roommate said she no longer wanted the cat to be in the house.
She sent me a letter stating the following reasons for not returning the money:
1. I didn't give a written 30 day notification of leaving
2. she had used my deposit to pay her deposit on the lease and it can not be returned until they get it back.
(Isn't this illegal? I am not on the lease, I am renting from the girls, not the management company, shouldn't my funds be kept separate?)
3. I had caused too much damage to the property. The damage listed included things like "cat hair on the carpet, nails in the wall, bedside table left in the room" Nothing over normal wear and tear, and a few things added for pzazz
4. she couldn't find a new sub-letter for September so she had to use my deposit to pay the rent for that room
(again, I feel this is illegal. I'm not sure how it could be my responsibility to find a new tenant when I was asked to get out my pet)
Thank you for any help!