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- Washington
Hello,
I am currently filling out applications as my current lease is almost up. One had me get a report from myscreeningreport.(com). No worries for credit/background. The issue is that a landlord I rented from 2013-2014 shows to be claiming we owe him $4,000. However, I have moved twice since then, and never had any issues on the other applications. Even with the home I rented directly after him (2014-2016), there were never any issues with the application. He claims we didn't do any yard work, left the house a mess, ect. Until now, I thought we were in good standing with him, since we never heard anything after we left his house. Two other relevant points: 1) When we moved out, we actually did get some of the security deposit back- all he took was cleaning fees for the carpet and fees for a broken handrail (no worries there, that makes sense).
2) Two of our roommates (out of 4) stayed at that location for another year and we are skeptical they were the cause of any large amounts of damage. Iv'e tried to contact them, but the reason for the move was a break of friendship so no answers yet.
I will be needing to move at the end of May, is there anything that I can quickly do to make sure this doesn't show up, or when contacted, he is unable to say "yeah, they owe me a bunch of money", and then fully figure it out later.
Thanks!
I am currently filling out applications as my current lease is almost up. One had me get a report from myscreeningreport.(com). No worries for credit/background. The issue is that a landlord I rented from 2013-2014 shows to be claiming we owe him $4,000. However, I have moved twice since then, and never had any issues on the other applications. Even with the home I rented directly after him (2014-2016), there were never any issues with the application. He claims we didn't do any yard work, left the house a mess, ect. Until now, I thought we were in good standing with him, since we never heard anything after we left his house. Two other relevant points: 1) When we moved out, we actually did get some of the security deposit back- all he took was cleaning fees for the carpet and fees for a broken handrail (no worries there, that makes sense).
2) Two of our roommates (out of 4) stayed at that location for another year and we are skeptical they were the cause of any large amounts of damage. Iv'e tried to contact them, but the reason for the move was a break of friendship so no answers yet.
I will be needing to move at the end of May, is there anything that I can quickly do to make sure this doesn't show up, or when contacted, he is unable to say "yeah, they owe me a bunch of money", and then fully figure it out later.
Thanks!
