I moved into my first apartment complex after getting a full time job. Signed the lease etc. for apartment #14. Upon wanting to move, I moved downstairs to apartment #12 on a month to month basis. Young and stupid me never took personal documentation of the damages to the apartment.
I did ask the manager to record it right after he did a walk through with me. He failed to do so - the new managers claim there is no documentation.
I was obligated to move without them cleaning it due to them booking a move in the same day the tenant of #12. No lease was signed for apartment #12.
Now he claims that the carpet needs to be replaced at full cost to me. The carpet has one rip, caused by a vacuum eating a thread of the carpet; frays by the linoleum, easily trimmed with a knife; and a burn mark in the second bedroom, which was there when he moved in.
As is there is no documentation by either the landlord or me as to damages.
What are my options here?
I did ask the manager to record it right after he did a walk through with me. He failed to do so - the new managers claim there is no documentation.
I was obligated to move without them cleaning it due to them booking a move in the same day the tenant of #12. No lease was signed for apartment #12.
Now he claims that the carpet needs to be replaced at full cost to me. The carpet has one rip, caused by a vacuum eating a thread of the carpet; frays by the linoleum, easily trimmed with a knife; and a burn mark in the second bedroom, which was there when he moved in.
As is there is no documentation by either the landlord or me as to damages.
What are my options here?