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Deposits should be held by the city. The landlord should be forced to prove they deserve it in a court of law. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 7 months ago by UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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Shouldn't be a issue since landlords never lie to keep deposits right?

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[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Wait, this ISN'T how it works where you live?

Where I live (in Victoria, Australia), the bond is held in trust by the residential tenancies bond authority. At the end of the lease the landlord can try make a claim, but you can take them to VCAT (a small claims tribunal) to argue against it, and until either all parties agree, or the court orders it, the bond doesn't get paid out to anyone.

Our laws are far from good, and still favour owners too much, but damn. Just trusting them to pay you out of their own pocket?

[–] valtia@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just trusting them to pay you out of their own pocket?

actually the opposite! everyone here just expects to never see their deposit ever again

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Just trusting them to pay you out of their own pocket?

Assuming US, it actually depends on the state (may be all states, but I can only speak of those I've lived in). The law is that the money must go into a separate interest bearing account and that is the money that is to be returned. So the money isn't supposed be their own pocket.