Landlord Question and Answer Forum

My tenants have moved out. Upon doing a walk through of the house notice a satellite dish a alternation done on entertainment center. Which both required written approval prior being done. According to my lease agreement it states " Provided the Tenant(s) fulfill all of the obligations of the Lease Agreement, the Landlord will return either an itemized accounting for charges with any balance of the security deposit or the entire security deposit to the Tenant within 30 days". I believe since they did not fulfill ALL of the obligations of the Lease Agreement, this is a violation/breach of the contract and forfeits the security deposit, correct? If so, does anyone have recommendations of a letter I could go and use? I have looked on this site but cannot find anything pertaining to Notices on Security Deposit being returned or not. Any assistance or guidance will be helpful. Thank you,

You simply need to send them a itemized deduction of what the security is going to be used for. This is true also that if they did breach the lease they did forfeit the right to the return of the security deposit.

Posted by Patty H, on Monday, February 8, 2016

Even if they breached the lease I will send them a itemized deduction explaining that to them? Just want to make sure I am sending the right thing to them. Thank you,

Posted by Tina S, LA on Monday, February 8, 2016

our tenant was evicted and forced out by bailiff he left behind a lot of personal items, upon trying to itemize them to move them to storage, he was witnessed breaking into the property. Damage was done to the door frame window and garage panel. There was a written statement by a witness and police were involved. We have filed a restraining order because he got violent and was harassing us. He was advised of fees for storage and itemizing etc. with no response, he went to court and filed low income even though he drives a Porsche and has a 6 eviction history, this is his norm. He filed a motion to have his possessions returned with no lien, emergency. It was denied because he had not forwarded his info etc. I had continued to send him demands, oh he also reported to district attorney for bounced check. Anyways, he filed again same thing and it was granted for us to return his goods. we were prepared to return them based on the court order that day but he made no contact nor a representative did not contact us either. I filed with the judge because we were not properly served and unaware of the hearing. At this point we would like to sell his goods to recoop the loss for hauling and moving inventory and storage of the items, then take him to court for the balance due for rent, prosecute regarding burglary and the bad check. do you have any advise or legal ramifications regarding the matter at hand.

Posted by D.Lan'Ae C, NV on Tuesday, February 9, 2016