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July 29, 2009

Horror Landlord/Tenant Stories

I cannot imagine the horrible things that landlord/tenant done to rental properties until I read some here.

All praise be to Allah SWT, so far our rental experience have been quite alright. Repairs that we reported to the management were taken care promptly for the most part. We also took good care of the apartment unit and clean up the place when we moved.

The only bad experience we have is that we are unable to get back our $300 deposit from our last rental place in Lubbock, Texas. After husband called and sent written notices to the management for a few months after we moved to DFW area, we never hear from them. In the end we decided that the effort put into getting it back is just not worth it.

For almost three years we do not have any major maintenance problems while staying at our current apartment complex. The only issue that we had was that water was turned off thrice at the last notice, and we had to buy bottled water from the supermarket.

While we cannot control how our landlord's help with maintenance issues, we can only document any type of incidents and communicate with them about damages and problem areas.

Allah SWT willing I hope that when we move to a new rental property, we will have a pleasant experience with the new landlord.

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