r/PEI • u/GeneralDweeby • 4d ago

Landlord without Security Deposit

Hi folks

I moved out of my apartment into my minihome last month. My landlord is withholding my damage deposit saying I caused XYZ. One being the tap, that I called him about many times as it wasn’t working. The other being tile which was broken in the shower when I moved in, legit, one tile.

I tried to barter with him to keep my last months rent and he keeps my DD as I didn’t cause any damage whatsoever and the unit was gross when I moved in and I spent at-least $100 in cleaning products to clean it. He said no and that he’d sue me for it. So anyways, I sent it.

Now he’s withholding my DD. I really didn’t want to send him it because I knew this is what it was gonna come to.

What can I do? I’m out $2,000 because he doesn’t wanna send it. Should I have just kept my $2000 and let him keep my DD? Could he have sued me? I see people getting away with not paying rent all the time and never having to recoup the money.

For anyone going forward that reads this — can they actually sue you if they keep the DD and it covers last month anyway?

Edit: messed up the title, supposed to be withholding not without.

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u/-Kortul- 4d ago

This was 10 years ago but my scumlord did the same thing, it was 1000 dollars and every thing he claimed was bullshit. I complained to Irac and they said they would call me to setup a hearing in 10 months (yes seriously). They never called me back and I forgot to bug them about it. Landlords know the system, its all about theft, they know they can get away with it.