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ining Financial Advantage By Deception

  • 22-03-2011 11:33pm
    #1
    pvt6zh395dqbrj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭


    Is there a specific law that deals with this?

    Basically the folks form whom we letted a house implied that we were liable for any cleaning that was required when we moved out and I believed them. And so, I agreed to let them take the money out of the security deposit for any cleaning that they required.

    Now I am lead to believe that we are not liable for any cleaning. Does this fall under the catergory of obtaining a financial advantage by deception?


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  • #2
    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    You mean obtaining? What did your lease say?


  • #3
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,575 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    You are responsible for any damage, other than normal wear and tear. You have to leave the property clean.

    So while minor scuff marks are OK, leavings bags worth of rubbish isn't.


  • #4
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,989 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Douglas Chubby Zinger wrote: »
    Basically the folks form whom we letted a house implied that we were liable for any cleaning that was required when we moved out and I believed them. And so, I agreed to let them take the money out of the security deposit for any cleaning that they required.

    Now I am lead to believe that we are not liable for any cleaning. Does this fall under the catergory of obtaining a financial advantage by deception?
    You don't say how exactly the landlord "implied" that you were liable for cleaning, but - even assuming that you were not in fact liable - the fact that you use such a weak term doesn't fill me with hope that you could sustain a charge of deception. To get a criminal conviction you would need to show that they knowingly, intentionally deceived you. An "implication" is unlikely to meet the required standard.


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