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The last month of rent conundrum

thelad95 · 2017-06-03 11:39:53

So you've come to the final month of your lease and you know you're moving out. Are you honest with your landlord and give them the last months rent and expect your deposit back or do you act the gobshîte and use the old 'sure you can keep my deposit' excuse? Just asking for a mate.

03-06-2017 11:39am

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thelad95

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So you've come to the final month of your lease and you know you're moving out. Are you honest with your landlord and give them the last months rent and expect your deposit back or do you act the gobshîte and use the old 'sure you can keep my deposit' excuse?

Just asking for a mate.

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#2 03-06-2017 11:43am

Yourself isit

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Definitely

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#3 03-06-2017 11:44am

xzanti

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In my experience of renting, I'm usually told by the Landlord to not pay the last months rent, in lieu of the deposit back.

I'm sure it's different from case to case though.

Also, there is an Accommodation & Property forum which might be better suited for your query.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=38

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#4 03-06-2017 11:48am

PrettyBoy

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Just pay your rent.

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#5 03-06-2017 12:12pm

bucketybuck

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Currently I'm living with two girls, they originally leased the place with another guy who moved out for whatever reason and so I recently replaced him. I've never met the landlord, I pay him by bank transfer monthly but the girls did all the advertising and searching etc etc for a new flatmate. I paid the deposit to one of the girls who passed it onto the guy who had left.

They have the place in an absolute state. It was relatively clean when I moved in but of course it was all superficial to get a new tenant in, since then its very clear that these girls are allergic to ****ing cleaning. No sweeping, no hoovering, food waste left in the sink, binbags of food waste left on the ground, food rotting away on their shelves. One of the girls is the main culprit and basically she is the type of lazy useless ****e that thinks getting a dish wet is the same as washing it.

The place is liveable thankfully, it hasn't degraded into complete ****hole yet, but it is in a state and there is no way any landlord would return any deposit without a huge chunk removed for cleaning.

They have been here a few years and I have no idea what condition the place was when they moved in, was it spotless or was it grotty when they got here, I don't know, but I know it was grotty when I moved in and I know I have left my room and anything I have control over in better condition than I found it. So as far as I am concerned why should I lose my deposit?

I'm not on any lease, I suspect I am a licensee to the girl who arranged everything, so I'm looking for a new place and when I find it I will be gone and they can sit and stew in the mess they made. And I am perfectly fine with saying that I will treat the deposit as my last months rent, whenever that may be.

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