Covered by a maintenance request or should I do some self-repair? Don't wanna get charged

6/13/2012 7:35:42 AM

that pet deposit has gotta pay for something

just tell them it was a VintageMisunderstanding

6/13/2012 7:46:33 AM

^most pet fees aka "deposits" don't cover pet damages. Pet fees are for funding employees' christmas bonuses and nothing else.

get a quote from a carpet company. You'll have to replace that section (wall to wall)/room of carpet. You could do it yourself, but I think you need a good bit of practice and carpet installation tools to make it worth a damn.

6/13/2012 8:00:22 AM

Make dog fix carpet.

6/13/2012 8:06:55 AM

Rub your dogs nose in it and smack his ass.

6/13/2012 8:17:23 AM

How big is the hole? And how long have you lived in the apartment?

6/13/2012 8:26:12 AM

replace it with something of a different weave and hideous pattern, then act like it's always been that way

6/13/2012 8:28:17 AM

^^^ And that's when we break out the peanut butter

6/13/2012 8:43:03 AM

My dog did that when he was a puppy. Sucked. Lost that deposit

6/13/2012 8:44:58 AM

When my cat got locked in our bedroom and tried to dig herself out I had to sit there with hot glue for a couple hours and reglue the carpet because I didn't want to get charged for carpet damage. When they came to do the move out inspection the manager gave the spot a funny look but didn't pursue the issue so I guess I did a good enough job ghettorigging it back into place

6/13/2012 8:51:44 AM

^hahaha my cat scratched up a bunch of white paint on the wall of my old apartment so I covered it up with toothpaste and white out and didn't get charged. I felt very proud of myself.

6/13/2012 9:30:09 AM

^^I've done this. Luckily it was that berber carpet that came out in strips, so it looked pretty good once we glued it back down.

6/13/2012 9:37:58 AM

lol yeah this was berber too. Looked like this:



But she managed to scratch all the way down to the plywood board in this large spot. It was about the size of a piece of sandwich bread what she damaged

^^ haha yep definitely have used the toothpaste trick on walls. In the last apartment we lived in our washing machine had flooded some water onto the back wall so I ended up having to go to Home Depot and buying a sample paint the color of the wall and repainting the section. It wasn't an exact match but it was close enough not to illicit further inspection.

[Edited on June 13, 2012 at 9:42 AM. Reason : big pic is big]

6/13/2012 9:42:28 AM

My dog scratched up a door and door frame/molding in my old apartment. She demolished a section of molding on either side. I just sanded it down, applied putty and made it as smooth as possible, and repainted with matching paint. It was blatantly obvious on the molding since the two repaired sections were flat/smooth and the actual molding was of typical molding (with curves, 'architectural features', whatever you call it). However, when I moved out, the management never even noticed. yehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

6/13/2012 10:02:08 AM

Call someone to fix it.

6/13/2012 10:05:02 AM

depending on how long you live there, they will probably replace the carpet by default when you leave anyway

6/13/2012 11:30:01 AM

^but many places will still charge damages even if they were going to replace the carpet.

6/13/2012 1:27:12 PM

they can but they have to prove how many years of life the carpet has left and can only charge you a depreciated value. I think nc law has standard carpet pegged at a 7 year replacement life.

6/13/2012 1:44:02 PM

True but fighting them on it will take up more of your time than ghettorigging a repair and pretending like the damage didn't happen in the first place.

6/13/2012 4:09:05 PM

Use part of dog's hide to cover hole.

1) Keep deposit.
2) Teach dog lesson.

6/13/2012 4:27:54 PM

This is where "eye for an eye" comes in. Now you have to chew a hole in the dog.

6/13/2012 4:34:40 PM

I find it funny that ITT people bitch about pet deposits then go into detail of all the damage their pets caused

IMO pet deposits should be non refundable.

6/13/2012 10:22:09 PM

they are most places. i think they mean they didn't get the regular deposit back

6/13/2012 11:16:43 PM

Rub your balls with flour and clap them until the bleed to make a sacrifice to the carpet gods and it'll be fixed by the morning.

6/13/2012 11:21:05 PM

^^^uh, most "pet deposits" aren't deposits at all. they are fees. fee != deposit. fees don't cover anything, e.g. damage, cleaning. It's just a fuck you fee that does nothing. There is no reason a pet fee should be non-returnable.

[Edited on June 14, 2012 at 8:25 AM. Reason : .]

6/14/2012 8:23:47 AM

Quote :

"My dog did that when he was a puppy. Sucked. Lost that deposit "

yep, same here

also, I would call the front office to tell them and see what kind of options you have. It will at least show that you are being proactive about it.

We got royally screwed by our last apartment because there was a small wine stain on the carpet when we moved out. We lost our deposit AND got a bill for $900+ saying that they had to replace the carpet and padding in our living room (where the stain was), but since they couldnt find carpet to match the other carpeted rooms, they had to replace the entire apartment.

We tried contacting a lawyer, but since we didnt take pictures of what the carpet looked like before it was ripped out, we didnt have much ground to stand on and would end up spending more to fight the bullshit than just paying it off.

[Edited on June 14, 2012 at 8:34 AM. Reason : adsf]

6/14/2012 8:30:50 AM

Quote :

"True but fighting them on it will take up more of your time than ghettorigging a repair and pretending like the damage didn't happen in the first place."

It took me one certified letter and they went from trying to extort $1200 from me down to $150. I probably could have fought them on the $150, but just paid it to be done with it.

6/14/2012 8:50:32 AM

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"We tried contacting a lawyer, but since we didnt take pictures of what the carpet looked like before it was ripped out"

This is something I tell my students every year. ALWAYS TAKE PICTURES. If the student is lucky enough to have me with them when signing their lease, I do their check-in sheet with them and take lots of photographs of their unit. Property managers hate seeing me show up I send them this every year as well. Good rundown of how to protect yourself and your tenant rights: http://www.ncsu.edu/stud_affairs/legal_services/legaldocs/LandlordTenantHandout.htm

6/14/2012 10:34:04 AM

kill the dog

6/14/2012 2:52:37 PM