So I had a lease ending Aug. 1st at LJM. Around 4:30 I went to the leasing office to request the maintenance guy to give my moving inspection. I still had a little bit of tidying up to day so I asked when they were to closed and was told 6 PM.

Around 5:30 I had finished my cleaning locked up my apartment and went to the office to hand over my keys. Sure enough they decided to go early. Not thinking it a good idea to leave my keys on the door step; i returned the next day to hand them over.

Sure enough I get a notice in the mail at the end of last week saying they were taking amount out of my deposit. I attempted to reconcile this fee after finding out only to be told I should have left the keys under the floormat. I could see it now I leave my keys under the mat some random person finds them during the night trashes my apartment then i get charged $500 in damage and destruction. Supposedly though the woman was giving a tour; yet i remember the "CLOSED- RETURN BY" sign in the 9 AM position to which logical deduction would point to this meaning Saturday morning not 9pm friday night.

The fact remains though. The apartment representative said they were closing at 6 I returned during their stated business hours. They were not there with the "return by" sign set for the next day. I had vacated the apartment. Thus I decided to hold onto my keys till i could assuredly "hand them" to an official. Even if i was trying to "leach" use of my apartment by having the keys i could just as easily had a spare copy made ( the key did not have the "do not duplicate" inscription) and have been squatting w/o them knowing since i could have already turned in my keys. Bullshit is the fact that they are attempting to bullshit me out of $50 in my deposit b.c they did not honor their own posted business policies.

8/25/2008 10:35:40 PM

they shitted me out of a ton of money. fuck them. they made me pay FULL PRICE to replace the carpet in my unit when they could not even produce a record of the last time that carpet had been replaced.

8/25/2008 10:49:44 PM

thats dirty


they know damn well you cant leave fuckin keys under doormats

8/25/2008 10:53:25 PM

LJM ripped me off too. Must be the same or similar management as 3-4 years ago.

8/25/2008 10:59:26 PM

I bet had i even somehow managed to slip the keys through the cracks of the doors they would have claimed and charged me a $100 fee for "lost keys".

8/25/2008 11:05:01 PM

i always liked that place...everything i've ever heard about it has been negative though

8/25/2008 11:05:39 PM

i'd had that happen before. they left early and charged me one day's rent out of the deposit.

nothing you can do unless you have evidence and i bet you don't.

should have waited till 6 AND had a video going for the entire 30 mins you would have been there.

8/25/2008 11:07:23 PM

http://www.ncsu.edu/student_affairs/legal_services/

Student Legal Services. Learn it, use it, love it.

8/25/2008 11:09:06 PM

I just graduated....

but i do pay into the Corning Attorney defense Network...

Although not sure if its worth a lawyer's time over $50. Going to contact the GM for the region. $50 might not be worth a lawyer but it might not be worth it for them to have a disgruntled ex-resident giving bad reviews and talking shit.

8/25/2008 11:12:48 PM

HUR PWNT
call WRAL for details

8/25/2008 11:16:43 PM

8/26/2008 12:46:33 AM

^^^Just an FYI, if you win in small claims court, they pay for your lawyer's fees and court costs too.

8/26/2008 1:56:51 AM

and they get a nasty judgment when they don't pay those fees

8/26/2008 10:12:37 AM

[Edited on August 26, 2008 at 11:30 AM. Reason : that match as a smiley face]

8/26/2008 11:28:22 AM