Breaking my apartment lease and want security deposit back.

Would I be able to get my full security deposit back if I break my lease due to pretty much feeling violated in my apartment? The situation is this, my boyfriend and I live in a one bedroom apartment. Just recently our drain in the bath tub started to corrode and there was a hole next to the drain. We told the acting superintenant and he called the landlord and he told him to call the old superintenant because he has plumbing experience. Well he never answered his phone to let us know if he was coming to fix it or not. The next day, my boyfriend and I got home from work to find that someone had been in our apartment. This guy never gave us notice to if he was coming, he didn't lock my dead bolt on my door, I have towels in my bathroom for show and they're black and white and he shoved the black one up the faucet in my bath tub and used the white one to wipe his dirty hands on and threw it on my bedroom floor, he used my wall as a cutting board to cut the fiber glass, my entire apartment wreaked of polly resin, he shut my bathroom door which I have cats and that is where the cat box is, and he also left my bathroom light on which goes on my electric bill that I have to pay. Now I don't feel safe in this apartment anymore and my lease isn't up until next june. I want out. Can someone please help me??

 

thank you, jessica


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You can start civil proceeding to re coop losses, but legally the things done is not enough to break your lease. keep paying your full rent and file a civel suit for damages, the judge maylet you out of the lease if you feel there is iminent danger, to your person

Posted 2009-08-25T00:23:42Z
 
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a landlord has to by law give you written notice at least 24 hours prior to entering the apartment unless it states otherwise in the lease, contact the landlord and tell them what happened give them a chance to correct the situation and make sure you have proof of all this do everything by certified mail, and noterized letters. Give the landlord a bill for the towels if they were ruined. Did your cats go on anything and ruine it is so do the same for whatever was ruined. By law you have to give the Landlord notice of this and a chance to correct it take pics of the walls ect. did they have to go in the bedroon to fix the bathroom if not that is a violation of privacy. But you need to at least give the landlord a chance to fix it if not give notice and if he or she holds your security deposit go to court with all the documentation!!!!

Posted 2009-08-25T03:13:27Z

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