Brantley Jaco 516 Nandina Dr Goose Creek, SC 29445
Deposit Amount : usp_custom_field : 3800.00
Landlord failed to notify us within 30 days of end of lease which was July 31, 2019, that he was not returning remaining balance of our deposit. We found out by checking the property management portal on August 30, after we did not receive a check in the mail or a letter in mail telling us we was not getting deposit back and we provided new mailing address to landlord. When I inquired through email two weeks ago about the deposit being returned being mailed, he responded with the remaining balance is $675, then two weeks later we checked the portal and it showed we owe him $55 because he had to have house sprayed for roaches he claimed a month after we moved the house was infested with, which I told him I can’t control what happened to house a month after we moved which was July 15, he also noted $600 charge for deep cleaning. We patched all picture hanging holes and repainted ourselves, we even shampooed the carpets ourselves, he did a walk through a week before we moved out and found no signs of roaches as he claimed after we moved and I sent him pictures of every room after we moved out to show every wall was repainted and carpets and rooms completely clean and he said looked good. We did more than what was required of us when we moved out to insure we would get deposit back and he isn’t even overseeing the property anymore bc it is being foreclosed on and house is vacant so I find it hard to believe he paid $700 for pest control and cleaning on house he is not renting out again and that he didn’t do for us when we moved in. We never received a garage door opener or a key to pool so we paid $1900 a month for a year and never even got to use the pool, after all the emails I sent of repairs needed he only fixed leaking sink that’s it and to top it off two months before our lease was up we started getting people at the door looking for owners, we gave them landlord contact information and after a month of him not answering them they came back and told us the house was being foreclosed on and he never notified us until a month after I emailed him about people coming to the house so we was forced to push our move out up 2 weeks because we had no idea if we was going to be put out or not because he refused to answer us or the bank. Besides a year of neglect from him bottom line is SC law requires landlord to notify tenant in writing within 30 days of deductions taken from security deposit with itemized bill showing what deductions went towards and amount or landlord forfeits entire amount of security deposit which means instead of owing us $700 he now needs to return the whole $3800 deposit regardless of what damages he claim he had to pay to have fixed, we are now past a month from lease end and a month and a half past actual date we moved out and he has not notified us at all that he wasn’t returning any of our deposit.