Posted by John Merchant on November 11, 2009 at 10:34:22:
In Reply to: Re: lease termination notice posted by Edwin on November 10, 2009 at 11:30:29:
If he were here in WA State he'd have broken the law withholding any deposit for that rent unless he very carefully followed our Tenant friendly law.
So best rule is read and know your LL/T law BEFORE even renting, but certainly before withholding or messing with T's security deposit.
As a lawyer if I had a choice of representing T or LL these days I'd always pick T as law, public opinion, sympathy are all on T's side and the LL is always an evil, avaricious Simon Legree.
I've taken money from LLs who wrongfully just withheld that security deposit BEFORE they learned our law on it.
I'd bet there's LL Rental Ass'n that a PA LL could join and that would educate the PA LL as to how to operate his rentals totally according to PA law and not get himself into trouble.