Did you ever damage your apartment?

Why didn't you tell them? That is an accident under "ordinary wear and tear" -- it's not like you fell against the mirror or something. They should replace it. You should tell them. It sounds like it wasn't installed correctly. How can you not greet your pretty mug in the morning???

I dropped a hot skillet on a rental apartment's kitchen floor once and it melted the linoleum. They cut out the damaged part and put in a new piece. Really, you couldn't even tell after they fixed it. I didn't have to pay anything.

I don't know what a "bond" is but also I don't know why you are being made to pay for the damage.

In this same apartment I am in now I once dropped my bathroom cup in the sink (china cup, not heavy) and it didn't break...but suddenly I was shocked to see a HUGE HOLE in the sink. I looked this up online. It could have been there was a hairline fracture in the sink when they installed it...and moisture was probably seeping in the hairline crack for awhile.

I filed a work order, then went on vacation. When I came back they had installed an entirely new sink. Of course no charge to me.

For the next three days I am having workmen in my studio...to tear out the wall, fix the problem, built new wall, paint new wall etc. etc.

I feel a little guilty because maybe the nail I stuck in the wall did it.

On the other hand...if they determine where things should not be hung...they should just add it to the instruction packet at lease signing. There are MANY instructions...how to care for the stainless steel appliance...how to care for the counter tops (who knows what they are made of)...how to care for the laminate flooring. They can just add what walls to not hang things up on.

Modern apartments are called "luxury apartments" but they are fragile pieces of crap. I cannot imagine what this place is going to look like in 20 years.

Back in the 80's I was living in an east coast city in an old apartment with my boyfriend (future husband) and somebody wall papered the bathroom in this really funky snakeskin pattern.

One night I got into an argument with the boyfriend and kicked a hole in the bathroom wall. OMG! It was serious and right through the wallpaper.

At the time I was a freelance photographer and I also worked at a zoo. I happened to have an 8" by 10" photograph of snake skin! I taped it over the wall...and it was shocking because it matched up perfectly!

We left it like that when we moved out and nothing was ever said! It was art!

II was the first person to occupy my Texas apartment, I was there 12 years. I put up stuff on the walls and screwed a cat bed onto the picture window but before I left I filled in all the holes. But my cat dug at the carpet to my bedroom and a stick of incense burned an incense line on the carpet but because I'd been there so long it didn't matter as they had to replace the carpet anyway. The cops busted in my door during a "wellness" check but the cops had to pay to fix that.

I don't like complaining. I like being the tenant who quietly pays his rent on time every month and who causes no problems. I don't even like being seen around the building. The manager once said he doesn't even know whether I'm home or not, and I like that because it means I'm not causing any problems. I use a handheld mirror for shaving and combing and that's fine. I do plan on telling the manager eventually, though.

Wow. That's some history. Once I had a homeless person in my neighborhood batter my front door. (Long story.) It had a metal guard on the bottom that got kinda bashed. When they repainted the door (color scheme change) they just replaced the metal guard no questions asked. That does happen when you stay in a place long enough.

Well, I have talked to maintenance guys about the things tenants do in their apartments and believe me your thing is like...not even a thing!!! I wish you WOULD tell your manager to see that you can be a good tenant AND request them to fix things.

Also, consider this. One time a property manager told me that reporting things to be fixed as they happen IS being a good tenant. Because what property managers don't like is a long list of things to do in an apartment after a tenant leaves because the tenant ignored things that needed fixing. I took that advice to heart and now report things as they happen. Accidents are not the same as damage.

In my other story about kicking in the bathroom wall...that was damage!!! It was the only time I caused damage... but I was 23 years old then and I guess just an idiot. Now I would say I am a pretty good tenant.

I am not thinking about what they will do when I move out. In Australia if you rent before moving in you have to pay a bond. The bond is four times the weekly rent which is held in trust for when the tenant moves out. This is to cover any possible unpaid rent or damages. Therefore if my rent is 250 per week I would have to pay $1000 up front and another $500 for the actual rent. If I damage the place then or fall behind in the rent the money is taken out of the bond to compensate the owner.

Okay. What we have in America is a security deposit...which varies. But same thing. Damage cost would be subtracted from the security deposit. In my experience only unseasoned managers subtract anything. My ex and I once had an owner of a house we rented subtract $200 from the security deposit because they said we didn't dust a few closet shelves, and the toilet wasn't clean enough. That was just plain stealing on their part.

UPDATE!!! IT WASN'T ME!


Yeah, so they came and ripped out the wall in my bathroom...and nothing! Now they are going to the apartment upstairs to do the same. That is, rip out their wall. Still gonna have THREE MORE DAYS of people in my apartment...the air conditioner guys still have to come out and look at it...although everything looks fine and no lines punctured...then the dry wall guy has to fix the hole they made in the wall...then the maintenance guys have to come back to paint the wall.

The maintenance guy said the nail did not even go through the wall. So....duh...

They still don't know why the air conditioning in the unit downstairs isn't working.

Well, I am glad someone is making money during this pandemic doing a lot of non-productive stuff.

I'm in a very nice conference room with wifi and a view (more than I can say about my apartment) so I'm happy.

BUT THIS IS A FUN THREAD...LET'S KEEP IT GOING!

I once destroyed my garage with a hockey stick. Then I threw my trash cans on the roof. Then I punched the fridge. And I'm still married - pre-lithium.

In the very first place I rented I had a week's rent deducted because I returned the key's a couple of days after I had cleaned the place. Never did that again.

Some landlords need the riot act read to them. On the other hand I have seen some places absolutely trashed by tenants and the bond will never cover the costs owed to the owners.

You're right....it does go both ways.

So they intend in ripping out walls until they find something? Sounds like dumb and dumber. Why dont they replace the faulty unit and see if that fixes it. I would hate to be paying the repair bills for this. And no it isnt nice having strangers in your own home.

It's central air conditioning so all these lines run through every apartment's walls up to the roof where there is some kind of condenser. Only one unit doesn't have AC...in my place everything works great. So it isn't even my problem. They think a line is broken somewhere along the way. Yeah, so they are just ripping out walls!


They ripped out my wall then today called me and said the air conditioning people can't come out for a week. They have to look at the lines in my place to determine they are okay. The maintenance men already said they were okay...there was no leak or anything. But the air conditioning guys have to investigate it before the hole in the wall is fixed. So I have a plastic bag over an enormous hall in the wall, had to clean up plaster dust, and everything is out of my bathroom.

I have decided am not re-signing my lease...so am busy looking for a new place. If I was staying here I would probably be more upset. Stay in one apartment long enough and something bad happens.

My last apartment had water leaks so bad I had to move my bed out into the living room. They kept giving me "updates" about how they were trying to find the leak. Then lease time came around, the leak hadn't been fixed, and they had the nerve to raise the rent a couple hundred dollars because they said they were going to redo the kitchen (which was absolutely fine as it was) -- so I moved. They were going to have me move to an empty apartment for two months while they redid the kitchen in my place...with all my stuff in it. And paying increased rent. Like WFT!


These two places are advertised as "luxury" complexes and have great curb appeal and look beautiful in photographs. All of it is BS.

Ah the joys of renting.......... I hope you can find another place that needs less doing to it. Good Luck

Thanks. It is what it is. I was a homeowner (older home) and it had its headaches, too.


The apartment I am in now was brand new when I moved in. I was the first tenant. So that was a thrilling experience as a renter.

Not an apartment but one time when I was 14 I got super enraged and went around a room in my treatment center and was throwing picture frames and other stuff and I think I caused about $100 in damages.

I was such a mess when I was 13-14. I was in so many treatment centers and hospitals. God all those 1 on 1 teacher aids and those ****ing reward programs.