Hello,
I moved into an unfurnished apartment a couple months ago and there was a standing cabinet in the kitchen that I did not need, it was not in great shape and a bit rickety. I asked the landlord to remove it as I would not be using it. He proceeded to move it onto my back porch wrapped in a tarp. I was still the winter months so I gave him the benefit of the doubt that he was waiting for the snow to clear to move it out.
I asked him recently if he could take it out completely and he refused saying he had no plan of removing it.
I called a junk removal service and paid to have it removed today. He noticed this happening and yelled at me saying I had no right to remove the cabinet because I had rented the apartment with the cabinet in it but the unit was rented unfurnished.
Was I allowed to have this removed? Am I allowed to charge him the bill for the removal? Is this worth starting a case with the LTB?
Any insights would be helpful!
Thank you in advance