Messages from scumlord re furniture
Recently discovered this community and was reminded of this exchange with my ex-landlord 3 years ago. I spent an entire weekend deep cleaning my apartment before moving out after both of my roommates bailed out. One of my roommates left behind a couch that I had no need for, so I requested for the city to pick it up. I placed it next to our dumpster per the instructions on the city’s 311 app, only for my landlord to immediately start harassing me threatening to have them removed (at my expense) if I didn’t move them immediately despite me having proof that the city was coming by to remove it later that week. He insisted that it couldn’t be anywhere near the property, so I ended up driving nearly two hours and dragging it across the street from the building and submitting a new request so he would get off my case. After this lovely exchange, he withheld my security deposit until I threatened him in writing with small claims court per California law and he immediately called me and assured me that a check for the full amount was “in the mail”. Fuck you Leon.