My former landlord (Avalon) grossly exaggerated cleaning charges after I moved out leaving the place broom swept and clean. I sent them a letter disputing it and asking them to come back with a reasonable compromise or I would take them to court.
They ignored me and reported me to on-site, a tenant screening service. Now I am blacklisted from renting *and* I have a blemish on my credit report. My current lease is up with a new landlord (private owner), but now I cant find anyone who will rent to me.
I refuse to be leveraged and forced to pay fraudulent fees to Avalon. They are holding me hostage. I want to sue or mediate or stop them. They are causing me damages as I am forced to continue to live where I am and the rent is far too high for me to afford and my current landlord is getting angry that I haven't found a new place to move to.
Avalon knew that blacklisting me would force me to pay their fraudulent charges or be blocked from renting. This was a malicious calculated act, and should be illegal. They also did not do an end of lease walkthrough with us, just sent us a bill instead of returning our security deposit for remodeling the entire apartment and putting in a new rug, etc., to make the place brand new, instead of the customary broom swept/wiped down understanding.
Furthermore, their document outlining the charges had a phrase on it that said something like "even if you pay our charges immediately, you might accidentally end up in collections anyway as our policy is to send everyone to collections (!) The fact that they anticipate people will balk at their ripoff charges and automatically send everyone to collections is a display of unmitigated arrogance and gall. They need to be stopped from abusing tenants on the way out and holding their credit scores and future ability to lease over the tenants head as leverage.
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