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Title: Power to the little people
Post by: wombatie on October 23, 2013, 01:39:01 am

My daughter was renting a house for 6 months and the landlord was a money hungry pig.  Lots of things kept breaking down and on one occasion he refused to get it fixed so she rang the Ombudsman and it was fixed immediately.  But because of this and the fact that she refused to stay after the 6 month lease was up he went through the house with a fine tooth comb to find something wrong.  Well he did, there was a broken fly screen door, which my husband could have fixed in less than 5 minutes. He wanted her to pay $81to get it fixed or not get her bond back of $1500, >:( when she refused because the screen was broken before she moved in he thought that he could frighten her by taking her to the Tenancy Tribunal, Sara's answer was "Bring it on".  Sara found a photo that was taken before she moved in and low and behold in the very corner of the photo you can see that the screen needed mending.  She got the photo enlarged and took it to the tribunal and won her case.  ;) Then the judge told the landlord that he was greedy and that the repair to the screen would not have cost $80 it may have only cost $20 and that he was to pay all court costs.  :P So the little people do win sometimes.  :)

Marg 

Title: Re: Power to the little people
Post by: mickey357 on October 23, 2013, 03:36:40 am

Good for her. Love when the little folks win.

Title: Re: Power to the little people
Post by: rob roy on October 23, 2013, 05:37:36 am

A young lady after my own heart Marg. Must be a bit of Scottish blood in her. Great to see the small fry eating the Big Fish for a change. ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
Rob Roy.

Title: Re: Power to the little people
Post by: Dan26 on October 23, 2013, 07:50:52 am

Great, uplifting story. Thanks for sharing.

Title: Re: Power to the little people
Post by: Al W on October 23, 2013, 08:47:25 am

Good on her.  Pleased to hear the fine outcome.    Sounded like a decent judge as well.

Al

Title: Re: Power to the little people
Post by: BilltheDiver on October 23, 2013, 09:28:46 am

Congrats to her for standing her ground!  Must be due to good parenting.

Title: Re: Power to the little people
Post by: EIEIO on October 23, 2013, 09:40:34 am

Good lesson for anyone putting up a security deposit.

Title: Re: Power to the little people
Post by: GrayBeard on October 23, 2013, 11:53:05 am

That girl was raised the right way!

Good on you both!

~~~GB~~~

Title: Re: Power to the little people
Post by: Billy in Va on October 23, 2013, 03:42:50 pm

Glad to here she won in the end Marg.  But you gave me a scare at first- the mone hungry pig -  I thought my x-wife was the landlord.

Title: Re: Power to the little people
Post by: Wheelchair@53 on October 23, 2013, 06:29:53 pm

Great story...... very cool

Title: Re: Power to the little people
Post by: cdrover(Clyde) on October 23, 2013, 08:31:14 pm

That is the stuff I like to hear. Stick to your guns when you know your being taken advantage of, good for her!