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Apartment damage and rental deposit in Poland [20]
Ask for receipts for the rent so that you can give them to the tax office as part of your yearly tax return. Watch as landlord gets frightened.
Landlord's paying tax, it's all legit. :o)
easiest thing is to not pay your last months rent. Have been on the other side of the equation though - had a tenant stop paying then ruin a flat causing me heavy losses. Not a lot you can do about it with the courts being so slow unless you are unemployed and have time to pursue it.
I don't like doing that, call me a fool and I probably am, I can't explain exactly why except to say I wouldn't like that done to me so I don't do it to anyone. In the UK, never once had even a penny deducted from a deposit, but I suppose I won't be so lucky here...
Wrong: make it clear to him that not only will take him to court for the return of your deposit (initially at the e-court), which will waste his time and he'll then end up paying your deposit back and the court costs.
But Jon said it's expensive etc ...? So, won't the LL dismiss it as a bluff and keep hold of the deposit, and laugh in my face, which as it happens is exactly what the noisy neighbours did when I asked them to consider me being disturbed under them when they thump and slam around at 1am as if it were 1pm. "Go live in a house if you don't like noise" chided the well built blonde wife and floor stomper/door slammer par excellence. Her lycra cycling shorts wearing husband could barely stifle his mirth at his wife's reposte and her motormouth-like robust denials. No apology offered of course, except from the dog who came out and wagged his tail at me. Another neighbour apparently moved out above them due to their noise, although for him it was their dog that caused the most nuisance.
Nothing, really.
That's what I fear. It may be Hobson's to do as cms suggests then I s'pose.
