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Date: October 29th, 2025 1:09 PM Author: brilliant odious range doctorate My buddy moved out of a brand new apartment and they kept his deposit because they said the carpet was damaged and needed to be replaced. The carpet in fact looked basically new, and Georgia won’t allow LLs to keep deposits even for normal wear and tear anyway. So I sued for him, and did it for free because he was just going to let it go, which I assume they count on everyone doing when they pull this scam. Georgia gives treble damages.
Then these fuckers don’t answer the lawsuit at all. Then months later my buddy gets a check for the remainder of the deposit not taken for carpet, which is supposed to be returned within like 30 days. So they wrongfully withheld again after being sued for wrongful withholding just to be cute. And then I get to looking at the itemized fees and stuff and found out they were just charging a made up monthly fee too.
So I look up reviews online seeing if there’s a pattern of all this shit and I find all kinds of reviews saying the same shit from tenants all over the place in different apartments owned by the same company. So I amended the complaint they never answered and added punitives and now I’m going to make this the trial of the century hopefully because fuck these scheming landlords. Gonna get justice for the other tenants who couldn’t afford to sue. |
Date: October 29th, 2025 1:14 PM Author: Charismatic Nursing Home Juggernaut it's amazing how many landlords get away with this crap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49384938) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 1:18 PM Author: brilliant odious range doctorate And they’re like “oh we’ll just ignore the occasional lawsuit because a default judgment of treble damages is a drop in the bucket compared to what we’re making keeping all these deposits.” I’m going to ask for millions in punitives (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49384950) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 1:20 PM Author: Beady-eyed pit you gotta get a low paid property manager to be your witness and reveal the manual or emails where his higher ups tell him to keep security deposits for everyone.
sounds like a grisham novel |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 1:22 PM Author: brilliant odious range doctorate It’s kinda exciting. I will make this into a Netflix movie if it turns into something (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49384958) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 1:53 PM Author: sexy son of senegal sweet tailpipe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49385013) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 2:13 PM Author: adventurous citrine potus Let's do it, bro. Happy to help. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49385076) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 2:15 PM Author: brilliant odious range doctorate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49385090) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 2:10 PM Author: Ruddy Geriatric School Chad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49388215) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 9:16 PM Author: Slimy Crystalline Trailer Park Security Deposit starring Nicolas Cage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49386274) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 9:16 PM Author: orchid church cuckoldry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49386275) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 10:36 PM Author: brilliant odious range doctorate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49386499) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 12:18 PM Author: Pea-brained office marketing idea Update: Just need $50k to get this across the finish line. In exchange you can meet Nicholas Cage and hang out on the set when we're not filming. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49387841) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 1:23 PM Author: orchid church cuckoldry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49388063) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 2:09 PM Author: Ruddy Geriatric School Chad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49388214) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 10:36 PM Author: Wonderful zombie-like library gunner Security Deposit 2: Treble or Nothing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49389403) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 10:40 PM Author: Disrespectful indirect expression travel guidebook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49389408) |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 4:24 AM Author: Salivary Stoned (xoentlaw@gmail.com) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49389672) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 1:24 PM Author: Charismatic Nursing Home Juggernaut (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49384961) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 3:05 PM Author: Transparent Fluffy Gas Station I got to one though his LLC several years ago under the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act. He started fucking tenants as a sale approached, and he thought he'd just hide behind the LLC. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49388355) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 1:16 PM Author: Erotic Home cool it w the antisemitism (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49384941) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 1:23 PM Author: Razzmatazz parlor wagecucks You can’t get millions in punitives from a few thousand dollar deposit controversy.
Amend to make it a class action with your buddy as the class rep.
This is legal advice. |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 1:25 PM Author: brilliant odious range doctorate Never done a class action but I will look into this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49384964) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 1:26 PM Author: Charismatic Nursing Home Juggernaut it's interesting there arent class actions for security deposit fraud against even large LLs. i assume it's still not worth it for pi lawyers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49384965) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 1:28 PM Author: brilliant odious range doctorate No way this is worth it for anyone normal. I take all kinds of garbage cases hoping I’ll get one to go to trial and get trial experience. Trial experience is worth more than the time and money to me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49384972) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 4:22 PM Author: Pontificating Bat-shit-crazy Skinny Woman Place Of Business Attaboy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49385478) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 8:32 PM Author: bearded casino No commonality. Every dispute is different. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49386173) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 12:15 PM Author: Charismatic Nursing Home Juggernaut could a better lawyer than you come up w a commonality argument? i see your point, but there's got to be a more creative way to make them seem the same (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49387829) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 3:06 PM Author: Marvelous fishy corner famous landscape painting You’d want to allege the security deposit withholdings were a practice or policy by the defendant that can be shown through common evidence. They withheld a security deposit for X reason every time someone left, and X reason violates statute Y. Or maybe Defbro had a policy of not adhereing to a statutory requirement every single time they withheld security deposits for whatever reason they withheld it (so the reason they withheld it wasn’t important)
It can be done but you need to frame it carefully.
Can’t allege that plaintiff had his security deposit withheld for carpet cleaning and that therefore all security deposit withholdings for all the renters are therefore illegal because it requires determinations of why the security deposit was withheld for each class member which is an individualized issue. |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 1:34 PM Author: jade rough-skinned toaster The same ownership group probably owns more than one building. He should be trolling for all those other poor schmucks who've been screwed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49384983) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 1:46 PM Author: brilliant odious range doctorate What’s the best way to attempt this? Can I get tenant contact info through discovery and then try to turn the case into a class action? I know nothing about class actions at all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49384999) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 12:37 PM Author: jade rough-skinned toaster I know nothing about class actions. A shitlaw king would do 1 of 2 things:
1. Stick flyers on every car and under every door in the block/building
2. Find one tenant in each building who can help you recruit more |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 3:29 PM Author: brilliant odious range doctorate sounds like a movie scene (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49388398) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 3:13 PM Author: Marvelous fishy corner famous landscape painting In discovery see if you can get any policies they have wrt security deposits. If on its face it contains any violation of a statute in your jdx then that would be grroubds to amend for a class. Doubt you’d have grounds to get a list of all tenants in an individual suit though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49388368) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 3:19 PM Author: brilliant odious range doctorate ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49388379) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 1:44 PM Author: infuriating shrine Very tsinah-esque OP but keep fighting the good fight. landlords are ((scum)) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49384995) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 1:52 PM Author: brilliant odious range doctorate I love suing landlords. I’m involved in another case against a true slumlord that is probably going to trial. I also hate insurance companies and hospitals. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49385010) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 1:58 PM Author: brilliant odious range doctorate Will do. I’ve been collaborating behind the scenes on a lot of different xo content that we may share at some point. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49385024) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 4:53 PM Author: Concupiscible rehab dragon Summon epah and get his advice on spinning it up into a bigger class action suit, he knows how to do that.
I assume landlords have each building in its own LLC but I'm sure with the power of xo's legal minds you can lump them all together and get million$$$$ |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 4:56 PM Author: brilliant odious range doctorate I would definitely appreciate EPAH’s advice. And anyone else who wants to chime in (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49385583) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 5:12 PM Author: Marvelous fishy corner famous landscape painting Class action would be hard because individualized issues would predominate. Have to determine the reason that the LL kept X portion of the security deposit for each class member, and the amount kept would likely also vary.
Now if that other fee/ charge that was mentioned upthread applied to all tenants and was illegal that could be a class |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 5:17 PM Author: brilliant odious range doctorate Ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49385639) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 12:11 PM Author: red hominid if they didnt answer wtf didnt u file for default faggot
and wtf is punitive damages for a contract dispute, i thought there's no punitives for contracts
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Date: October 30th, 2025 1:01 PM Author: brilliant odious range doctorate 1. Because that would’ve ended it and that’s what they wanted me to do, to take the measly treble damages on the original withholding. And then they continue their little scam having only lost a tiny fraction of what they’re making
2. Because they added another count of wrongful withholding by sending the remainder months after the lawsuit
3. Because I discovered there’s a fraudulent fee
There are punitives on willful misconduct, malice, fraud, etc. |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 2:33 PM Author: brilliant odious range doctorate lol im a redneck in rural georgia. this is how you shitlaw (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49388284) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 3:01 PM Author: Marvelous fishy corner famous landscape painting I have never gotten punitives on default for a (statutory) fraud case. I’ve only defaulted 2-3 in that situation but judges here never give me the multiplier. Which really doesn’t matter because if I am defaulting it’s usually not a good sign for collectibility.
actually did get them once in federal court. Judges much smarter there. |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 3:17 PM Author: brilliant odious range doctorate I got 8 figure punitives on one default case a few years ago. Haven’t had this situation come up again until now. That other case was way worse though. Ended up taking his house and salary for a year and he was uncollectible after that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791259&forum_id=2/en-en/#49388375) |
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it seems like such a slam dunk. most states have treble damages and landlords withholding security deposits unlawfully is common practice. |