What to do about an undisclosed leasing fee?
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What to do about an undisclosed leasing fee?
We just moved out of a rental property. We had to break our lease but our realtor said it was fine but we needed to find someone to rent the property to get out. We found someone to rent the property within a week. At no time did the realtor say anything other than that carpet cleaning would be taken out of our deposit and that we’d get that back as well as pro-rated month’s rent. We just got our refund back and he took out $687.50 for a “leasing fee” that he’s never talked about throughout numerous times of us asking for sure that only carpet cleaning would be taken out. Our lease says we’d pay leasing fees until teanant is no longer responsible for rent, we paid that months rent and before the month was up someone else moved in.
Asked on November 2, 2012 under Real Estate Law, Washington
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
The pesumed written lease that you signed controls the obligations that you are responsible for concerning move out. Read your lease carefully and if there is nothing stated within it about you paying for carpet cleaning then you are not obligated to have paid such.
If such is correct, I would write the landlord demanding your $687.50 back by a certain date and if not received then small claims court is your option.
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