Landlord Claims Tenant Was Filthy
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00:00Correct.
00:00Did you answer an ad, is that how you found the room?
00:03Yes, on Craigslist.
00:04What was the rent in Ms. Velardi's house?
00:07$1,000 a month.
00:08And you gave her a security deposit of how much?
00:10$500.
00:11You moved in on what date?
00:13The 5th of November, 2016.
00:16And you moved in on what date?
00:17The 5th of November, 2016.
00:20And you moved in on what date?
00:21The 5th of November, 2016.
00:24And you moved in on what date?
00:25The 5th of November, 2016.
00:27And you moved in on what date?
00:29The 5th of November.
00:30And on what date did she give you a 30-day notice to leave?
00:34On January 4th of 2019.
00:37Had you always had tenants?
00:38Yes, I've had tenants for 13 years.
00:40So Ms. Nieto, she does this regularly.
00:43And if you were paying your rent, which I assume you were,
00:46there had to be a reason that she asked you to leave.
00:50She says the reason she asked you to leave
00:52is because you were a pig.
00:54And the room was disgusting, and it
00:57cost at least your security deposit
00:59to clean up after the mess you left.
01:01Right.
01:02What kind of mess was it?
01:03There was no mess that I know of, Your Honor.
01:06OK, do you have photographs of the mess?
01:08I do.
01:09I'd like to see it.
01:11Before, bathroom, bedroom, and kitchen.
01:17Did you have all kinds of food in your room?
01:19Yes, I removed that before, though.
01:21Why did you keep food in your room?
01:23I just did not have time to take it out,
01:25and there was a small trash can in the kitchen.
01:29And the trash was through the entire backyard.
01:31I don't care.
01:32What do you mean you don't have time
01:33to take out garbage that's in you,
01:35and you leave it in your room?
01:36It's ridiculous.
01:37You have a bill for cleaning the room?
01:40For cleaning the room.
01:41Well, I want to see what you're taking away $500 for,
01:45a security deposit.
01:46If you had people come in to clean the room,
01:48you were absolutely entitled to take that off.
01:51This is what I was given from Mrs. Velarde in regards to that.
01:55That is the breakdown that I sent her.
01:58I don't want a breakdown.
01:59And she has a-
01:59I don't care about a breakdown.
02:01I agree.
02:02I just want a bill, which was on-
02:04I agree.
02:05I have $130, a bill.
02:08What other bills do you have?
02:10I have her lease agreement that says
02:11she's supposed to pay me $200 for the bathroom, shower,
02:15and the shower glass.
02:17If she did not leave it clean, it's in her lease.
02:20As far as cleaning the bathroom goes,
02:22I cleaned it myself.
02:23Two hours, two rolls of paper towels,
02:26and a whole gallon of bleach.
02:27You want to show her the pictures of the bathroom?
02:32I actually think, Mrs. Velarde, that your time
02:35is worth something.
02:36I agree.
02:36I absolutely agree.
02:37So we're taking off $130 for the bill for carpet cleaning.
02:42And you're entitled to $200 for the day
02:45for your cleaning up after the plaintiff's mess.
02:48OK.
02:48So you get $170 back of your security deposit.
02:52Next time, don't be a pig.
02:53Take out your own trash.
02:55But-
02:55That's it.
02:56The trash was already taken out when I left the room.
02:59I have a video of the room completely cleaned out.
03:01I would love to see it.
03:04This is the video of the room, how
03:06I left it when I moved out.
03:08Great.
03:17Would you show this video to the defendant?
03:21I have a video of the living conditions.
03:23And the stench in the room was horrendous.
03:26I'm just asking you to look at that video.
03:28She says she took that video the day that she left.
03:32Doesn't show the bathroom.
03:36Doesn't show any trash in the room when she left.
03:38Your Honor, I have an explanation
03:40for those pictures as well.
03:42She was going in my room when I was not home.
03:44And that's how those pictures came about.
03:46OK.
03:46Who took the trash out?
03:48I did.
03:48Is that correct?
03:49This is a video she took.
03:50I was standing there the day that she
03:52took this video when she came and looked at the room.
03:55This is a before video, not an after.
03:58I have the date of this video, which is the day and time
04:01that I moved out.
04:02My question to you, Ms. Velarde, when she left the room for good,
04:06was the trash gone?
04:08Yes.
04:08OK.
04:09The trash was gone, but it was still filled.
04:11Dirty.
04:12And she had guests there that were not
04:13allowed to be there also.
04:15The end of the video is the bathroom and the closet.
04:19Doesn't look bad at all.
04:21No.
04:21Did you clean the bathroom before you left?
04:23I did my due diligence of trying to get it
04:26as clean as possible when I left.
04:28That's a waffy.
04:29Yeah.
04:30I mean, I'm not going to say that it was crystal clean.
04:33I mean.
04:34Right.
04:34I have a witness.
04:35May I say something?
04:36Sure.
04:38Hi.
04:38I just wanted to let you know that after she had moved out,
04:41Val called me over to see the room.
04:43And I can tell you, it was horribly filthy.
04:45The bathrooms were disgusting.
04:46The bedroom smelled.
04:48I think that she's actually entitled to almost $200.
04:53But she didn't take out the trash.
04:54There was no trash.
04:56There was no trash.
04:56There was no trash.
04:57Out of the $500 security deposit,
04:59you're getting back $180.