Help the Daily Cardinal Investigate Your Landlord!

This is an interesting approach to the fall dilemma . . . I've often thought what we need is a class action lawsuit over carpet cleaning fees, because students are taken for probably $100,000s each year. . .

Each year, many students are shocked when their lease ends and they find huge deductions on their security deposits. Oftentimes, students argue that these deductions were for illegal cleaning and repairs (i.e. peeling paint, ordinary cleaning, etc). Other times, students say their landlords charged for repairs and never fixed anything!

The Daily Cardinal is making sure landlords don’t overstep this year by cross-checking tenants’ security deposit deductions with evidence and observations from new tenants to see which deductions are legit and which are bogus.

We need as many tenants involved as possible, so if you’d like to help, please e-mail reporter Ryan Hebel at rhebel@dailycardinal.com for more details.

Thanks and happy move-out!

It'll be interesting to see what he turns up!