DO NOT EXPECT TO GET YOUR DEPOSIT BACK from Deer Valley Apartments, even if you leave your apartment clean. They make tenants who leave pay for stuff the landlord is legally responsible for. So if you think you only need to leave the apartment clean, think again. They WILL make you pay to repaint (even if you never drove a nail in the wall), and they WILL make you pay to replace the carpeting between tenants.
I lived there twice (almost 7 years) and both times they confiscated my security
...deposits, totaling $800.00 AND WANTED MORE. Before I moved out I paid to have the rental professionally cleaned and to have the carpet cleaned so I could get my deposit back in full. Yet both times Deer Valley charged me AGAIN for cleaning and carpet cleaning, and ALSO charged me for repainting between tenants AND replacing worn carpeting that I had lived on for 5 years or that a prior tenant had already stained before I moved in.
There are many other former Deer Valley tenants who have had their security deposits unlawfully confiscated by this rip-off scam! If you also had such an experience, please share it. Also consider joining in a class action lawsuit against Sequoia Equities, the parent company of Deer Valley Apartments, to squelch these actions which appear to be commonplace both here in Roseville and in other locations where Sequoia Equities owns rental properties.
Deer Valley thumbs its nose at California Civil Code 1950.5(e), which states that a “landlord may not assert a claim for damages to the premises or any defective conditions that preexisted the tenancy” and “landlord may not assert a claim for damages to the premises for ordinary wear and tear” and “The bad faith claim or retention by a landlord or the landlord’s successors in interest of the security or any portion thereof in violation of this section, or the bad faith demand of replacement security in violation of subdivision (j), may subject the landlord or the landlord’s successors in interest to statutory damages of up to twice the amount of the security, in addition to actual damages.”
So when you see these pretty apartments, just remember that after you move out, you will be the one paying to bring the apartment back up to their “luxury, spa-like, resort living” standards. Yes, the law says the responsibility is on them, but they have been getting away with it for so long with so many people, why should they bother to obey the law?
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