Kirkland landlord steals deposits and does not allow bathroom use after hours
I recently moved out a condo in the Houghton/Westview lake area. I moved to 6625 Lakeview Dr., #201, Kirkland Wa October1st, and moved out October 31st. This was a month to month lease. The deposit and rent were $1150 and paid in full. The agreement included a shared kitchen and bath. After the first two days the landlord who lives in the condo, said he might be giving me 10 days notice because he didn’t like the smell of the incense I burned to give relief from the stench coming from the kitchen which he said he would take care of. It was bags and bags of garbage under the kitchen sink and the vanity in the hall by the bathroom. The freezer and fridge are filled with rotting food and the stench is unbearable. The room I rented shared a makeshift wall with the kitchen which makes it so that every sound, especially the plumbing, can be heard loudly enough that you must pause any program you may be watching and all conversation unless you speak just short of yelling.
I was not allowed to use the restroom after 10pm without his calling me and talking about how disturbing the toilet flushing is and how it may not work out because he really doesn’t want roomates. This would be an hour to two hour call on my cell, while I live in the same condo and he is right down the hall. But he would wash his hands, clear his phlegm and wash up in the kitchen at 2am or 3am on a regular basis, and if I complained he threatened to give notice. There is no heat provided in the room and a space heater is necessary but if the heat bill goes up he charges you, even though heat was supposed to be included.
Bottom line is I gave notice, moved out and left the place cleaner than when I moved in. He agreed to give me back my deposit as soon as the new tenant moved in. Two days after I left there was someone in my old room. When I asked him about my deposit he said he was keeping it for cleaning and making the first month free for the new guy. This is the same thing he did to the tenant before me and he also took this mans money. He had informed me a week after i moved in, in passing, that he routinely does this if he can and doesn’t like the tenant and juggles the money and no one gets their deposit back. He was filthy, disgustingly would spit whatever came out of clearing his sinus’ and throat into the kitchen sink and on the faucet and area surrounding the sink.
The worst part was in order to keep the peace for that horrible month it was necessary to urinate in a bucket in the room or if early enough walk up to the PCC before 11pm. There are no locks on the bath, the vanity area or the other rooms, only his and he entered any room and bad mouthed any person to the other roomates regularly.
The condos are run by a condo association and if anyone has any idea how to contact them and inform them of this man’s activities I would appreciate that information.
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