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Your Two Months Rental Deposit


koolkarl

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Personally have never paid two months deposit, just first and last at the three places we lived, though I’m just as picky about landlords (1: local lanna & 2: they live in cm) as I am about the house and it’s setting, spent over a year looking for the place we’re in now. Always got the refund minus ฿500 cleaning even though we left the place spotless and in the same condition as before. Never dealt with an agent, always directly with the owner.

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3 minutes ago, jippytum said:

it's getting to be normal for them to try. 

 However the way some tenants abuse the amenenties in our condo i'm not suprised. 

It's always been an issue. Somebody took the Landlord to court and the ruling was to split down the middle.

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Not just Thai landlords. I rented a condo from a Brit for 11 years. During that time, I put up half the cost of a new air con and brought in a new refrigerator. Left the place as I had found it. 

 

Landlord refused to return the deposit. Finally threatened to turn him in to Immigration for working without a work permit and working in a reserved occupation - tour guide. He finally returned half the deposit.

 

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4 hours ago, koolkarl said:

Apparently it is a national past time in Thailand for landlords to keep the 2 months deposit.  Has this happened to many of you and if so, what did you do?

Deposit?  Whats that?  Oh no the tenant wanted to pay twice as much for the first 2 months coz he really liked the peeling paintwork affect.

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I have refunded deposits even when I shouldn’t.

 

The only time I kept a 2 month deposit was in Pattaya when someone signed a 12 month contract and wanted to move out after two months, I had a clause in the lease agreement about that, they could provide another tenant acceptable to me and for a small administrative fee, we would change the lease over to them. However, they didn’t offer any new tenant at all and just wanted their deposit back. 
 

I told them if I got a new tenant within two months I would refund that portion of the deposit, but it took longer than that so they got nothing back.

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40 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:


don’t expect a tie court to follow the law. Even when it’s clear cut.

 

We had some children trespass and set fire to some of our property. Under law, the parents are responsible for their children. The damage was about ฿70,000, we sued in the court and we lost, and the judge’s ruling was that the plaintiff was a rich Farang and the defendants were poor Thai people and the rich Farang could afford the loss whereas the poor defendants couldn’t afford to pay.

 

Go figure.

So nothing to do with a deposit then. 

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My family has lived in 4 different houses over the last 8 years and NEVER had a problem with getting the FULL deposit back. I always leave the place in better condition then I receive it. I also don't rent from "fly by night" type landlords. To me it is important to have the right landlord as well as the right house. They go hand in hand. Anytime I had a issue with something, the landlord has always been there to fix whatever. And out of all of the expats that I know, none has ever not received their deposit back.

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I have rented 2 apartments, 3 townhouses, and my current condo.

In every case, I have gotten back all of my deposit.

 

With one exception.

My current landlord, from whom I rented my previous townhouse,

took 6,000 THB from my 100,000 THB deposit, when I moved from

there to here. I felt it was a fair assessment and had no real complaints.

 

All landlords were Thai. All were exceptionally fair and reasonable.

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