SJC Limits Landlords’ Use of Security Deposits
When one of its tenants vacated her apartment without using professional cleaning services, a landlord deducted $115 from her security deposit. It could face a class-action lawsuit.
I Sued My Landlord And All I Got Was My Lousy Security Deposit
In the case of Phillips v. Equity Residential Management LLC, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court considered whether the Massachusetts residential security deposit statute calls for a tenant to be awarded three times his security deposit and his attorneys’ fees, rather than just his security deposit, when his landlord violates the documentation requirements of the statute.
A New Journey On A Well-Trod Path
Before he founded Deposify, Jon Bayle worked as a mergers and acquisitions lawyer for more than a decade, mostly dealing with tech companies.
