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JACOB SLATER & another v. TRAYNOR MANAGEMENT, INC., & another., 101 Mass. App. Ct. 705 (2022)

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JACOB SLATER & another v. TRAYNOR MANAGEMENT, INC., & another., 101 Mass. App. Ct. 705 (2022)
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JACOB SLATER & another v. TRAYNOR MANAGEMENT, INC., & another., 101 Mass. App. Ct. 705 (2022)
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Massachusetts (state)
Effective Date
2022-09-16

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Under G. L. c. 186, § 15B (4), "[t]he lessor shall, within thirty days after . . . the end of the tenancy as specified in a valid written lease agreement, return to the tenant the security deposit or any balance thereof," [Note 12] subject to certain permissible deductions not applicable here. Here, the landlord asserts that its claimed attempt (through Traynor's telephone call) to return the deposit to Slater, if proved at trial, would insulate it from liability under the statute. The judge ruled that any dispute of fact regarding the telephone call was not material, because nothing in the statute protects a landlord from liability where that landlord has merely attempted, unsuccessfully, timely to return the deposit. In these circumstances, we agree with the judge.