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...186, § 15B(7), for failure to return a security deposit to a tenant as required by § 15B(6)(e) arises when the landlord “fails to return to the tenant the security deposit . . . within thirty days after termination of the tenancy...
...Because the amount of the alleged damages exceeded $1,600, the landlord did not return any portion of the security deposit to the tenant.
On September 23, 2020, the deposit not having been returned, Slater sent a text message to Traynor, stating that he had sent an e-mail message to her with his and Alessi's addresses "for our security deposit but I...
Because the new owner is not a party to this litigation, we do not decide what rights an original landlord might have against a new owner, upon either returning the security deposit to a tenant or paying treble damages to...
landlord had not returned any portion of the plaintiff’s security deposit ($450). The Appellate Division concluded that the quoted language refers to security deposits “under tenancies still in existence on the effective date and not to funds held contrary...
[Note 6] That same day, Alessi, who previously had an informal agreement that Slater would pursue return of the security deposit on behalf of both of them, signed and returned a contract to be represented by Slater's attorney.
There is elaborate regulation of the handling of a deposit upon transfer by the landlord of his interest in the premises. At (5). A landlord is bound to return the deposit to a tenant within thirty days after termination of...
the return of the security deposit. A representative of the
fails to return to the tenant the security deposit or balance thereof to which the tenant is entitled after deducting therefrom any sums in acordance with the provisions of this section, together with any interest thereon, within thirty days after...
Pursuant to § 2 (c) of G. L. c. 93A, the consumer protection statute, the Attorney General has issued a regulation regarding late return of a security deposit as an unfair practice. 940 Code Mass. Regs. § 3.17 (4) (c) (1978).
...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...
2. The judge correctly allowed multiple damages ($328.06 plus interest accrued) for the defendants’ failure to return the plaintiffs’ security deposit after termination of the tenancy, as required by G. L. c. 186, § 15B.
If Ferguson had remained the lessor, he would have been liable for failure to return the deposit upon the expiration of thirty days following termination of the occupancy. G. L. c. 186, § 15B(4); see also (6)(e) & (7). Section...
...186, § 15B (6) (e), a landlord who fails timely to return the security deposit plus interest forfeits the right to retain the deposit. A landlord's noncompliance with that provision entitles a tenant to "damages in an amount equal to...
The law is clear that where, as here, there are no permissible deductions from the security deposit, the entire deposit plus interest must be returned within thirty days after the end of the tenancy, and the failure to do so...
...The tenant also claimed treble damages, costs, and interest, alleging that the landlord had deposited the security deposit in an out-of-State bank and failed to return the deposit on the tenant’s demand, in violation of G. L...
...Immediately after moving out, Slater contacted an officer of the landlord, Wendy Traynor, to ask when the security deposit would be returned. On September 1, 2020, Traynor sent a text message to Slater acknowledging that the landlord was holding the...
landlord to return the security deposit "[w]ithin thirty (30) days" of lease termination, except that the landlord could
After vacating the Unit, Fennelly received two checks in the mail from JRM totaling $953.61, which represented the return of her rental payment for June of 2000 and her security deposit on the Unit. (Second Fennelly Aff. ¶2.) Fennelly...
ings of fact we learn that the back of the check carried a form of endorsement which read: “Return of security deposit on 95 Kilsyth Road, Apartment 2 — by cashing of this check, we release Jerald Feldman and Veronica Realty...