Voting Question: Moved out of our apartment, landlord is charging us to paint. Can we hire?

3 December 2009, 9:03 am

My husband and I moved out of our apartment (in Arvada, CO) a couple weeks ago. We had til the 30th to have the apartment clean. We spent a lot of time cleaning the carpets and washing EVERYTHING to ensure we would get our deposits back. When we moved in we asked if we could paint. The manager (at the time) said "Sure! Any color! Anywhere! We will paint it back after you move out with no extra charge to you.". Well we did paint one and a half walls matte black. Now that we are out the manager is now telling us we were not allowed to paint at all and we should have painted primer over the black until it can be painted the cream color again. Well our lease is up now and we aren't allowed in the apartment anymore to paint. So the manager got a quote from a painting company. $600!!! Which we have to pay for! Do we have the right to hire our own painting company to go in and paint it? Cut down the price a bit for us? Thank you! No, they weren't joking. They offered accent painting for free, but we didn't like the colors they offered, so we asked if we could paint it ourselves. We asked specifically black, they said they repaint with every new tenant, so they would have to repaint anyways.... Read More »

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