If you've paid your damage deposit, can your landlord charge you again for any damages that have occurred in the apartment?
That's what a damage (and pet) deposit is for (some carpet was pulled up at the front door by the dog, and then the cat, but not much), isn't it?

Is that legal for him to charge us even if he has the damage deposit?
As far as i've known, a damage deposit covers all damages and we don't get it back when we move out if there are damages.

Does anyone know any useful info about this? Particularly Canadian law, but i doubt it would be very different from US law - if anyone has any advice.

The landlord showed up for "inspections" and wrote us up for the damage and being "untidy". Does he even have a say in whether we are clean or not? I try to be, but Sarah's not exactly the tidiest person, and it's hard keeping up, especially since i have a 6-day work week i'm in the middle of, but really - what does he care, and what right does he have to care?

If none of you have any info, are there any websites that you may be able to point me to? I am terrible at reading fine-print legal jargon - my mind just goes into automatic and my eyes glaze over and i don't even remember what i just read (no this was a problem for me way before i even started smoking weed - it's why i never finished reading any of the books school assigned for us, until i started enjoying books) so i either need someone to give me a straightforward response in english, or send me somewhere that has the info outside of a legal-jargon format.

And our landlord is a known scamming dick - he sold Sarah's ex'roommate's blind brother a house with a huge hole in the ceiling. Yah. Not sure why the brother didn't have someone with him to look at the place, but still.

Though i like this apartment, if they're gonna stick us for trumped up charges that our damage AND pet deposit should cover, and for being "untidy", then i think Sarah's moving out thing might be a good idea.

She's been trying to get us to move AGAIN to this other place - a basement suite apparently bigger than this apartment - which i doubt - but the rent is shared with the guy who lives upstairs, thus lower $$$, and free laundry, shared utilities, etc... Plus it's an actual house with a backyard for Milo to play in.

It's all in all a way better deal - but fucking moving? AGAIN?!?! We had enough headache moving last time, plus my entire move from St. John's just more than a year ago. And this time my stuff isn't all in boxes still like it had been waiting for me from the St. John's move, making the recent move to this apartment easier than it could have been.

Oy. Just one pain in the ass after the other.

And i'm still waiting for my box of sketchbooks, etc... from the states.