Lynn, I don’t now what state Lily is in, but here in MA a landlord is required to keep security deposit and last month’s rent in an escrow account and if it’s not given back then the renter can collect triple damages.
https://www.mass.gov/info-details/security-deposits-and-last-months-rent
He can’t just willy nilly decide not to give it back.
I actually had to play this game in our last apt when we bought our house. The landlord was a lawyer, too. I cut out an article in the paper about it (this was the 80s) and gave it to him about the triple damages. He promptly gave us both back when he’d been planning on keeping them.
Bobbi I hope you are feeling better soon. Days wax and wane, don’t they? Happy Anniversary, too.
Mona, generally if someone wants to switch rooms it’s the person requesting that moves, not asking for someone else to be moved. I get the body fluids and all that. Unfortunately that’s the problem with double rooms. Sometimes there are single rooms but if insurance only covers a double room, the person wanting the single room can be charged. (Where I work we have all single rooms now, but previously I have worked in places with both double rooms and wards!)
Think of it this way. Say your Dad, God forbid, had to go into this rehab/nursing home, because he was ill. He’s put into a room, but the person who’s been in there doesn’t like something about him - maybe it’s that he yells out at night, or he’s incontinent, or he has equipment that makes noise, etc. And that roommate then says he wants your Dad to be moved somewhere else. How would you feel? Would it upset you? It would upset me! So let’s say he then gets put into another room to make the roommate happy. But now the new roommate there wants him moved, too. See where this is going?
If you’re unhappy in a room you can request that you be moved, if they can accommodate that, but it’s really not fair to ask that someone else be removed from the room. It’s not something I’ve ever seen done, either, unless it’s the person requesting the move who moves. Hopefully you get home soon and walking and this can all be behind you.
