Volume 124 Issue 135
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Monday, April 16, 2012
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Damages to an apartment can cause issues with complex and the deposit
KAYLA BANZET
kbanzet@kansan.com
Trying to make a newhome more decorative and cozy is a top priority for many, but decorating a rented house or apartment can cost the renter his or her security deposit.
Many apartment complexes and rental homes in the Lawrence area require tenants to pay a security deposit before moving in. This deposit is to protect the owner from property damage. Jennifer Girard, assistant manager of Campus Court at Nismith, 1301 West 24th Street, said those deposits help protect the proptery and the tenant.
"It is protection for us and really the resident themselves because they aren't having that additional charge when they are moving out if their security deposit is able to cover any damages." Girard said.
Deposits can range anywhere from $100 to a payment of the first month's rent. Sometimes landlords waive the deposit fee
but expect tenants to pay for any damages upon moving out. Gordon Cave, a junior from Augusta, moved into The Reserve, on West 31st street without having to pay a deposit.
"There was a special when I signed with them." Cave said. "If I
"We use t-pins to hang up art and other items around our apartment. They do minimal damage."
use anything larger than a standard nail in the wall it is considered damage and I'll have to pay a fee."
At Campus Court, Girard said, tenants are more than welcome to decorate their apartments but when they are liable for any damage. Nails and thumbtack holes in the wall for hanging pictures usually do not leave much damage but bigger holes in the wall can be a problem
Troy Aiden, maintenance supervisor at Campus Court,said it depends on how big the wall damage is, but it can take time and money to repair a hole in a wall.
"It depends on the size and if it is a big hole you have to fix it, texture it, let it dry and paint it," Aiden said. "It can take a couple of hours."
Small thumbback and finishing nail holes are usually an easy fix for the maintenance, but even they can cost.
"We just use caulking to fill in those holes but it is time consuming if there are a lot of them," Aiden said.
If damages are excessive, tenants could not only lose their full deposit but owe a landlord more money. Fees can add up when landlords and maintenance crews fix wounded walls. On top of decorating damages, management also looks at cleanliness of the rental property.
"We have charges that we go off of in our resident handbook," Girard said. If they leave paint on the walls and never painted them back, the carpet was ruined and they didn't clean the apartment, they can look at a couple thousand dollars You don't see that commonly though."
"We're not allowed to nail anything in, but we can hang stuff up as long as it doesn't do a lot of damage," Carlson said.
ERIN CARLSON
Towanda senior
"We use t-pins to hang up art and other items around our apartment. They do minimal damage and are easy to move around."
Carlson said she had been able to buy boxes of t-pins for $5, and found that white toothpaste could cover over any
holes the pins made.
There are other alternatives to decorating without losing your deposit. Girard suggested choosing items that are light, that you can hang with smaller nails and putty that you can buy at WalMart. She said it's a better choice than putting a hole in the wall.
Using hooks with sticky backs prevents damage to walls, too.
If a resident is not planning on living in a home for long, they could save money by not decorating.
"Really I would say if you're in an apartment and you're not going to be there long I would avoid hanging things like actual pictures and just hang things like posters." Girard said. "It's going to be cheaper for you in the long run and to start out with."
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defense. He told the Lawrence Journal-World a week ago that he struggled to keep up with Tyshawn Taylor in early practices.
The first time we'll get to see McLemore in action on James Naismith Court is Oct. 12 for Late Night in the Phog. The players will jog out of the tunnel and form layup lines. Those layup lines will slowly evolve into dunk lines.
In all honesty, though. Self didn't sign McLemore to be a lockdown defender.
McLemore will throw a couple dunks down. Sleepy eyes in Allen Fieldhouse will suddenly open wide.
Freshman Maria Belen Ludena returns a serve to her Bradley opponent during Saturday's match-up at the Jayhawk Tennis Center.
The Ben McLemore experience will officially and finally begin.
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that, but we just seriously need to start getting at it. We're capable of doing this. We just have to believe for real."
Kansas snagged the doubles point early in Friday's match against rival Mizzou, sealed by a 9-8 (5) tiebreaker victory at the No.2 spot for sophomore Paulina Los and freshman Maria Belen Ludueña. Junior Monica Pezzotti and sophomore Dylan Windom won had the other doubles win, an 8-4 rout.
Friday match was the first time in nearly four weeks where the Jayhawks won the doubles point, and it was the team's first in Big 12 play this season.
"The most important point is the doubles point," junior Victoria Khanevskaya said. "After getting the doubles point, it's always easier to go to the singles matches because of confidence."
But the Tigers bounced back
quickly, reeling off four straight singles wins to own what may be the final tennis chapter of the Border Showdown rivalry.
Windom and Dreyer's wins at the No. 4 and 5 spots only made the final score appear more competitive.
KU took the doubles point yet again in the 6-1 loss to Iowa State, but failed to pull out any singles matches. Before the match, the Cyclones were the only other team in
the big 12 without a dual match victory in conference play.
The Jawhaws' final opportunity to win a regular season conference match will come Saturday against the Kansas State Wildcats in Manhattan. Kansas State is one of three Big 12 teams not ranked, along with Kansas and Iowa State. The Wildcats currently sit at 3-5 in conference dual play.
"We have to win," Khanevskaya
Five days later, all Big 12 teams will head to College Station, Texas to compete in this year's Big 12 Championships, which run from April 26-29.
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said. "We cannot lose this match because it's winnable. We're always able, but I would say with this match we must win."
Crist when he arrives in June
McDonald played in the U.S. Army All-American bowl following his senior year of high school, and Scout.com ranked him as the eighth-best middle linebacker in his class. During his four seasons with Notre Dame, McDonald played in 28 games. He played in all 12 games of the 2009 season, and he played 11 games in 2010, but McDonald appeared in only four games in 2011 because of injuries. In one of McDonald's game appearances last season, he recorded three tackles against Navy.
By adding McDonald, Weis' first recruiting class at Kansas has 25 players,14 of whom transferred from another NCAA institution or a junior college.
Ethan Padway