Page 10 University Daily Kansan, October 16.1984
Ex-tenants resort to court to collect rent deposits
By TERESA RIORDAN Staff Reporter
Some former tenants of Jayhawk West apartments are resorting to small claims court to collect house deposits. Some residents have said they have enough money to pay them back.
Jacks declined to release the name of the Chicago-based owner of the apartments.
Seven small claims cases have been filed in the Specialized Division of the Douglas County District Court against Gold Crown since July 19, 2015. The court has received about 20 complaints about overdue deposit payments.
Small claits court involves cases of less than $500, in which the client represents himself.
Clyde Chapman, director of Consumer Affairs, said he had called Gold Crown five times about customer five times about his calls had never been returned.
Landlords are required under "be Kansas Residential and Tenant Ac to refund the deposit 30 days after the tenant's lease expires or 14 days after payment is received, according to Cynthia Weok, director of KU Student Legal Services.
If the landlord fails to comply, the "tenant may recover that portion of security deposit due together with damages in an amount equal to one and
Settlements have already been awarded to tenants in five of the Gold Crown cases and two are pending.
one half times the amount wrongly withheld," according to the law.
Other tenants say they intend to instigate court action if Gold Crown doesn't pay soon.
"I don't think they'll do anything about the deposit until you take it to small claims court," said Steven Nelson, a former Jayhawk west tenant, who has not yet received his $150 deposit.
*Everytime I call the management, they refer me to Gold Crown, and I call
Kansas City and he tells me he's not in charge of it, that somebody in South Carolina is in charge and then they won't give the address," he said.
"If I knew they were going to do that I wouldn't have paid the last month's rent."
U. S. Shelter, a firm in South Carolina, recently acquired Gold Crown, but Gold Crown remains in charge of Jayhawk West property.
William Martin, Kansas City, Kan., junior, said his roommate finally went to court after waiting two months for the deposit refund.
"They said nothing was wrong with the apartment before we left. We kept
calling and calling and they kept saying the check was in the mail," he said.
Since then, Martin and his roommate won their case on Aug. 23 for $225 plus 12 percent interest to provide incentive for the company to pay promptly.
Martin said they had not yet received enter the original deposit or the court waiver.
Dennis Caulder, who has been the new manager of Jayhawk West since mid-July, said he collected rent and payed him, but he did not refund the deposits.
"All I do is deposit money in the bank. They run all the accounts through K.C.," he said.
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