I am very concerned my LL will take me to court because I don't have the resources to hire a lawyer. He has been hyperbolic and aggressive before, and I can't tell if this is further harassment/manipulation. I know now that we should have been there, and had him sign an agreement on what of the security deposit was expected to return, but as previously stated this is my first apartment.
I've been living in a brooklyn apartment for the past two years. We just moved out on the 31st, and our landlord is claiming the basement door was left wide open. A person ,then, allegedly trespassed and assaulted his wife. He was able to intervene before anything happened, however he used that as an opportunity to threaten to sue us for trauma caused to his wife as well as other damages caused to the apartment. However, he does not have any proof of excessive damage and the tenants moved in the next day. I told him we weren't responsible for the space after the 31st, but he's saying because we had a set of the keys, we were responsible. I can't find any precedence for that being the case, but I'm sure someone here might know better than me.