CSI RENTALS SHORT CHANGING MY DEPOSIT

I have been renting an apartment with CSI for the past five years at unit 410 Oxford Heights. I note the exorbitant repairs purportedly conducted at my previous Unit much to my discontent. According to CSI I am only entitled to a meager R500 out of a possible R 7200 refund, which is utterly shocking.

Let us assume they are right, this refund falls short of legislative prescripts because my deposit was paid in August 2020, just over five years ago, and according to the Rental Housing Act, this deposit should have been invested in an interest bearing account, from the date I moved in up until now. I have never been furnished with proof to that effect let alone a statement. Assuming CSI is a law abiding letting company, my invested deposit should have accumulated and accrued substantial interest by now.

I contemptuously reject the inflated "repairs" conducted at the unit. The idea is to make sure that they pay as little deposit as possible to short change outgoing tenants and this I shall challenge with everything in me.

As an admitted attorney who is vested in the law, I cannot possibly let this go unchallenged.

Further, the so called repairs conducted on the unit are unreasonable and clearly inflated.

I hereby request the statement on my invested deposit, failing which, I demand that my deposit be paid in full. I hereby request a response within 24 hours or I shall proceed to approach the Rental Housing Tribunal or a civil court for relief to obtain judgment.