Romanczak v. AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

Opinion

LAVINE, J.

This appeal involves a dispute between a landlord and two of its tenants over the landlord’s withholding certain legal fees from the tenants’ security deposit. The plaintiffs, Krystopher Romanczak and Bryan Dumelin, appeal from the judgment of the trial court, rendered after a trial to the court, in favor of the defendant, AvalonBay Communities, Inc. On appeal, the plaintiffs claim that the court improperly determined that they were in breach of the subject lease and not entitled to recover the legal fees the defendant had deducted from their security deposit. We affirm the…