We're a family of five living in Pembroke and are about to move our of our rental unit (an apartment in Pembroke) in two weeks.
Our landlord has given us a 570 Euro bill for repairing the door frame in the bathroom and informed us that he expects us to pay this bill now outside of our security deposit. The door frame was made out of a sort of combination of wood and cardboard and expanded slightly from exposure to water, although not enough to interfere with the operation of the door. The bill is obviously excessive and when the carpenter was here he also measured the other door frames in the apartment (which are old but which we did not damage).
Our landlord has also told us that further bills for damage are on the way. Our kids are 8, 5 and 1 and I would categorize the general damage that we made as "normal wear and tear".
We rented the property through Belair and our agent there (who was quite good) has left Malta.
What are our options and obligations in this case? Should we try to get another Belair agent here for an inspection before we move out? Should we look for a lawyer?
(I should also add that it's been a difficult rental. Our landlord lives under us and is always complaining about our kids running - calling us, coming up to complain, banging the shared pipes, and once even shutting off our electricity temporarily.)