Nate Morabito and Vanessa Ruffes discuss a major development in the NC State landlord investigation

A North Carolina landlord with a history of keeping security deposits and charging excessive fees has agreed to pay $25,000 to former renters as part of a settlement.
Attorney General Josh Stein announced Tuesday that the state has settled with Lisa Eustathiou and her company, Apollon LLC.
"Wow," former renter Tyler Parziale, from Charlotte, said upon learning of the settlement. "That's amazing."
In October, a joint investigation by WCNC Charlotte and WRAL News discovered that Eustathiou sent North Carolina State University students, including Parziale, a $23,000 bill and refused to return their $3,100 security deposit when the students moved out of the off-campus apartment they were renting from her.
The majority of the charges in the $23,000 bill stemmed from Eustathiou's dislike of a homemade drinking game table.
"I'm so happy and so relieved," Tyler's mother Carrie said. "To take action, I think, is a message to be sent to any landlord out there that thinks they can get away with this, particularly in a college town."
Eustathiou runs a rental business, renting primarily to college students at NCSU and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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