Deposit problems

By Savanna

I need information about receiving a deposit back my house that I was renting was cleaned very well when I moved out and I have pictures and the landlord is refusing my deposit back also he has not contacted me since we moved out ive been trying to get him to answer me and it’s been over a month and he just responded what can I do legally?

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Deposit problems

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I moved out of my old apartment on January 4, 2011. We signed all the move out papers, and gave them a forwarding address for the deposit to be returned at. We had a move out inspection with maintenance, and he said everything look wonderful, except for some torn blinds that we would have to replace, which was not a big deal to us.
We called 2 weeks later inquiring about our deposit refund, and they said we would be getting about $350 back out of our $450 deposit, and check would be coming soon with an itemization. Then we called back 2 weeks later, saying we still haven’t recieved anything, and they said that now we owed them an additional $240 on top of taking our whole $450 deposit, and again, that the bill would be coming in the mail. In this charge included about a $400 carpet charge, which after us living there for only 2 months was tearing up at the seam. They had someone come in and "fix it" after we complained about it, which all they did was attempt to sew the seam back together and they flat out told us that it would just keep coming apart because they built these apartments up way too fast with poor quality. We had a talk with our maintenance about this before we moved out, and he said we would NOT be charged for the carpet. They also added in a charge for a full replacement of vinyl, which I haven’t the slightest clue where they would replace this at, we never had any problem with the vinyl.

Thanks for everyone’s help!

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