The awareness level among tenants to safeguard the security deposit is up. This is helping them to resist unnecessary deduction on the deposit by seeking legal remedy. Landlords mandatorily take deposit from the tenants as a hedge against possible damage to their property or a safeguard against defaulting on rent.

Know the Rights

But security deposit often becomes a tool of exploitation in the hands of greedy landlords who resort to unethical deduction citing flimsy reasons of damage to their property. It must be known that full replacement cost cannot be slapped on a tenant, if an accessory is not very new.
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