I moved out May 31st, 2006. I paid a security deposit of $350 plus another cat deposit of $200. I paid with cashier's checks most of the summer and that is how I paid for my pet deposit. So basically my deposits equal $550 total. I lived there through my entire contract and did not leave earlier or break the contract.
Now it is August 23rd and I have not received a security deposit yet. I gave them my new address the day I moved out the same time I gave them the keys to my apartment back.
I contacted them two weeks ago wondering why I haven't gotten my money back. Their first response is that "maybe it got lost in the mail, call me tomorrow. Those checks should've been issued to you all ready."
Days pass, call back and they go, "Well we want proof of your cat deposit now and your place was dirty when you left."
It seems like they keep putting off giving me my money back. I read in MN landlords should return deposits or a letter in 3 weeks. Now what do I do??
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Oh and now they're saying that the place was dirty when I left so I may not even get full deposit back. But shouldn't they still give me a letter of receipt of what they had to fix and pay for?? It was dirty when I moved in. The people before me smoked and the blinds were covered in soot or something. I couldn't afford getting new ones for all the windows, but they told me when I moved in that they would replace them. I hardly even had a cat long enough anyway so there shouldn't be pet damage because my cat was 13 years old and died of a tumor. Can cashier's checks be tracked of who cashed them if I return to where I got them to find out. I got it at Walmart.