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    Default Landlord Claiming Outrageous Claims

    My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Florida

    First off, this is the second year in a row in which I believe my landlord has made an over-priced claim on my deposit. My roommates and I spent a considerable amount of time fixing and cleaning the house in hopes of getting a portion of the deposit back and to still be charged 375$ for a cleaning fee seems to be outrageous. We had one roommate who moved back home prior to the end of lease and refused to fix or replace items broken in his room. We were on four separate leases, so how can the landlord make a claim from the sum of all our deposits for damage to one room in which we had no access to fix or clean? Also I have a bank statements of the pet deposit being paid and emails in which we asked him to fix the closet door which never got fixed.

    I have a link of the claims letter we were sent, and a video we took after the house was cleaned.

    Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tHeX4jQoqQ

    Letter (scroll to the 3rd page) : http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0...thkey=COPxmKMC

    Last year, I proceeded to clean the townhouse in front of the landlord and at the time she said it would suffice only to find out she claimed the entire deposit to clean. So this year for this kind of nonsense to happen again has really gotten me irate and ready to take action. What kind of action should I take against this guy?

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    Default Re: Landlord Claiming Outrageous Claims

    from what i understand in the landlord and tenant act a cleaning fee in part of your deposit and should be returned as a deposit. secoundly it states in landlord tenant act that if it was given to you cleaned and you gave it back to them cleaned proffessional or not but in same manner cleaned then they have to give it back

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