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    Default Landlord is Late Returning Security Deposit

    My question involves a security deposit in the State of: New York (NYC to be specific).

    I moved out of my apartment on time at the end of my lease. Landlord stated it takes two weeks to get the security back. Three weeks go by and I get nothing. I contact them and they said they sent the check out the previous week and that I should wait another week. I wait another week and get nothing (now four weeks past move out). I call someone different and they tell me they just sent the check a few days ago. They also state the check was written to a previous roommate who moved out before me.

    The landlord said they need a permission form from the old roommate to transfer the security to me. The old roommate sent that form in (thankfully) within 24 hours. Now the landlord is telling me it will be another two weeks before they will send out the new check. At the time of this post they are eleven days late returning the security deposit (lease states 30 days).

    I have not seen the incorrectly named check in the mail yet and it is a week since they said they mailed it (as of the time of this post). I do not want to wait another two weeks especially considering I have gotten the run around from them thus far. Do I have any options to make them cut me a check quicker. They just started communicating via email with me and are not responding my calls or emails.

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    Default Re: Landlord is Late Returning Security Deposit

    Did they send out the check to your former roommate or not? If the issue is that they sent the check but are reissuing it now that your former roommate has authorized them to return the deposit to you, they have already issued the refund - and now they're reissuing it for your convenience. Note that if they issued the check to your ex-roommate, they may have sent it to his forwarding address and not yours.

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    Default Re: Landlord is Late Returning Security Deposit

    They state they have sent the check to the address I gave them (with the ex-roommate name on the check) but it has not arrived.

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