My question involves civil rights in the State of: Oklahoma. I had been renting a home since June of 2012. The landlord had said there was going to be a contract but never gave me one. When I first moved into the house they dropped the deposite from 425 to 300 since the house was not clean and did not have a stove. I told them that was ok. I went ahead and changed the gas utility under my name and bought a stove. I was unable to change the electric or water since we did not have a contract. I kept paying my rent every month and kept the house in good condition. In August 12, 2012 I spoke with the landlords wife and told her we were going to move out within 15 days, by the 1st of september. She said well you didnt give us 30 days and i told her i understood that but we had never signed a contract. I told her we could later talk about it when we moved out. I went ahead and cleaned the house top to bottom (washed carpets and cleaned walls, even cleaned each ceiling fan). They went ahead an did a walkin inspection and said everything looked good. She was happy she didnt have to clean. All we didnt do was cut the grass but we did remove all the weeds. They gave us a bill for the electricity and water of 350. I was puzzled and asked about the deposite. She said we werent getting it back. Terrible thing is we even told them they could keep the used stove we bought (in great conditions) thinking we were going to get our deposit back. We were not able to move a couch that was outside that day and told her we would go do it. She said leave it thats fine. This whole time we did not have parking space because they were using it to park their boat and I could not park my car in the garage since they had stuff in there they needed to move out. I am unsure to take them to court. Will i be able to get my deposite back. I told her she could use those 300 towards the bills and then we would pay her anything that was left over. I am upset because we left that home in great conditions , better then when we had moved in.

