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    Default Original Security Deposit and Lease Renewal

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

    We are renewing our lease, and our landlord has increased the rent $100 for the new lease term. This is our 3rd year here, and the original lease (when we initially moved in) stated a security deposit and last months rent to be paid.

    On our new lease that was sent to us to be signed, it states the security deposit is $0. I checked the previous years lease, and it was as well listed as $0.

    A year from now when we move out, are we going to have a hard time getting the original security deposit back? Should the new lease state that we paid the security deposit, or any language similar? The landlords have acted very shady when I brought this issue up to them previously, and brushed it off, refusing to add an addendum or anything to the new lease.

    I don't want to get screwed over $3,000, and if we have a dispute about the security deposit a year from now, will the original lease that stated there was a deposit paid be sufficient in court?

    Please help, thanks!

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    Default Re: Original Security Deposit and Lease Renewal

    Yes. Absent his being able to document that he returned the deposit or applied it to your rent, it still exists.

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    Default Re: Original Security Deposit and Lease Renewal

    Don't lose any of your prior leases.

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