My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: California
To make it short, we lived 5 people in an apartment, and our lease ended end of May. 3 out of 5 people in the apartment were from Europe, but as soon as the lease ended they went back home to Germany while remaining two people (person X and Y still remains here). However, we all paid deposit together of around $4,000 at move-in. The issue is that two of germans who went back home. Our community manager wants Everyone to sign a move-out letter, which states one responsible person to handle the checks, the people who is back in Germany obviously wants the deposit check to be mailed to Germany, while the two remaining people in the US wants it to be mailed to US adress. The leasing office at our community say they can only issue one big check and we have to sort it out ourselves, but this is not possible because no-one wants to sign. Now one of the persons who went back to Germany threatens to Sue person X who remains in the US because she refuse to sign the move-out statement to send the check to Germany, she claims she will use "loss" in her lawsuit.
Person X who still remains in the US were in charge of gathering all the people together in the beginning and applying all together, so she were responsible for everything in the beginning.
My question is, does the people who went back home have any claim whatsoever to file a lawsuit or contact a lawyer regarding this? Both parties refuse to sign a contract to let the check be sent to either one, and the leasing office wont send out two checks.
Please ask me if there are any more details you need to know. Thanks

