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Look at your lease. What, if anything, does your lease say about cleaning fees, both generally and in specific relation to the fireplace?
The Rental Agreement with personal info removed is not that complicated:
http://www.c627627.com/IMG/Other/RentalAgreement.pdf

I get that we live in a world where if you don't know the law / answers to exactly the kind of questions you are asking, that you don't stand a chance in court. But do we have a prayer in small claims court as far as any of the charges go and also what can we say in writing to them to demonstrate to court we tried before going to small claims court - if all there is to the Rental Agreement is in that .pdf file I linked to.