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sam lachs
My question involves a security deposit in the State of: California
Hello, I rented my apartment on a 12 months lease to a tenant who turned out to be a nightmare: illegal drug consumption on property, heavy drinking, exposing other tenants to cigarette smoke despite a no-smoking provision in the lease, frequent after mid-night noise disturbances, consistent late rent payments. All this has been going on for 8 month now. Tenant promised on many occasions to change, but didn't. I finally had it, and gave him a 30 day notice because of multiple violations of our rental agreement. It looks like he is preparing to move by the end of the month. It has been almost impossible to show the place to new tenants, since the place is dirty, messy and smells like cigarettes and heavy BO, and tenant sleeps until 2-3 pm. It looks like I am going to lose one month rent, and it will take a while to restore the place. I have $1200 sec. deposit. Do I have to refund ANY of it, since he violated the lease on multiple occasions, forcing me to ask him to leave early.
Thank you for any help.