Our House Deposit(Lack There of)

So in March I made a blog talking about how property management places will try to screw you over when it comes to your deposit, well, it happened.(Reference this blog post  http://theflarida.blogspot.com/2012/03/boxes.html)

We finally received our check with what we got back from our Deposit and it was way lower then what my wife and I had imagined.  Out of a $1,000 deposit we received $443.75 of that back, WOW, are you serious, below is a picture of the "Itemized" list of expenses that they needed to make the house ready for a new tenant. Lets delve deeper into this.

So, the first thing.
$118.75 for Carpet Cleaning.  I'm not going to lie, this is the one thing that I feel is legitimate, we did not clean the carpet int he house or have someone come and clean it, I feel like this is justified and legit.  Carpet cleaning isn't cheap, so yeah, this is good.

Second.
$187.50 for House cleaning.  I would understand this if we had not cleaned anything in the house at all, but my wife cleaned both bathrooms inside and out along with the other rooms in the house.  The only things that weren't completely done were the floors which had not been mopped but had been swept and the upstairs carpet had been vacuumed.  The Kitchen was the worst, we did not clean off the counters, clean inside the fridge or the stove.  Other then those things we cleaned everything else.  I'm not sure what house cleaning company's charge but isn't this a little expensive for the kitchen and floors.  What do you think.

Third and Last(This one is my favorite).
$250.00 for Window Cleaning(Estimate).  WTF!!!!  Are you kidding me, that's not even the real bill for that, it's a guess at what it would have been if they had asked the cleaning company.  This is the most bullshit of them all, I think that even with just the two charges above we would have been fine, but this charge is the most ridiculous of them all.  Window cleaning should of been included with the House Cleaning when the company who did it cleaned the house.  Like I said already, the thing that pisses me off the most is that there is no way this is the correct amount, to be honest I really feel like this is some sort of made up thing in order to squeeze as much money out of our deposit as they could.

So, there you have it.  This is the proof that your property management or landlord will undoubtedly try to screw you over when it comes to you getting back your deposit.  So take this information with you and use it to your advantage, use it to help you out as much as you can because this will most likely happen 9 times out of 10.  So there, you have been warned.