OKCMallen - the horror stories of deposits and apartments are as numerous as oxygen. The best thing to do is chalk it up to experience and move on. When we moved out of an apartment in Jacksonville they had a maintenance guy do the final walk-thru and he found a scratch on the counter top that was there the day we moved in. I was told not to worry about it at move-in only to be stuck with a $75 repair bill on the way out.

I tried to contact the previous residents to see if they paid for the rapair also but they would return any phone calls. I even tried to talk with the people that leased the apartment after us to see if the repair was made but couldn't reach them either. I talked with the leasing agent, the manager, the district manager, the regional supervisor and I got the same story from all of them. It isn't worth the trouble - try to move on.

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