Our landlord wants to take out 54 hours of labor from our deposit for painting of walls back to white when they weren't white to begin with, for removing walls that we built when they had the new tenants write into their lease (or so we were told) that they wantedt to keep the walls, so we didn't remove them. Painting the floor when the floor wasn't painted when we moved in and other issues.
What are our methods of recourse? Only housing court? He asked us to submit a notarized 'Acknowledgement of Abandonment' letter that I believe waives our rights from having any recourse with respect to the deposit.
Does anyone have any experience with these. I have never had to submit one before. Should I wait to submit this or go ahead and submit it and then try to take action with respect to the deposit money.