Security Deposit Applied to Fees at Moveout Results in Collection Account
A landlord applied a security deposit toward administrative fees at moveout and referred the remainder to a collection agency without fulfilling the tenant's debt validation request. Individual tenant-landlord dispute with no software market angle.
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