Re: Who to return the security deposit to. - Landlord Forum thread 360019

Re: Who to return the security deposit to. by Garry on December 10, 2019 @23:02

First, and in my opinion, I don't believe there are any state LL/T laws in the country that address who or why somebody takes presidence over another person in the return of a security deposit. What I have done in these situations, is return any security deposit that a T is to get back, to the last one out the door. Then the BF/GF can fight it out as to who gets what, AFTER they are both long gone from my rental.

However, if you want to, you could send each former T, one half of the returned deposit, and let them fight it out from there. Remember, regardless of which one of them actually paid the original deposit, it benefited BOTH of them, by allowing them to move in TOGETHER as a "couple". So, in the end they will BOTH be benefiting from the return of deposit to each of them.

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