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The Search
Putting down cash for your security deposit? Get a receipt

… Moving apartments is an expensive endeavor especially when … it includes the upfront payment of first and last months rent a brokers fee and a security deposit Fortunately you can usually count on getting that deposit …

By Jennifer Laing |October 21, 2014 - 3:02PM
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The Search
Hey, renters with funky credit: One landlord apparently feels your pain
By Leigh Kamping-Carder |October 2, 2014 - 9:59AM
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Sales Market
Beware the Photoshopped listing, settling a security deposit dispute, and more
By Virginia K. Smith |August 11, 2014 - 10:59AM
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Sales Market
What I learned — the hard way — living with 10 roommates in 5 years
By Virginia K. Smith |August 1, 2014 - 8:59AM
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Sales Market
Protecting your security deposit, how to avoid botching a reno, and more
By Virginia K. Smith |July 11, 2014 - 10:59AM
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My landlord won't return my security deposit: What's my recourse?
By Leigh Kamping-Carder |June 30, 2014 - 1:59PM
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Sales Market
Get back your security deposit: When your landlord does (and doesn't) have to pay up
By Lucy Cohen Blatter |May 30, 2014 - 11:59AM
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The Search
The seemingly sketchy (but totally legit) way to lock down a rental before everyone else
By Virginia K. Smith |May 20, 2014 - 11:59AM
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A landlord deducts $500 out of a security deposit for his legal fees. Is this allowed?

… We often receive emails from readers asking for help in navigating their own real estate crises … but it was short $500 for legal fees for my landlord Apparently while he was living there his landlord had refused to … but the following month a legal fee charge appeared on the rent stub We never paid it he adds but we continued to pay …

By Virginia K. Smith |May 15, 2014 - 12:59PM
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Rent Coach: My landlord is threatening to keep my deposit if I smoke inside. Is that allowed?
By Mike Akerly |February 27, 2014 - 9:59AM