Florida rental Laws ?

You have 20 days to provide a written itemization of why you are keeping security deposits. You are legally required to return the security deposit even if it is in the form of a credit towards the balance due on the lease. Example, owes 3 months left at $1000 per month. Security deposit of $1000. They leave, you go in and clean carpet, repair a door and repair a window costing $500. Send a certified letter to the last known address (when it comes back, keep it just in case they sue you, it happens) itemizing $3000 due lease terms, $500 repairs totaling $3500 less $1000 security deposit=$2500 due. Then you can file a judgement against them. Hope this helps

Most likely, unless you need it for damages to the property, but you'd keep it in the form of owed rent.

In most states a renter can't be punished beyond their original financial obligation. Now, if they've damaged the place, you keep the deposit as that's what it's really for. The only money you're entitled to is what your actual damages are.

For example a couple puts down a 500 dollar deposit and pays 1000 a month in rent on a 12 month lease. If they break the lease at 6 months, you're still owed 6000. Now, if you keep the deposit and recover the future rent you'd get 6500, getting 500 more than what your damages were.

Say the place was damage to the amount of the deposit. You'd keep the deposit, and deduct nothing from the rent, leaving you with your 6k for rent and 500 for damages.

Now you'd keep the deposit of course, but deduct from the rent owed, meaning you're owed 5500. That is of course the place hasn't been damaged, then you'd keep the deposit with expection of all the rent due.

You have to remember though, you can't double dip on tenants, so if you get that place rented before the original (broken) lease would have been up you have to refund what rent the former tenants paid from the point the new tenants moved in to the end date of the the original lease.

It depends on your lease.. read it.. Oh forgot you may have written your own..

I too am a landlord, and I do not give out deposits to people who don't fulfill the lease, except in extrema type cases.. Like sickness or death in the family.

Only sort of.

You deduct the rent for the 30 days of the notice, it does not matter that they left. You also deduct cleaning and any damages.

Make sure you check to make sure they are up to date on the power and garbage service. Your new tenants will have trouble if that was not paid.

If there is excess after that you have to return it.

There should be something in the lease agreement that protects you. That's one of the reason's you have a security deposit. Go onto http://www.800helpfla.com/landlord_text.html

this should answer most of your questions.

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