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Honestly, I think it depends on how awful the landlord wants to be about it and if you manage to get mediation, how willing the mediator is to see your side over the landlord's. I've heard lots of bad things about landlords not giving deposit money back no matter how clean you leave the place, especially in the PA/EPA/MP area. Do you remember me talking about the post-doc I worked with(Louise)? She and her man never got any deposit back when they moved out of their apt in EPA. Granted she isn't a neat-freak, but she didn't get one cent back - and I was under the impression that she had paid a large portion of a month's rent as deposit, so it wasn't like it was only $100.
Try for the mediation process, and maybe get some advice from a lawyer or a law student studying this sort of thing. Maybe LJ could hook you up with someone who might know something about rent laws/contract law?
Hope you get it worked out. You're making me scared about moving now! I had a different manager when I moved in than I do now, and the new one is a b**** and the old one was so disorganized that I don't know if the walk-through (as cursory as it was) was ever filed.
But good luck!
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