Depends on the individual you are renting from. I learned the hard way to never have a lawyer for a landlord. Landlords shouldn’t be allowed to represent themse

Depends on the individual you are renting from. I learned the hard way to never have a lawyer for a landlord. Landlords shouldn’t be allowed to represent themselves (too bad it’s a constitutional right!). Anyway, come to find out the guy set the deposit amount specifically to make it just enough that even if you went to court to get it back, you’d never get it back because that’s how much you’d spend to get it back. After randomly running into his ex-wife at a party and hearing that it was all done on purpose, we started to put together a class action with all of his past tenants. Then we moved to the EU instead.