Does a landlord have a legal obligation to return a security deposit?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from Camacho v. Paduch, 78 N.Y.S.3d 905 (N.Y. City Ct. 2018):
6 But see Kamara v. Pavia , 11 Misc. 3d 1051(A), 2006 WL 304894 *4 ("The fact that a [tenant-]depositor may not ask for the return of a security deposit does not obviate [the landlord's] legal obligation to return it to the depositor when required to do so, or to provide an accounting of his expenditures to the depositor when he does not return the deposit."). This point is discussed below in more detail.
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