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Landlords cannot keep a rent deposit or key deposit because there&#8217;s been damage to a unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-updates"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mira Poliszczuk","author_link":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/author\/mira"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Information for tenants about damage and deposits - CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario \/ \u00c9ducation juridique communautaire Ontario)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/whats-new\/information-for-tenants-about-damage-and-deposits\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Information for tenants about damage and deposits - CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario \/ \u00c9ducation juridique communautaire Ontario)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Steps to Justice has updated information for tenants when their former landlord asks for money because of damage. 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