Carpet replacement, whole unit, six hundred dollars, due to staining and pet damage.
I did not have a pet. I have never had a pet. It was in my lease that I could not have a pet, and I did not have one.
Repainting, entire interior, five hundred dollars, due to wall damage and unapproved marks.
I had filled two nail holes and touched them up with his own paint.
Oven and appliance cleaning, one hundred fifty dollars.
The oven I had scrubbed until it shone.
Cleaning and haul-away of debris left in unit, two hundred dollars.
I had left the unit broom clean and empty. There was no debris. There was nothing.
Miscellaneous and administrative, one hundred fifty dollars.
For a total that conveniently, precisely, to the dollar, ate my entire deposit and left nothing to send back. Not a check for the difference. Not even a few dollars. He had built a list backward from the number sixteen hundred, and the list was fiction.
