Deposit Heroes

When we moved out of our apartment, we left the place nearly spotless, minus some standard wear and tear, but our landlord still wanted to keep our entire $5,500 security deposit. We discovered that hiring a lawyer to pursue the matter would easily outspend what we could possibly hope to recover, and that the best way to get our money back would be to represent ourselves in small-claims court. We spent hours researching tenant/landlord small claims law and process in California, and set out to get back what was rightfully ours. Thankfully, once we sent a credible threat of pending legal action to our landlord, our deposit was returned in full and we never had to proceed to court, although we were fully prepared to do so. We've heard all too many stories similar to our own, but without the happy ending. Not everyone is so willing to spend the tens of hours learning how to defend their rights. Arguably, as software engineers we spent more than $5,500 in our own time learning how to fight our deceitful landlord. That's why we decided to spend another several hundred hours - so no one ever needs to do what we did again. In the age of AI and fine-tuned models, solving this problem is trivial. With accurate tenant/landlord legal statutes from ~3,000 individual U.S. jurisdictions and a step-by-step strategy thought up by best-in-class legal minds, our AI makes small-claims action against misbehaving landlords fast and easy. Getting your security deposit back is your right, not a question mark. We know security deposits on move-out aren't black and white, and not everyone deserves every dollar back. We also know that wiping down a refrigerator doesn't cost $800, and so does our AI. We took our security deposit recovery tool a step further with common home repair cost benchmarking. When your landlord sends you the bill and lists exactly why they want to keep your deposit, you'll know if you're being ripped off or treated fairly and have all the data you need to negotiate a fair outcome.