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Security Deposit Recovery
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-18
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-renters
Get your security deposit back — the move-out documentation that wins disputes before they start, the itemized-deduction challenge, the demand-letter ladder, and the small-claims decision point. Use when asked how do I get my deposit back, my landlord is keeping my deposit, dispute these deposit deductions, or write a deposit demand letter. Produces the move-out evidence protocol, the deduction-by-deduction challenge with the wear-and-tear line drawn, the escalation ladder with letters, and the small-claims prep sheet.
What to give it
▸The phase — still in the unit (run the protocol — the highest-value case), moved out awaiting the deposit, or holding an itemized deduction list (the challenge case)
▸The paper so far — lease clauses on the deposit, move-in inspection report if one exists (its absence is itself useful), photos from move-in and move-out, any communication
▸The numbers — deposit amount, deductions claimed, time elapsed since move-out (return deadlines are jurisdiction-specific and often short — the clock may already be the tenant's best argument)
▸The landlord shape — individual owner vs. property management company; the ladder's tone is identical, but companies respond to process and owners to specifics
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Every deduction is sorted wear/damage/unsubstantiated with reasoning, not lumped
✓Depreciation math appears wherever full-replacement is charged on aged items
✓Letters escalate in firmness while staying courtroom-readable throughout
✓Jurisdiction-specific rules appear as flagged categories, never asserted numbers
✓The small-claims section includes the honest economics, not just the how-to
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not concede wear-and-tear items to seem reasonable — that line is the whole dispute
Do not write angry — every letter is Exhibit A; the facts carry the heat
Do not cite specific statutes or day-counts as fact — categories with verify-locally flags
Do not skip the itemization request rung — many withholdings collapse at the first ask for receipts
Do not let sunk anger drive the small-claims call — the prep sheet's first line is the arithmetic
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
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Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
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