My partner and I moved out of a flat on the 1st of February and left it immaculate. It was an absolute shithole when we moved in we literally found shit stains in the loo and we improved the flat greatly.
When it came to getting our deposit back our landlord said that he thinks we caused a hole in the back of one of the doors. We definitely didn't but I said he could take the money if it wasn't going to be a lot so that it would be sorted sooner, I also thought that we couldn't prove we hadn't caused the hole as an inventory wasn't done when we moved in.
I've messaged him a few times since then and his reply is always that I have to wait as he's getting a quote from a carpenter. I honestly think he's hoping a forget and he doesn't have to pay it back. He didn't protect our deposit and I don't know what to do.
He was a dodgy landlord by all accounts and we think he broke the law a lot when we lived there.