Many thanks for your professional suggestions. More information

1)    For those items you requested to repair, but not done in your leasing term. It is called deferred maintenance and is a kind of damage to your lease interests, so you could ask for the compensation or partial refund for your rent;

      窗户的问题我只是填在了move-in inventory sheet上面，没有另外单独的maintenance request. 但是按照问题的性质，因为影响日常生活，他们知道之后就应该修，所以也应该算deferred maintenance 吧？

      这个公寓是所谓的Luxury apartment，月租$996,  住了大约2年又一个半月，交了大约$26,000的房租。8个窗户有4个一直有问题，还有一个时好时坏。要$1300的compensation或5%的refund应该可以吧？

2)    For the repaired Cabinet, your share should be prorated, the normal residence’s depreciation period is 27 ½ year, at least you could prorate your share according to this period;

     这个公寓是2002年建成的，所以到现在用了差不多9年，所以我们应当付的是余下的18½年的，也就是大约2./3的refinishing charges，是这样算吗？

3)    Let them show you the receipt for that cabinet repair; and get price quote from other contracts

     好

4)    Write a letter to the leasing office to address your argument and propose a solution

    是

5)    If they sent your debt to collect agency  before they answered your letter, that is kind harassment, and you could use it as one argument in the court

       知道这点我就放心了，非常感谢。

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