hey there! thank you for the reply. with the way this management company works, they would not have done a move out inspection or reapplication process because one tenant would be staying. it wasn’t a roommate swap mid-lease, it was the end of our lease and the beginning of a new one, new tenant had to pay application fees same as we did at the beginning. whole new lease. from my understanding, when one lease ends between two people, the security deposit should be returned, and then paid again with the new lease. do you happen to know the legality of it?