Can I demand my landlord to return two separate checks for the security deposit one to each tenant on the lease?
I signed a lease for an apartment with another individual. We were both tenants on the lease, shared equal responsibility etc. At lease signing when we pad the security deposit we each gave our own personal checks to the landlord. I demanded the landlord give me my amount back instead of returning it all together to my co signer. Can she refuse this? She says she will give it to my cosigner since she singed the W-9 form. I was, however, never informed of this form and it was filled out much later than our lease was and took no part in our agreements within the lease.