Landlords have been burned many times before with non-payment, damage to property, rent moratoriums, rising property taxes, noise disturbances, and so on. #11 When Trying To Get Your Deposit Back From Your Landlord Landlord makes living conditions s****y so he offers me an opportunity to move out. I wrote a template letter, with a generic "this is a [number of days till lease end]- day notice .... Cue the final 15 day countdown till my 30 day notice letter. On my 34th day notice letter (now probably the 20th letter I've mailed), I received my cashiers check back.