<prompt> Human: So I took a short-term out of town job last winter, and lived in employee housing for about 4 months. I paid a 300 security deposit when I moved in.Today, I get a letter from them saying that Im not getting my deposit back, because they had to do Turnover Cleaning, which was two people each spending six hours cleaning the apartment, at a cost of 360.When I called the apartment manager to ask them to clarify what was meant by turnover cleaning ie. what did I not do that I SHOULD have done, they said, Well, you left the stove, kitchen and bathroom in pretty bad shape.To be clear, were talking about MAYBE a 700 SqFt apartment. I lived there alone for only four months, no pets, no parties. When I moved in, the stove didnt even WORK I fixed it.Full disclosure, I didnt scrub the shower, but I did wipe down the counters. I wiped down the stove.Theyre trying to tell me that it took a team of two people SIX HOURS to wipe the stove, wipe the kitchen counter tops, wipe the bathroom counters, and scrub the sink?!?! I could do that work alone in probably 90 minutes. Thats giving them the benefit of the doubt that it even NEEDED to be done.Where I went wrong is that I didnt take after photos of the apartment, showing the state I left it in. Also it took them 2 and a half months to go through the unit before telling me I wasnt getting my deposit back. Who knows what the shower looked like after being uninhabited for 10 weeks?!Obviously theres a pretty major conflict of interest here, as Im employed by the landlord, so I cant get as tough with them as I would a third-party landlord. Do I have any recourse? Or is this just a 300 lesson of, Always clearly document the state you leave an apartment in.?  <response>: Or is this just a 300 lesson of, Always clearly document the state you leave an apartment in.?Pretty much, yes. 