Might need a lawyer
 

moved out of a place 30 days ago...landlord has my forwarding address...have e-mail proof that they received keys, etc

e-mailed them yesterday checking on status of my deposit return...no reply in 24 hours

what's next?

just go get a lawyer or politely inform them i am talking to one? ROFL

24hrs?

That's it?

Jesus dude....not everyone and everything works around your time frame.

Legal counsel from Chiefsplanet. This always goes well.

Shit, you just threw up the googler barrett bat signal. Best of luck in this thread.

landlords have 30 days to return a deposit and/or itemized list of damages

i have received neither

they should have fired off an e-mail in 24 seconds if they wanted to avoid a potentially legally damaging situation

Read your rent/ lease agreement regarding your deposit return.

What Detoxing said.

You aren't suing over a deposit. Bad math (depending on deposit).

Is this guy the landlord?

I did.

Are you dealing with a management company or an individual?

Have you called them? Harassed them? Spoken with anyone?

A lack of Email response in a matter of 24hrs hardly seems alarming at all. Some companies/people will only check their email in the morning. Sometimes not at all that day. Email is kind of archaic in 2019.

Or they may be looking into your issue and do not have a proper response yet. In which case a phone call in to them would be nice.

Trying to escalate this into a lawsuit because you haven't seen a response in 24hrs seems like quite the spoiled millennial thing to do.

From what you've told us so far:

You moved out, left your forwarding address and received email confirmation that your keys had been received.

Then you did nothing for 30 days until you finally wrote an email (of all things) and since you didn't get an immediate response (****ing millennials) you're panicking.

Dude....

I waited 30 days.

It's their job to return the security deposit, not mine to enforce the return of it.

They are a shitty ****ing management company, **** them.