Dear lawyers,

me and other three girls have rented an apartment in Spain to stay here during our erasmus semester. We signed the first week a contract and paid a guarantee 400euro each, but after 4 months we are staying here, we still don´t have a contract nor any confirmation that we paid the guarantee (because it is stated in that contract).

This month is our last here and because the relationship with our landlord is not very good, we are worried she won´t pay us the guarantee back.

She also asked us to pay 800euros for final cleaning of the apartment (its a flat with 4bedrooms, livingroom, kitchen and 2bathrooms), which seems ridiculously high. Is there some limit? I also offered to clean on my own, but we heard from the previous tenants that she never find it sufficient and anyway rent the cleaning company.

And the last problem is that we destroyed (a bit burned) super old carpet sold by meter, and she wants us to repay it, how is the procedure to state the price for it? Because the carpet doesn´t have a value more than 20 euros.

Thank you very much for your respond, as we are not spanish she thinks she can treat us as a fools.

So my question is how can I protect myself to get the guarantee back, when I´m pretty sure, the landlord will charge us a lot for the final cleaning services and also for the destroyed carpet. Are there any limitations?

Thanks.
Jana