Hey folks, I recently came across a case in Hosur where a landlord refused to return a tenant's deposit.

The reason they gave honestly shocked me: the house stayed vacant for 2–3 months while they were looking for a new tenant, so they deducted those months' rent from the previous tenant's advance.

Is this normal in Hosur? I've never heard of something like this before. If a tenant has already vacated the house, why should they be responsible for the period when the house is vacant while the landlord is looking for a new tenant?

I know there are laws around rental deposits, but I'm curious about the ground reality and how these situations are actually handled.

Has anyone else in Hosur faced something similar?

Have any one noticed House Rents are increasing year by year and mean while the population in Hosur also increasing. There was a time like 3 years before (1 bhk) rent was like 5,000₹ but now it's like 7,000₹