Multiple Tenants

If tenants are sharing a rental property and each of them has paid part of the security deposit, you are under no obligation to return part of the security deposit if one tenant leaves before the tenancy is over. The only exception would be if both you and the tenants had specifically agreed in the original tenancy agreement to the partial return of the deposit before the tenancy is over. In the absence of such an agreement, the security deposit will only be returned when the tenancy ends. When the security deposit is returned at the end of the tenancy, you must make the cheque out to all original tenants even if some have already left the premises.