[Ghoulish Delight]

It depends on how long you've been there. If you've been there for under something like 3 years, or 5 years (I think it's 3 years for carpet, 5 years for paint), they can charge you. Over those time limits and they are required to replace everything anyway so they can't charge you.

I know for us, even though we weren't going to be charged for paint and carpets, they wanted everything else cleaned. They gave us a checklist of things that needed to be clean (floors, kitchen cabinets, windows sills, outside of windows even though we were on the second floor) and said, "You can either clean it yourself or we'll deduct $95 from your deposit to clean it for you. BUT, if you clean it yourself and it's not 100% clean to our specifications, we'll charge you the full cleaning price to do the rest." Seemed like an easy choice, we just swalled the $95 and let them take care of it. That $95 was well worth not having to spend a full day scrubbing window sills, just to risk having to pay it anyway.