Colorado Security Deposit Evidence Checklist

Evidence Colorado renters should keep for security deposit disputes, including deadline, surrender, address, written statement, deductions, and seven-day demand proof.

Colorado deposit disputes are easier to handle when your evidence is organized before the conversation turns serious.

Core documents

Keep:

the lease and any renewal
the deposit amount and payment proof
move-in photos, move-in checklist, and repair requests
termination or lease-end records
key-return, access-device, or surrender proof
your current mailing or forwarding address notice
move-out photos and videos
rent, utility, cleaning, and repair records

Landlord records

Save:

the deposit refund, if any
the written statement listing deductions
photos, invoices, receipts, estimates, or other documentation sent by the landlord
envelopes, postmarks, email headers, portal messages, and text screenshots
any walk-through request, response, notes, or photos

Watch this step

If you send the Colorado seven-day demand, save the exact letter and delivery proof. That proof matters if the landlord still refuses to return money and you later decide to file.

Why this matters

Colorado can make the landlord prove that the deposit was not wrongfully withheld. Your record should make the basic story easy to follow: what you paid, when you left, what you returned, what the landlord kept, what the landlord wrote down, and why the deduction was unsupported.

DepositBackUSA - Colorado Recovery System

The Colorado Recovery System pairs the letter sequence with the proof renters usually need before escalation.

Get the Colorado Recovery System

Important