Ten minutes on day one.
Or eighteen months arguing.

Most deposit disputes are decided by something nobody thought to record on move-in day. This is the one-page list of what to capture before you unpack — whether you are the tenant, the landlord or the agent.

• Thirteen checks, grouped by when to do them
• The things people reliably forget: meters, keys, alarms, the garden
• One page. Print it, or keep it on your phone