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Has anyone experienced having their final walk thru before moving from a leased residence and signed off that all was ok, minus the $131 for carpet cleaning, then never recipe a refund cheque? Does one just go thru the tenancy office? The business we leased from won't respond to my texts. Thanks.

Best to call the Manitoba Residential Tenancies Branch for advice. Their number in Brandon is 1-800-656-8481.

Don't text. Pick up the phone. It's likely a business line, not a cell.  
Landlines don't receive texts.

An FYI for you and other renters as well. They cannot make you pay for carpet cleaning unless they can prove that you made stains on the carpet.  
 
Also something to talk to the tenancy branch about.

I rented, landlord wrote me a cheque for my returned deposit and it bounced.  
 
I took him to small claims court and won. They awarded costs as well. He still didn’t pay so I filed to have his pay garnished and served the paperwork to his workplace myself. A couple pay periods and I got all my money  
 
As for carpet cleaning- if it’s in your tenants agreement that you signed then yes you are obligated to pay for it