Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

Landlord, unless they can show the tenant did it. I had a tenant try to get out of paying for a broken window once. Claimed it was broken from outside. I found all the shards in the bushes outside the window, however, meaning it had been broken from the inside. Needless to say that tenant got a 30-day notice terminating her month-to-month lease, and her deposit was used to pay for the window.

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