Article 22 of Law No. 89-462 of July 6, 1989 provides that the landlord is obliged to justify the money it holds on deposit, but did not specify the nature of the evidence admitted.
With regard to rehabilitation work, the quote is, in practice, the most widely used by real estate professionals.This practice was sanctioned by the Court of Cassation, which considers that the only production of a quote is sufficient to justify the rehabilitation of housing (Cass. 3rd Civ. April 3, 2001).
The systematic use the bill could prove problematic as difficult to reconcile with the deadlines by which the landlord is obliged to return the deposit, currently two months.

The tenant may anyway dispute the amount withheld under litigation, facilitated by the competence of local judges in disputes of this nature involving amounts less than 4 000 euros, in accordance with Article L. 331-2-1 of the code of judicial organization.

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