I am currently in the USAF stationed in Massachussets. For a while I was stationed in Maine, where I was renting a property. Because of the Military Clause in my lease, I was released from my lease early September due to my re-assignment orders. At first, I had only given the landlord one week notice that I was vacating the unit, forfeiting my security deposit because I had not given 30 days. I completely understood that I had no right to argue that fact, and graciously walked away from my security deposit. However, my orders once again changed, leaving me where I was for an additional 30 days. I let my landlord know ASAP, planning on getting my security deposit back at this point. At the end of my 30 days, the landlord came to me saying she was STILL NOT going to return the security deposit to me because she did not accept the written orders I gave to her, and that she ALREADY accepted. Long story short, she kept my security deposit, I transferred to Mass, and now she is saying that I am still in my lease until it would originally terminate. The part that gets me is she ALREADY, IN WRITTING, released me from my lease, and kept my security deposit. She has been contacting my Command and slandering my name to my supperiors in hopes to collect a false debt. I have been formaly reprimanded by my command for this matter. My question is then this, Does my ex-landlord have the right to contact my employer, the USAF, to collect a debt that I do not owe???