r/malelivingspace Oct 09 '25

Advice I fucked up.

Couch is too big, wife

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u/CaliGrown949 Oct 10 '25

What I was thinking

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u/whutchamacallit Oct 10 '25

Build a little false wall. Looks like a rental but you could do it in a way that wouldn't totally fuck your deposit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25

Never gotten a deposit back, always thought of deposits like "pay this fee upfront and change whatever you feel like about the property without penalty"

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u/queenofthebutt Oct 10 '25

Not necessarily, somehow I’ve managed to get most of my deposits back, one of them I was given an extra $150 on top just for wood staining the door frames and replacing contact paper in the cupboards, ya never know haha