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Ask any group of Shanghai expats about rental deposits and you'll collect the same stories: the landlord who deducted ¥3,000 for "wall repainting" after a spotless two-year tenancy, the agent who vanished at checkout time, the deposit returned five weeks late with no explanation for the missing ¥1,500. Here's the thing those stories obscure: most deposits in Shanghai come back in full, and the ones...