CA Legal advice on Deposit

[Skylar Medeiros]

When it comes down to Landlord-tenants rights, how does the security deposit really work especially when there's a big problem.

The tenant was given a 60 day termination-of-lease, it was a 60-day notice since they have been at the rental property for over a year. 

The landlord was not aware of the fact that he had to send a notice of initial inspection just so the tenant can choose or refuse a pre departure move out inspection before the final move out inspection along with the walk through.

Now the final day is here, the final inspection, the walk through, and the keys be handed back over from tenant to landlord.

The landlord is marking down what's clean and what's not, along with what's damaged and what's missing on his move out inspection check list. Tenant is mad because she never filled out a move in inspection/checklist of what was supposedly dirty, damaged, and missing from when she moved in two years ago. So she doesn't get how the landlord is going to base what the place looks like now compared of how it was when she had first moved in. 

So what are the landlords legal rights compared to the tenants legal rights? What is going to happen when it comes to the deposit?  What should the landlord do and what should the tenant do?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!