Landlord need not refund deposit if lease requires tenant to give written notice of tenant's intention to surrender the premises.Learn more about tenants' rights and landlords' obligations when it comes to the return of the security deposit in Nolo's chart Cleaning and Repairs a Landlord Can Deduct from a Security Deposit and Nolo's article Get Your Security Deposit Back.Is there additional information that Texas landlords must provide to tenants when it comes to security deposits in Texas?

Life Settlement companies will pay cash in excess of the surrender values for policies that are no longer needed. 2.

Your get your EM back per the contract.And even if you were in breach of contract, they need you to sign the CAMR, so worst case you surrender the EM (or try half of it) and then sign off on it.

It now has a Cash Surrender value of $36k, which is basically worse than if I had kept this money in a high yield savings account. 

If you are going to give up on this, then every first obstacle in your life you are going to surrender.

Hopefully they will willingly surrender the property so you don't have to go through the eviction process.

But he's in California,, where they long since surrendered their freedom to their government.

That was a negotiated surrender, and I was nice, heck I was down-right friendly as i laid out the options of work together or, don't, in which case they can expect eviction in conjunction with suite for judgement, possibly garnishments, possibly even seizing of assets, all kinds of ugly, but hey, it's their choice as they are steering the car, their choice if down the road or off a cliff. 

As the FED lowers rates, the dollar will continue to weaken, which could accelerate inflation (assuming energy and oil prices remain stable.)What we observed this past week was the FED's surrender.

Our response to that is, Ok, but that means the security deposit has to be surrendered b/c there's no way for us to do an inspection while their belongings are still there.