Rayne Properties

I paid deposit to Rayne Properties LLC for friend using PayPal. No contract, no lease. Unit not rented. Business Owner, [redacted], will not refund deposit. [redacted] sent PayPal request for $375.00 to my friend 1/8/16. I paid the $375 deposit on 1/28/15, for a trailer rented by Rayne Properties. No statement in the PayPal request about deposit/payment being nonrefundable. If property was no longer available, [redacted] should have returned the money. His manager said the money would be returned in 21 days; then said money would not be returned. [redacted] states he held the trailer for weeks with no lease or payment. He did not hold a rental property for weeks without any deposit or signed lease agreement. He rented the original unit of interest and then offered a second unit. [redacted] decided to keep my money and call it a nonrefundable deposit and payment for "holding" the other unit. We have gone back and forth through the PayPal dispute and claim system, but PayPal has stated they do not handle rental deposit disputes. [redacted] has no reason to keep my money. No lease or agreement was signed. He and his manager stated that he had not heard from the potential tenants and did not expect to. He simply stole my money because he thinks he can. If he cared to behave ethically, he would have contacted me to inquire about my payment and to inform me that no property was currently under consideration from the potential tenant. He did not. Instead, he says I should have "educated" myself before paying the money. [redacted] continues to respond with aspersions on my intelligence and information about family drama, much of it invented. He has not responded with ANY legal authority by which he may keep a security deposit paid on rental property in the state of NC. Please refer to NC law regulating security deposits for rental properties: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/statutes/StatutesTOC.pl?Chapter=0042. [redacted] should explain which NC law allows him to keep a deposit when there is no rental.Desired SettlementFor [redacted] to refund my $375 in accordance with NC law. Section § 42-51. ?Permitted Uses of the Deposit:? (a)Security deposits for residential dwelling units shall be permitted only for the following: (1)The tenant's possible nonpayment of rent and costs for water or sewer services provided pursuant to G.S. 62-110(g) and electric service pursuant to G.S. 62-110(h). (2)Damage to the premises, including damage to or destruction of smoke alarms or carbon monoxide alarms.(3)Damages as the result of the nonfulfillment of the rental period, except where the tenant terminated the rental agreement under G.S. 42-45, G.S. 42-45.1, or because the tenant was forced to leave the property because of the landlord's violation of Article 2A of Chapter 42 of the General Statutes or was constructively evicted by the landlord's violation of G.S. 42-42(a).(4)Any unpaid bills that become a lien against the demised property due to the tenant's occupancy.(5)The costs of re-re