Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Missouri

My husband and I put an $800 security deposit down at the beginning of our lease with this particular landlord company. We kept good care of the duplex, and when we moved out, cleaned it immaculately. We were given the time and date of our walk-thru from the landlord company, and when we showed up at that time, we waited 10 minutes, of which they never showed up. We called them, only to find out that the lady claimed she'd gone by earlier that morning to pick up keys, and that we can drop the rest of them up at the office and she was going to go through it on her own time. We did not have any damages done at all to the place. We have no pictures of when we moved out unfortunately, but we do of while we lived there, proving that we did not have things like 4 towel racks that they charged us for under damages. We only ever had two which were not damaged. They charged us for $720 worth of mostly damages claimed, and a little bit of cleaning, as well as an "administrative fee" which is not even in the contract. We received a refund check of $80. We have written a demand letter requesting we send back the $80 check and they give us a check for $700, so that they have carpet cleaning cost which was the only thing stated in the contract. They have declined, to which we said we would file suit. We do have all of the documents they have ever given us, as well as the checklist of what was wrong with the place when we moved in. Do we have a strong case against them to be able to win even more than the $700, because of hassle and I will have to take a day off of work to do this?

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