Advice please re student renting

silvercar

Premier is right, the time for the landlord to ask for a guarantor was before contracts were signed.

Surfbabe

Thanks for all the advice given - I didn;t sign the guarantor form (neither did 2 of the other parents). Kids have all moved in but after 1 month have still not received details of Tenancy Deposit scheme etc.(Deposit was paid in March) !!! University Accomadation office and City Council have been really helpful and they are going to Magistartes court tomorrow to start proceedings re the things that should have been done by law and haven;t been.

silvercar

Best of luck, let us know how you get on.

Can't help but comment on the irony of the university accommodation office supporting you, when they will only be offering licences (rather than ASTs) on their own accommodation and not protecting deposits etc.

Premier_2

Good luck...but they should be going to the county court not the magistrates!

However, the first thing that should be done is issue a letter before legal proceedings ... but the information provided by the county court will explain that.

tbs624

Premier wrote: »

Good luck...but they should be going to the county court not the magistrates!

I think you may have read Surfbabe's post hurriedly Premier - my interpretation was that it is the TRO/EHO pursuing this particular court action, presumably for failure to comply with specific obligations such as fire safety/gas safety etc perhaps, and that *would* be the Mags Court.

You are right that the T themselves would need to pursue deposit reg issues via the County Court.

tbs624

silvercar wrote: »

Best of luck, let us know how you get on.

Can't help but comment on the irony of the university accommodation office supporting you, when they will only be offering licences (rather than ASTs) on their own accommodation and not protecting deposits etc.

Yes, but they are acting within their legal obligations under the terms of the law and the licenses, although I get your point. It is interesting how they do things,compared to their expectations of other providers - in some towns LLs will get letters from the Uni suggesting ideal rents for the area, and yet their own HoR rents will be charged at a fair amount above that for less space and sometimes furnished to a lower standard than many private rentals. My other favourite is the Unis requiring students to pay full whack until the end of July in Uni-owned accoms, when they set the Uni terms to end a good 6 weeks prior to that, and they could make good use of the rooms for summer course lettings/visitors to the area, as they tend to do in August.

All that aside, it is important that the Unis support their students when the LL appears to be acting outside the law as appears to be the case here.

Keep us updated Surfbabe.