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Is it too late to take my landlord to court?
tylerdurden_167
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I moved out of a property in Feb last year and the landlord withheld a sizeable amount of the deposit for various items inc a broken window.
I was quite willing to take him and the letting agents to court as there was no inventory taken before I moved in and they cannot prove I broke the window (I did not break it, I would pay if I had) but due to a number of factors, I kept putting off the court procedure to claim my money back.
In a nutshell, have I missed my opportunity or would it still be feasible to instigate court proceedings and if so, would it harm my case that I have taken so long to get to this stage?
I was quite willing to take him and the letting agents to court as there was no inventory taken before I moved in and they cannot prove I broke the window (I did not break it, I would pay if I had) but due to a number of factors, I kept putting off the court procedure to claim my money back.
In a nutshell, have I missed my opportunity or would it still be feasible to instigate court proceedings and if so, would it harm my case that I have taken so long to get to this stage?
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tylerdurden_167 wrote: »I moved out of a property in Feb last year and the landlord withheld a sizeable amount of the deposit for various items inc a broken window.
I was quite willing to take him and the letting agents to court as there was no inventory taken before I moved in and they cannot prove I broke the window (I did not break it, I would pay if I had) but due to a number of factors, I kept putting off the court procedure to claim my money back.
In a nutshell, have I missed my opportunity or would it still be feasible to instigate court proceedings and if so, would it harm my case that I have taken so long to get to this stage?
Tyler - you posted about this last May http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=10688955#post10688955
Why leave it until now to think about following it up?0 -
you can claim for up to 6 years, but the longer you leave it the more questions the judge may ask/be more dubious about your side of the story.0
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