Tenants leaving soon

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david29dpo wrote: »

Gives them plenty of time to trash the place then!

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Looking back I can see that part of my post was open to misinterpretation (thanks to anotherpaul for clarifying) :

Within 10 days of the end of the tenancy you have to have notified the tenant (in writing) of any deductions that you want to make and be able to fully justify them. You do have to allow for FW&T but this does not include dirt or damage. If the T deos not agree then you proceed down the dispute route. It's always more difficult if somewhere has been your home, dressed ready for sale and then you end up having to let it but you can't just make a decision to say "no chance" on the issue of any return of the deposit.

So, that is, ten days *before* they move out you give them the opportunity to deal with some of this issues, and 10 days after the end of the tenancy, under the deposit scheme's rules, you have to do as described.

If you were going into dispute, your Ts would in all probability bring up the fact that when you inspected or called to change their light bulbs you made no issue about the state of the property.