correct wording for mcol to claim rent and damages?

clutton_2

""because they deliberately avoided their responsibilities whereas I did not.""

which side of cloud cuckoo land do you live in ?


yes you did DELIberately avoid your responsibilities - by being ignorant of them....

if this is your first experience of poor tenants - with your attitude - it will not be your last..

As a LL you will always lose money at some point .. its a business... its a bad debt ... write it off against your tax bill (if you declare it of course)

Do you seriously think that tenants who have been illegally treated by you with regards to the deposit are going to go to court and tell the judge the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth ?

maybe before you go launching off on your crusade against tenants you might wish to read Eagerlearners thread on here (set aside 3 hours) to learn how astonishingly difficult it is to get money out of someone who is determined to not pay you......



did you do an inventory when they moved in and out ?

you have had several of us here say "put this down to experience - get new tenants and move on"

its good advice

the next bit of advice is buy Tessa Shepperson's book Rentin - the essential guide to tenants rights and read it...

then join national landlords association (joining fee tax deductible and you get cheaper house insurance as a member) and read their website

then read www.landlordzone.co.uk to learn how clever tenants can really shaft landlords and what a foolish idea of yours this is.....

ever since you started posting on here last autumn about this tenancy, folks have been advising you to join a professional body.. i can only assume that you have not done so since you are still asking basic questions here..

in all seriousness, if your pregnancy is going well, then i seriously advise you to drop this case, i know you have lost money - thats life... that is all part of being a LL -

Surely you must know that you need all your energy for your new child..... thats your prioritiy - not chasing some scroat who will avoid paying up for years or even plead poverty and you will be awarded £5 a week for 10 years..... that happens.....

its not worth the hassle ... let it go

tbs624

Totally agree with Clutton.

moneyangel22 wrote: »

I am putting my ex-tenants through a court case because they owe me more than their security deposit...maybe you have money to burn but I do not. I will reclaim this money through the court and judgment will be awarded against the tenants because they deliberately avoided their responsibilities whereas I did not. Now that I know the rules the deposit has been placed in security. It just happens that I did not find out about this until the same time that I kicked the tenants out.

If you "don't have money to burn" then you should have full acquainted yourself with all of your own legal obligations before letting out a property ( & that's whether or not you use an LA becuase the buck stops with you as a LL) .Running the risk of a 3x deposit amount payout to the T, plus the deposit return plus costs and interest looks awfully like someone who *has* got money to burn.

If , as a bare minimum, you google" landlord" and "legal obligations" there's a huge number of reliable sites that come up, all of which mention Tenancy Deposit Schemes. The law came in three years ago.

The fact that youposted this

moneyangel22 wrote: »

I have a rental property which is coming to the end of the 6 month assured tenancy agreement (which the estate agents provided), as I am managing the tenancy myself I need to provide the tenants with a rolling 12-month contract. I have heard you can download templates from somewhere but cannot remember where? Can anyone advise please?

( my highlighting) clearly shows that you hadn't done enough research to be a "good LL". Good LLs gen up on both their own and their T's rights and obligations rather than just blustering through.

You also say in a previous post that you served a s21 Notice on these Ts - further evidence of your lack of appropriate knowledge of LL & T law and procedure. A s21 Notice of intent to repossess is not valid if served before a T's deposit has been scheme registered. so you should count yourself lucky that they went when they did..

Your best bet is to listen to what other posters are telling you about your intentions and just move forward. Just make sure that you join up to the NLA, RLA, or LLLaw and get yourself some LL&T training/accreditation via the local Council. If you can't do that then sell up.