Landlord Demanding All Our Deposit Money.. Help!!!

silvercar

Use the arbitration service. The whole point of protecting tenant's deposit was to ensure that landlord's didn't overcharge or disappear with the deposit. Your landlord correctly protected the deposit, so use the arbitration scheme for a judgement on how much it is appropriate to retain.

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MissMoneypenny wrote: »

I agree. I hope the tenants' do challange this payment in court. All the more reason why a tenant should make sure they take out the optional extra of Legal Liability (sometimes called Family Cover) with their house contents insurance: making sure that the exclusions do not state legal action defending or taking a landlord to court. My Legal Liability additional extra, costs me just under £20 a year.

My neighbour runs a cleaning business in the London/ SE area and they do a 'deep clean' service too. I recall last year that he told me they were deep cleaning 2 bed flats on the south coast, for £100 each. If his firm is charging that in this area, then your £350 for a 3 bed house in whatever are you are in, is very steep. Are you giving the landlord or EA a backhander from your £350 charge?

No not at all all prices are clearly explained prior to a deep clean taking place £95 of the fee is for an oven clean. our prices are very good a £100 for a proper deep clean sounds very cheap however the floor space is small , BUT how many staff , materials etc etc to me that would be for a very light lick around and are they insured ? and I do not meen public L for 1k some cleaning companies carry low insurance because they knock your expensive ornaments over, knock your telly off the wall spill bleach on an expensive carpet will say to the owner this is what you are getting no more (you invited them in to your home they do not need to give you a penny)and to be honest in those areas there is a large economic migrant immigration issue where they are happy to work for £8 ph and please no bigot comments because it was not ment to be that type of comment, in our Book it would just cover the oven clean and vacuum of the ground floor.You basically get what you pay for and we do not compete with people we consider to be charging to little it is a case of take it or leave it no hidden extras .

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tbs624 wrote: »

Appalling - this is otherwise known as "betterment", and is not on.

To other Ts reading the thread - you only have to return the property in the same condition as when let, save for fair wear and tear. LLs cannot "use it as a chance for a deep clean at a cost to the T"

WRONG he is saying the tenant has or is not going to hand back the property as clean as when he got it ir it was deep cleaned when they moved in .

tbs624

Sorry OP this is taking things slightly OT

FOURCANDLES wrote: »

WRONG he is saying the tenant has or is not going to hand back the property as clean as when he got it ir it was deep cleaned when they moved in .

I stand by what I said, because my comment was addressing that part of your previous post which read

The owner uses it as a chance for a deep clean at a cost to the tenant.

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tbs624 wrote: »

Sorry OP this is taking things slightly OT I stand by what I said, because my comment was addressing that part of your previous post which read

Yes but if it was handed back with just a light clean carried out it would NOT be handed back as it was given to the tenant.

westv

FOURCANDLES wrote: »

Yes but if it was handed back with just a light clean carried out it would NOT be handed back as it was given to the tenant.

Would anybody realistically be able to tell the difference between the "deep" clean and a normal thorough clean?

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westv wrote: »

Would anybody realistically be able to tell the difference between the "deep" clean and a normal thorough clean?

Between a light clean and a deep clean yes , I had a call yesterday from a lady who asked us to do her oven as she said the EA and Owner was not happy with her effort, gave her a price of £90 she said she had argued with the owner when he said it was not clean enough he said he would show her how to do it properly and would charge her £200 . We refused to go to this tenant as what we would have done would not have been good enough either as it is clear the landlord wants a wad of her deposit .

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Saying all this if I as the tenant was asked for a wad of my deposit and I was confident I had handed it back as given to me I would argue the case that is what I would do . But lets be honest on this one most people hand over on the grounds they need to rent again possibly from the same EA so will lose money instead of rocking the boat and risking have a problem renting in the same area.

Leory

FOURCANDLES -

You say you do work for letting agents/landlords. Not IRD Homes by any chance is it!?!?

westv

westv wrote: »

Would anybody realistically be able to tell the difference between the "deep" clean and a normal thorough clean?

FOURCANDLES wrote: »

Between a light clean and a deep clean yes.

So the answer to my question is "No" then.