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Renters - do you get your full deposit back?
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ilovecheese wrote: »mutant grass - that made me laugh!!!
Seriously - it took 5 hours to mow! :eek:You were only killing time and it'll kill you right back0 -
I have got mine back on the last six houses (!) i've rented bar the last one. It's ongoing but the letting agent has 'only' taken £80. Half of this is for mould that we told the letting agent about more than once, but (through our own stupidity) don't have evidence of the communication. One of the letting agent's 'handymen' came and painted over magnolia with yellow paint which cost us to the tune of £80. We argued and they made it £40 for a 'nice gesture' (as we overdue an apology for another problem).
The other £40 was for the garden which we tidied (and made better over the course of the year) and for an oven that was clean, but they claim it wasn't because the cleaner had left streaks. They said they had agreed with the new tenants not to get it professionally done and the tenants had dealt with both 'problems'. So I'm not entirely sure what the £40 is for...
The problem is £80 is not too much in the grander scheme of things - is it worth disputing?
I write this because ironically the only time i've had problems with deposit repayment is when it's 'protected' by the DPS. They've not really been of any use so far. I think it's a good thing still but I think more support is needed for the increase in people renting.0 -
I'm in dispute at the moment. I've just threated them with the DPS and we'll see what happens. In the meantime I've requested the balance. But I'm having to fight all the way and it really isn't fun - I was a good tenant and they are now just messing me about, taking ages to get back to me and continuing the general incompetence that I've put up with for the last 18 months.0
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Only rented once, 4 years, recently left and got full deposit back.0
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All but one. It was through uni and the LL wanted to keep the full deposit and take more (if you don't pay you get thrown off your degree) for damage caused by them not fixing leaks fast enough. In the end they kept £100 off each of us.Living cheap in central London :rotfl:0
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