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Tenant loses tenancy deposit and two years later "wages war on Estate Agents"

tbs624
tbs624 Posts: 10,816 Forumite
in House buying, renting & selling
Tenant who lost his tenancy deposit over a damaged carpet back in 2011 has appeared in court after cutting down 140 LA/EA "for let" and "for sale" signs, apparently dumping them at landfill sites.

Reported in Manchester Evening News - link

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  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    No justification of course but it really is time LAs were regulated in some way....

    To protect both tenants AND landlords.
  • tbs624
    tbs624 Posts: 10,816 Forumite
    No suggestion that the T's behaviour was justifiable.

    Regulation of LAs *is* long overdue, but in this case it sounds as though the LA had the LL's interests well and truly covered. Reference is made elsewhere to the whole 1,100 deposit being retained - lot of money to someone who had apparently lost their job.
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    tbs624 wrote: »
    Reference is made elsewhere to the whole 1,100 deposit being retained - lot of money to someone who had apparently lost their job.

    Isn't the deposit a matter for the LL not the agency?
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Isn't the deposit a matter for the LL not the agency?
    Not if the LL has instructed (and paid) the agency to deal with it on his behalf.

    Though of course you are right that the LL remains ultimately responsible.
  • BitterAndTwisted
    BitterAndTwisted Posts: 22,492 Forumite
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    It must have been a pretty damned fancy carpet to have lost over a grand out of the deposit.

    He should have posted on here, not lost his marbles two years later.
  • sandsni
    sandsni Posts: 683 Forumite
    The story is probably more reflective of the symptoms of mental ill-health than the rights and wrongs of deposit deductions.
  • grifferz
    grifferz Posts: 568 Forumite
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    BitterAndTwisted wrote: »
    He should have posted on here, not lost his marbles two years later.
    Maybe he did and one of our more er.. robust responses is what finally tipped him over. ;)
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