Can the Letting Agent Keep the Deposit?

dibdabable

dimbo61 wrote: »

With a Joint and several AST all the tenants are liable for the rent and you NEED a Lead Tenant.
The deposit may have come from all the tenants but many landlords pay the full deposit back to the lead tenant who then pay all the other tenants.
One person the " Lead Tenant" talks to "one person" the Letting Agents or the Landlord about any problems or deductions for damage or rent arrears etc
If your daughter checks the 3/4 deposit schemes for the address she lived at on the dates she stayed there and finds the deposit was not protected then SUE the Landlord via the Small Claims Court.
http://www.tenantstips.com/Home/Students#.VJWxZsBZsGD

Thanks, we're actually already in the process of the small claims court. It has been established that the neither the lead or any other tenant was contacted about any problems or deductions made using the deposit.

They had no contact as is usual when the tenants come to the end of a tenancy, they didn't really respond until they were sent the Letter before Action letter.

dimbo61

I hope they get 3 X the deposit from the Small Claims Court.

dibdabable

booksurr wrote: »

could you re-write this using English language so we can understand what you are trying to say

As it all makes perfect sense I can't help sorry. Who's "we" I don't see anyone else asking anything. What a waste of time, could you really find nothing better to do.
To understand the post you'd need to read the rest and my post is a direct response to dimbo's suggestions. I was simply attempting to summarise a long standing thread to bring dimbo up to date given that they were suggesting things we were already in the process of.

Perhaps it would have been better if you'd said what you don't understand?

topdaddy_2

booksurr wrote: »

could you re-write this using English language so we can understand what you are trying to say

I wish there was a no thanks button for this post.

Blackpool_Saver

Why don't you contact the lead tenant?

dibdabable

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

Why don't you contact the lead tenant?

We have contacted them they haven't received their deposit either and have had as much of the "run around" as we have, we just happen to be going after them, because my daughter really needs her money back.

anselld

dibdabable wrote: »

We have contacted them they haven't received their deposit either and have had as much of the "run around" as we have, we just happen to be going after them, because my daughter really needs her money back.

So are you saying NOBODY has received the deposit and the Agent are just lying about giving it back? In which case sue the Landlord with the agent also named in the action.

Or have the agents given the deposit to one of the other tenants? In which case sue that tenant for the share.

Blackpool_Saver

Something doesn't add up here...... if this was me I wouldn't have mucked about for this long, I would have visited each tenant and been at the landlords door seeing him in person

maninthestreet

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

Something doesn't add up here...... if this was me I wouldn't have mucked about for this long, I would have visited each tenant and been at the landlords door seeing him in person

Agreed - five months have gone by since the tenancy ended, and the
OP (or is their daughter?) is still 'negotiating' with the LA / LL over the return of the deposit (which seems never to have been registered
with any of the deposit protection schemes).

theEnd

It is a little odd.