Deposit Protection Scheme

jaffy1229

I rented a property in June 2008. I had just been looking through paperwork and found a letter from the DPS dated June 2010 stating my landlord has just submitted my deposit into the scheme

My question is, should the landlord have submitted my deposit into the scheme within a set time limit when I paid it to him? It seems he held on to the deposit for 2 years before submitting it to the DPS

I am currently in a dispute about the deposit and wondering if this would make his claim void as he may have not followed the rules about protecting my deposit when I moved in.

Thanks for any advice.

jaffy1229

Guest101 wrote: »

No, a claim can be valid regardless of deposit protection.

However you can sue him for 1-3x the value as a penalty

Thanks for that, I am just reading through the letter and it says the start of the tenancy was 10 June 2010. But it wa'nt, it was 17 June 2008.

Why would the landlord give the incorrect tenancy start date to the DPS? Is it to cover himself? Why not tell them it was June 2008?

jjlandlord

It does not matter as, if your deposit has been protected since 2010, you cannot claim for the penalty.

Guest101

jjlandlord wrote: »

It does not matter as, if your deposit has been protected since 2010, you cannot claim for the penalty.

Sorry yes, grace period. Forgot.

jaffy1229

Guest101 wrote: »

Sorry yes, grace period. Forgot.

2 years grace? I thought the landlords had to register it within 30 days of the tenancy?

What is the grace period?

Pixie5740

Was this tenancy for a property that was in England or Wales?

jaffy1229

Pixie5740 wrote: »

Was this tenancy for a property that was in England or Wales?

Yes it was in England

Pixie5740

You rented the property from 2008 to 2015? That's a lot of wear and tear to take into consideration. Did your landlord take an inventory at the start of your tenancy? Was it accurate? In other words, what evidence does your LL have for retaining any of your deposit?

tands

Hi all, a new but related question here.


We've recently moved out of a rental property, and the agents would like to make some deductions from the deposit.


Some of the money is for cleaning, which is annoying but fine. £48 is to have a BT phone/internet point and cable which we had installed removed. BT have said that an engineer can attend and do this for free - so I asked the agents to check whether the new tenant is using it before we organised this. The agent has said "the landlord has asked for this to be removed from the property, as you have vacated the property, you are not allowed back into the property" and is refusing to waive the charge.


My question is, do we have a leg to stand on here? It was written in to our tenancy agreement that we shouldn't change the provider, so they are right that we shouldn't have had it installed - but we are now offering to have it removed and they just want the money - they haven't even checked if the new tenant is using it. Is it worth going through the dispute service, or will we lose anyway?


Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Pixie5740

It's probably best to start your own thread tands.

Guest101

jaffy1229 wrote: »

2 years grace? I thought the landlords had to register it within 30 days of the tenancy?

What is the grace period?

There was a grace period put into place to allow all deposit to be protected. - it was stupid, the law was the law. But i guess bit like gun amnesty.

However Pixie is right, after 7 years, the LL has had his use of the property. I doubt you'd owe very much at all (if anything)

Google 'Betterment'. But basically a LL isnt allowed to replace old for new.