Deposits: Prescribed Information

SquirtleSquad

Hi all,

I wasn't provided with the prescribed information when I received my deposit certificate. As evidence I have the covering letter that came with my deposit certificate. The landlord has returned my deposit.

I have the Part 8 form, but I could use some guidance!

Thanks!

Nearlyold

Sorry not clear what you want guidance on - you seem to be saying you paid a deposit to your landlord, the landlord protected your deposit but failed to give you the prescribed information, you have now vacated the property and the landlord has returned your deposit in full.

What action are you wanting to take?

Or is this just a hypothetical question like your "I want to purchase a Buy to Let although I have no proof of income and don't know how tax works" questions

SquirtleSquad

I want to sue my landlord for not providing the prescribed information.

HappyMJ

SquirtleSquad wrote: »

I want to sue my landlord for not providing the prescribed information.

What for? The deposit was protected. The LL can't issue a S21 without having first given you the prescribed information but that's about it.

Are you sure it's not on your tenancy agreement. Just looking at my TA it's on the back of the first page.

SquirtleSquad

It's quite a common piece of legislation.

I'm surprised you don't know about it, perhaps you missed it while you were plodding along on your high horse...

"...the tenant can apply to the court for the deposit to be protected and/or prescribed information given – when making the order the Judge will also order that you pay the tenant compensation between 1 and 3 times the amount of the deposit..."

Nearlyold

SquirtleSquad wrote: »

It's quite a common piece of legislation.

I'm surprised you don't know about it, perhaps you missed it while you were plodding along on your high horse...

"...the tenant can apply to the court for the deposit to be protected and/or prescribed information given – when making the order the Judge will also order that you pay the tenant compensation between 1 and 3 times the amount of the deposit..."

Yes am well aware of the legislation, just can't see why when someone has vacated the property, had no apparent problems with the landlord and had the deposit back in full, they would then want to sue the landlord over not being given the prescribed information (particularly someone who is supposedly a landlord themselves and therefore fully familiar with the contents already) - it just seems so mean spirited and grasping but perhaps that's a symptom of the compo culture

SquirtleSquad

Nobody asked why as such, I didn't realise I had to justify requiring help.

As it happens the landlord was terrible. He regularly failed to warn me and my partner when builders would show up for maintenance etc. And on one particularly bad occasion we came back to the flat to find that they had installed an entry phone system (hurrah) and left a massive !!!! in the toilet (less hurrah) as well as a heap of dust over all our coats and floor.

When we told the landlord about this breach of privacy, they shrugged it off. Admitted no fault and, I quote "We usually don't get complaints when we make improvements to our properties". Those flats hadn't had doorbells for 8 years.