rent deposit return - bills

gemrol

Hi guys I am new to this.
I am in real need of advice.
We moved out of our previous property one month ago, our landlord was out of the country at the time so his son came to do the inspection and handover keys. We were led to believe that he would have the deposit with him but he didn't so we wrote out a statement explaining that the house was left in a reasonable standard and that his parents would be in touch to return the deposit and him and my partner signed it.
We didn't hear of them for a few day so we sent an email. He then claimed that we had destroyed a piece of furniture. However the furniture in question was thrown away on request from the landlords wife.
She came for an inspection and told me that she didn't even realise that it was still in the property and that if it was taking up space then to get rid. This is now being denied by them.
When we moved into the property there was no inventory as we were told they didn't want to pay for one.
We have issued them with a pre action letter requesting the return of our deposit but as of yet we have not received anything and that was 3 weeks ago.
Also we have since found out that the deposit was not protected so we cant dispute it that way.
We have been told to go to the small claims court but we are unsure on how to do this and to be honest a little scared as he is a business man with lots of money and we are just a couple with 3 kids on a low income so this money is a lot for us.
Please and help and advice would be grateful.

Guest101

gemrol wrote: »

Hi guys I am new to this.
I am in real need of advice.
We moved out of our previous property one month ago, our landlord was out of the country at the time so his son came to do the inspection and handover keys. We were led to believe that he would have the deposit with him but he didn't so we wrote out a statement explaining that the house was left in a reasonable standard and that his parents would be in touch to return the deposit and him and my partner signed it.
We didn't hear of them for a few day so we sent an email. He then claimed that we had destroyed a piece of furniture. However the furniture in question was thrown away on request from the landlords wife.
She came for an inspection and told me that she didn't even realise that it was still in the property and that if it was taking up space then to get rid. This is now being denied by them.
When we moved into the property there was no inventory as we were told they didn't want to pay for one.
We have issued them with a pre action letter requesting the return of our deposit but as of yet we have not received anything and that was 3 weeks ago.
Also we have since found out that the deposit was not protected so we cant dispute it that way.
We have been told to go to the small claims court but we are unsure on how to do this and to be honest a little scared as he is a business man with lots of money and we are just a couple with 3 kids on a low income so this money is a lot for us.
Please and help and advice would be grateful.

1: start your own thread
2: don't worry small claims is easy you just talk over a table basically
3: might be with mentioning that the lack of protection will lead to a larger suit= x3 the deposit value

gemrol

hi how do I start my own thread sorry never done this before.

Guest101

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=16


Click new thread on the left hand side.


- the advice I gave will be mirrored in the replies you receive so if I was you I'd take that into consideration when posting the new thread