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Rental deposit and tenancy insurance

Icansmellthesea · 2017-07-08 15:57:14

Hello all, New to this forum but have a few burning questions regarding a recent tenancy we finished. Finally got onto the property ladder and move in last week. The property we moved out of was privately rented where we have £995 deposit held with Deposit Protection Service. Before we handed the keys back we cleaned the…

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G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite

9 July 2017 at 5:09PM

Icansmellthesea wrote: »

Thanks GM. We've actually realised the original contract signed November 2014 was valid for 12 months and we never signed a contract extension. We verbally agreed to 12 month extension in Nov 2016.

We were given notice in April this year (3 days after the birth of our son) as she needed to move back in. That's when we decided to buy.

So with no signed tenancy agreement does that change anything?

No.

:j

And no again.

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