Letting agency deposit

Comms69

ethelion wrote: »

Fair enough.
But it is unfair that 1 tenant can decorate and another cannot. Wouldn't you call that discrimination anywhere else?

Discrimination is perfectly legal 99% of the time....

CarrieVS

ethelion wrote: »

Fair enough.
But it is unfair that 1 tenant can decorate and another cannot. Wouldn't you call that discrimination anywhere else?

No. It might be discrimination if they let the previous tenant do what they liked because of their [gender|race|religion|nationality|etc]. (And if you knew that and could prove it.) It's not discrimination if they change their mind between tenants.

I can see why you're upset - it sounds like the landlord would have wanted to redecorate those rooms anyway, so your changes are probably not costing them anything extra (if anything, your colour scheme might be easier to paint over.) To my mind, that's taking advantage, but it's his advantage to take - legally you have no leg to stand on.

lookstraightahead

Paint it back the way it was, I remember changing a toilet seat that was broken (not by us) and the landlord wanted to claim for putting one exactly the same back (as they don't actually have to do what they say). I'd kept it, so took my nice new one off and put the broken one back on.

FBaby

But it is unfair that 1 tenant can decorate and another cannot. Wouldn't you call that discrimination anywhere else?

More like LL Learnimg from their mistake if they gave permission ot expecting the tenants to decorate the house in unpopular colours.

losgiganteskid

G_M wrote: »

is it fair that one person can walk to Aldi and pay 23p for a can of beans but I have to drive as there's no shops here and petrol costs me £5 and then I have to pay Tesco 31p for the same beans?

Personally I would go to Lidl where the beans are 21p - furthermore I ran there behind a bus so saving myself 76p bus fare - next time I'm running behind a taxi and saving £3.75

lookstraightahead

losgiganteskid wrote: »

Personally I would go to Lidl where the beans are 21p - furthermore I ran there behind a bus so saving myself 76p bus fare - next time I'm running behind a taxi and saving £3.75

:rotfl::rotfl: I like it!

ThePants999

losgiganteskid wrote: »

Personally I would go to Lidl where the beans are 21p - furthermore I ran there behind a bus so saving myself 76p bus fare - next time I'm running behind a taxi and saving £3.75

I call shenanigans. There's no such thing as a 76p bus fare.

bsms1147

Speaking as someone with past experience of renting somewhere, a housemate's unsanctioned repainting of their room - pinky/purple - and at the end of the 1y the landlord quibbling it as they wanted to deduct for repainting, and us winning either most or all of the claimed amount, I'd consider holding firm and taking to the dispute service if needed.

[Deleted User]

You won't lose anything if you dispute the claim against the deposit. Include before and after photos, show if you had to fill the walls etc (improve them, whether its worth doing this depends on your painting skills).

No guarantees you will win, but I should imagine what you will have to pay, if anything will be considerably less than the LL is claiming. Particularly if a previous tenant had already repainted the place.