Return of Student house rental deposit

dimbo61

How much deposit is the landlord and letting agents sitting on ?
How much did your Son pay ?
Get onto the deposit scheme the deposit was held with and claim the whole deposit back.
After this length of time the Landlord or his agent should have been in contact re deductions.

happyandcontented

dimbo61 wrote: »

How much deposit is the landlord and letting agents sitting on ?
How much did your Son pay ?
Get onto the deposit scheme the deposit was held with and claim the whole deposit back.
After this length of time the Landlord or his agent should have been in contact re deductions.

There were 5 of them in the house @ £400 each so a considerable amount of money is involved. I think they are just stringing it out hoping they will let it go. That is not going to happen.;)

AdrianC

happyandcontented wrote: »

...they said that there was some mould in the shower so they were withholding an amount for regrouting

They're 'avin' a giraffe...

"Some mould in the shower" needs ten minutes with an old toothbrush and some strong mould remover. It doesn't need all the old grout raking out, and regrouting.

need_an_answer

happyandcontented wrote: »

With regard to mouldy grout, that does happen in a shower but is that not wear and tear?

Personally I would not consider mould in the shower to be wear and tear.
I usually look at things with the view that if there is a product to clean something away,ie the mould then that should be incorporated into a cleaning routine.Wear and tear cant normally be cleaned away.

By the same token something can be old and if maintained well with a cleaning regime be perfectly serviceable.

That doesn't mean to say I too am of the opinion that perhaps £35 to clean/re grout the shower is on the high side and that's why I would suggest that some form of dispute is raised.


I guess where the "decision" for your son and his housemates comes in is whether they emphatically disagree with all the charge because they did leave things in the same state as they took them over or actually they agree they should pay something but just not at the level that's been proposed....that's where arbitration will do its job.

I totally understand that many students often don't have £70 a week to live on so will find it inconceivable that that can be the cost of a professional oven clean if they haven't taken the time to clean to the needed standard of the check in inventory before they leave the property and hand back the keys.
..but again as I said in an earlier post there are cheaper alternatives that they could have used other than relying on the choice of the LL via the deposit deduction.


am I also right in thinking that the cost of this will therefore also be split 5 ways so £190 plus £35 will be a little under £50 for each tenant....again £50 is a lot for anyone to lose but I guess there are also some that would put it down to experience and move on.


My student offspring raised a challenge regarding their bathroom and mould deductions last year,the house mates eventually won on the technicality that there was no ventilation in the room either by window or extractor fan so whilst they did concede that mould was a cleaning issue that they had not managed to combat fully with cleaning it was also recognised that the LL had failed to provide adequate ventilation to stop the build up.


I hope your son gets some satisfaction with his and his housemates challenge ...I say it often student accommodation is a minefield and the LL's a law unto themselves.

dimbo61

Look on the Letting agents website and find out which redress scheme they belong to !
Time to kick !!!
Claim the whole deposit back from the deposit people.
It is up too the Landlord and Letting agents to prove the condition of the house before the students moved in and when they left and not the other way round.
See what the deposit people say as they do not like Letting agents and or Landlords sitting on thousands of pounds of deposits.
PS I am a student landlord accredited with MSH.