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AST Agreement / Deposit Protection Scheme
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no law is "lawful" until it has been tested in the courts - so it is unfair of Squatnow to assume that everybody in the BTL business should know the new laws immediately.
The 2004 Act has already been modified by whitehall mandarins as a result of local authority housing departments feedback and landlord association lobbying against some of the more stupid clauses - for example the compulsion that every room in a HMO has to have a wash-hand basin has now been made optional as it was seen to be structurally inappropriate in many buildings.0 -
If your a professional landlord or letting agent you understand the laws that apply to you. That's where the "professional" bit comes from. If someone isn't a professional landlord and doesn't know what they are doing they should employ a letting agent that does
But, clearly, not the letting agent that danielson81 referred to in his first post ....So, do we ask the landlord/letting agent now or not say a thing and use it later (ie take to court for 3x amount) if we don't get our deposit back?
Warning ..... I'm a peri-menopausal axe-wielding maniac0
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