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Landlord Response to Deposit Scheme
amethyst175
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Hi, how long does a landlord have to respond to a request for return of deposit through the Deposit Scheme?
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Which country are we talking about ?? (Wales, NI...)Are you tenant, agent, solicitor, student researching, landlord??Where in the process are we? Is "request for return" e.g from tenant, with no evidence, for the full deposit when there are huge arrears & significant damage (only asking, not suggesting..)??Depends on what the tenancy agreement says and what the rules of the scheme being used say.I am sadly unable to read the former in your case, and for the latter as there are 3 schemes which will have different rules, plus the advice from the experts, Shelter, is different for custodial & insurance..Cheers!
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More information needed.
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It's in England. I'm the tenant. I've just responded to the landlords claim for over £3000 with my offer of £50 and stated I am happy to use their adjudication service. There are no arrears or significant damage.theartfullodger said:Which country are we talking about ?? (Wales, NI...)Are you tenant, agent, solicitor, student researching, landlord??Where in the process are we? Is "request for return" e.g from tenant, with no evidence, for the full deposit when there are huge arrears & significant damage (only asking, not suggesting..)??Depends on what the tenancy agreement says and what the rules of the scheme being used say.I am sadly unable to read the former in your case, and for the latter as there are 3 schemes which will have different rules, plus the advice from the experts, Shelter, is different for custodial & insurance..Cheers!0 -
Give the LL a reasonable period (5 days?) to respond.If you fail to reach agreement, raise a dispute.Has the LL broken down the £3000 into individual issues (I assume it's not just one massive thing broken like you smashed up the boiler?!) with amounts allocated to each item?Have you read the relevant schemes guides for tenants?Post 3: Deposits: Payment, Protection and Return.ps - starting two threads on the same issue is frustrating for respondants, and means relavant background information is spread around in different places!
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Sorry - I'm not very proficient with these forumsgreatcrested said:Give the LL a reasonable period (5 days?) to respond.If you fail to reach agreement, raise a dispute.Has the LL broken down the £3000 into individual issues (I assume it's not just one massive thing broken like you smashed up the boiler?!) with amounts allocated to each item?Have you read the relevant schemes guides for tenants?Post 3: Deposits: Payment, Protection and Return.ps - starting two threads on the same issue is frustrating for respondants, and means relavant background information is spread around in different places!0 -
That can be seen with all the duplicate type of threads?amethyst175 said:
Sorry - I'm not very proficient with these forumsgreatcrested said:Give the LL a reasonable period (5 days?) to respond.If you fail to reach agreement, raise a dispute.Has the LL broken down the £3000 into individual issues (I assume it's not just one massive thing broken like you smashed up the boiler?!) with amounts allocated to each item?Have you read the relevant schemes guides for tenants?Post 3: Deposits: Payment, Protection and Return.ps - starting two threads on the same issue is frustrating for respondants, and means relavant background information is spread around in different places!
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6214765/landlord-end-of-tenancy-claim#latest
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6206497/landlords-false-claims#latest
Perhaps just adding to one of your existing threads would have been simpler to all?
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