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Can agent ask me to pay for a hob that is chipped?
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The part of the deposit which wasn't in dispute was returned to the tenant immediately, long before the dispute - of course!Were_Doomed said:
In your case had any of the deposit been returned at that point?Falafels said:
All I can tell you is that the adjudicator did just that, in my case.alandaniel132 said:
The adjudicator will not deduct more than the disputed amount from the deposit.Falafels said:To the OP - when I rented out my property, a tenant caused serious damage to my hob. I offered a settlement, which he didn't accept, and he took me to the TDS - who awarded me more than my initial offer.
Look at the responses you've had on here. They will help you decide what a reasonable offer should be, and only go to the TDS if you can show that you've been polite and reasonable throughout. It's not true that you've got nothing to lose; they don't always find in favour of the tenant and, in the case of my little guy, the fact that his correspondence was rude and intimidatory did him no good at all.0 -
Thank you for your reply.Falafels said:
The part of the deposit which wasn't in dispute was returned to the tenant immediately, long before the dispute - of course!Were_Doomed said:
In your case had any of the deposit been returned at that point?Falafels said:
All I can tell you is that the adjudicator did just that, in my case.alandaniel132 said:
The adjudicator will not deduct more than the disputed amount from the deposit.Falafels said:To the OP - when I rented out my property, a tenant caused serious damage to my hob. I offered a settlement, which he didn't accept, and he took me to the TDS - who awarded me more than my initial offer.
Look at the responses you've had on here. They will help you decide what a reasonable offer should be, and only go to the TDS if you can show that you've been polite and reasonable throughout. It's not true that you've got nothing to lose; they don't always find in favour of the tenant and, in the case of my little guy, the fact that his correspondence was rude and intimidatory did him no good at all.
Did the tenant need to pay more than the amount of dispute for your case?0
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