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Marslander45
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Bought my home after renting it for 9 years. Agency and landlady dragging heels with returning deposit - deposit with TDS custodial. Also completion for house buy meant I had over paid by 2 weeks rent. I’m also trying to get that back too. Not sure where I stand legally as agency keep telling me old landlady has to give permission for me to have deposit back and that I need to get rent off landlady myself even though I paid the rent to the agency for 9 years and never dealt with the landlady . Any advice?
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Start by reclaiming the whole deposit through the scheme.If you've have not made a mistake, you've made nothing2
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Stop waising time with agency or landlord. Go on TDS and request deposit release.
https://www.tenancydepositscheme.com/tenants/request-repayment/
You have provided zero details on your notice to quit, so you will get zero advice.
Good luck with new house. You have freed yourself from rental schackles.
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You make a claim to the deposit protection scheme for your deposit back. They them will contact the landlady and ask if she has any objections or wants any of it for damage ( unlikely as you've just bought the house from her). If she has no objections they will refund the deposit to you. The agent has nothing to do with this1
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yet another tenant who for 9 years has not found out how the world has been amended to protect them (at expense of the LL) but doubtless would be front of any queue for claiming compensation if there was a sniff of such
OP claim deposit direct from the respective scheme - you can look up how to do a one sided claim yourself
as for overpaid rent learn the process for making a court claim if you want to do the formal route of meaningful threats to force issues2 -
Congratulations on buying your home OP - it must be quite a strange feeling knowing it's now all yours!
I take it you have already dealt with changing the locks - in the circumstances probably an annoying inconvenience, but definitely something that ought to be done.
I suspect that your solicitor ought to have included the overpaid rent on the financial statement at completion - did you let them know about it?🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her0
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