Unite Accomodation Allensbank house

abbas_bhanji

Please Dont Stay With Unite Accomodation, You Will Regret It, They Dont Pay Back The Security Deposit! Instead They Will Hand Your Case To A Debt Collection Agency If U Ask About The Deposit, SO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ALL YOUR RECIPTS FOR THE PAID RENT

Karl.H_2

My next year's accommodation people call it an 'agency fee'. I will be writing letters to see whether this is legal. £100 "agency fee" seems like a rip off.

celyn90

Hmm.... I pay an agency fee each year to the letting agent I rent my property from - I think it's normal to pay a fee. This year they would like £250 from us (private sector, 1-bed apartment). It's in the terms of the contract though - so if we don't want to pay the fee then they will not let to us.

Karl.H_2

That's what I was afraid off. This agency fee for students must be new, because I have on my current house a refundable deposit.

welf_man

abbas_bhanji wrote: »

Please Dont Stay With Unite Accomodation, You Will Regret It, They Dont Pay Back The Security Deposit! Instead They Will Hand Your Case To A Debt Collection Agency If U Ask About The Deposit, SO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ALL YOUR RECIPTS FOR THE PAID RENT

If it's a true deposit, and you signed an agreement to commence after 7th April 2007, then the deposit should have been held in a Tenancy Deposit Scheme. Even if this doesn't apply, there are steps available. Get to your Accommodation Office or Students' Union and ask for assstance.

Mel.

barnabee

This building, like many of the new student builds in Cardiff, would be covered by the code of standards concerning larger developments not owned directly by a teaching or training establishment. click here.

I don't understand in the OP's post why a debt collection agency would be called in to get back a security deposit - perhaps I have misread the post.

celyn90

Karl.H wrote: »

That's what I was afraid off. This agency fee for students must be new, because I have on my current house a refundable deposit.

We have a refundable deposit on our property too - as well as having to pay the agency fee so when we moved in originally they wanted a cheque for over £2000 - for the deposit (2 months), 1st months rent and the agency fee. They will still expect a deposit from you, it's just the agency charges as well.

I'm a student too but my partner works and there isn't much in the way of student accomodation for couples as we aren't eligable to rent from the University so had to rent in the private sector.

[Deleted User]

unite are awful! I stayed in one of their halls and the staff binned my mail, nothing was ever fixed and staff were rude and disorganised. Thankfully they were so disorganised that I didn't get a tenancy agreement to sign whilst there. So after 3 months I moved out, they tried to claim I owed them a years rent to which I replied that I hadn't signed any kind of agreement and there fore owed them nothing and that they could take a running jump. Funnily enough they left me alone after that.