A Tenant's guide to renting

herrano_italiano

If You Not Tell Them Strate Away, It Is Your Fault

albionautumn

herrano_italiano wrote: »

If You Not Tell Them Strate Away, It Is Your Fault

eeeek!! I'd hardly say its our fault!! The only reason we didn't make contact about it sooner, like I said, is because we weren't (still aren't) familiar with how immersion (sp??) water heaters work and thought maybe it was us doing something wrong

wilsoniho1

Im really hoping that someone could give me some advice as im not sure where to go to get help regarding my issue. I recently rented a property from letting agent in Warrington. Start date was 7th September 2012 but after contact with the actual landlord of the property we found out that the letting agents were taking money out of the rent saying I have been having call outs for things broken in the property which wasnt the case. The Letting agents then obviously said it was admin errors and it wont happen again. Subsequently the issues got worse between the landlord and the letting agents and I got caught in the middle. In the end I spoke to the letting agents to say I want to move out as my wife is 7 months pregnant and were facing too many issues because of what was heppening between the landlord and agent. They said if the landlord agrees to release me from the 12 month tenancy then I can. The landlord understood the situation and released me right away. Since then the letting agents have not released my deposit and owe me a weeks rent. They said that the landlord still owes them money so they wont release my deposit. The thing is thats nothing to do with me its between the letting agent and the landlord so why am i getting penailsed. They even sent an email to the landlord saying that if he wants they will take it from my deposit and then I have to chase the landlord for the money. Is that even legal?

I could really do with your advice on this and what I need to do?

Thanks
Chris

tbs624

wilsoniho1 wrote: »

Im really hoping that someone could give me some advice as im not sure where to go to get help regarding my issue. ....

Welcome as a newbie poster. If you go on to the main House Buying Renting and Selling Board and look up at top left you'll see a New Thread button.

Hit that and cut and paste your query to start your own specific thread - you'll get a greater number of responses that way

JoeA81

G_M wrote: »

The sticky needs updating to include the changes to deposit rules (Localism Act)

* timescales for registration of deposit AND provision of 'Prescribed Information'
* Penalties
* implications on S21 Notice

Many many tenants come on here at the end of their tenancy with no idea if their deposit is even registered, let alone what the implications are.

OK, I've changed the very first paragrapg of the guide to read as follows:

1. Ask what deposit protection scheme your deposit will be held with. By Law the LL/LA must protect your deposit with one of the approved schemes within 30 days of receipt of the money. Within this 30 day time limit they must also inform the T of the "Prescribed Information" which is a document outlining the specific scheme being used, the deposit amount, the names of the LL/LA and T, and all the details on how the scheme is operated in terms of disputes, etc. If the LL/LA does not do these two things within 30 days of receipt of the deposit, then the T can take them to court and claim for the amount of the original deposit plus a penalty of between 1 and 3 times this original value. This can even be done if the tenancy has ended. Failure of the LL/LA to protect the deposit within 30 days also stops them from being able to issue a Section 21 "notice to quit" which starts the legal procedings to end the tenancy. See section F for more detail.

I've also added a small section in Section F which reads:

If the LL/LA has failed to protect the deposit of the T within 30 days of receipt then they are unable to issue a Section 21, until they have either repaid the deposit in full (or with deducations as agreed by the tenant) or legal proceedings started by the T becuase of the LL/LAs failure to protect the deposit have come to a conclusion.

Hopefully that gets everything across. Let me know if it needs any tweaking.

Joe

Chimaera71

First time posting, but wanted to share the experience I am going through at the moment...

We have just relinquished the property we rented through s local Letting Agents; completed the final inspection yesterday.

This morning we received the LA's report into the final inspection, and to our dismay they've told us that due to stains on the carpet we will have to make a contribution to it being changed; the report states the stains (possibly oil based) 'were not present at the start of the tenancy'...luckily I made a video of the property when I had the viewing, due to my wife being unable to attend it.:j
The video quite clearly shows the state of the carpet to be actually worse during the viewing, complete with the clearly visible stains; I did mention that such a video existed during the final inspection to the letting agent.

So we rang them this morning to challenge them on this point; LA was adamant - and fairly condescending too - that the stains were NOT there at the tenancy commencement.

So we have now emailed them the screenshots of the carpet stains taken from the viewing video; I await their decision.

Also - and I am not sure if this should have been permitted - I noted from the final inspection walk around that the LA stated that the landlord had actually revisited the property after the initial inventory had been made?
And upon re-checking on my inventory list the LA listed the smoke detectors at the property as being untested due to being 'unable to reach', which I thiought was a tad naughty...

Thoughts anyone?

grifferz

chimaera71 wrote: »

Thoughts anyone?

For best range of responses you need to put this in its own thread,not at the end of a massive one about a specific subject unrelated to yours.

raspberryrippl3

incredibly useful post thank you!

Palmer89

Hi,

Me and my partner are moving out of a rented flat next week, when we moved we did not go through or receive an inventory. There has been damage in the flat due to penetrating damp (there have been 2 professionals confirming this) and this has created mould and wallpaper peeling.

There is also a remote missing for an electric fireplace, we never received this and did not bother going to the LL as we were not that concerned about having the fireplace.

Considering no inventory took place when we moved in, is there anything the LL can do to take money from our deposit, we did not cause any of the issues but if the LL was to try and take a sum out of our deposit would they be able to do this when there was no inventory when we moved in?

The deposit was placed into a protection scheme.

Thanks

Geno123

I wish I read this before I moved in.

I have a shoddy landlord but it seems she can get away with it while I'll struggle to get a reference for a new place.

It's so depressing.....