A tenant recently wrote to me with a sad story:
“I vacated my property in February 2009, and due to the DPS not returning my deposit I became homeless. As the landlord and I were in dispute over the return of the deposit I had no option that to pursue the claim through the county [...]
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DPS – tenant with CCJ unable to claim back tenancy deposit
mytenancydeposit.co.uk – not a recognised tenancy deposit company
I, and probably many landlords and other property professionals, have received notifications from both The Deposit Protection Service and MyDeposits warning that the web-site mytenancydeposit.co.uk is not that of a government authorised tenancy deposit scheme.
Landlords and agents should beware. If you protect your deposit with this company, this will not constitute compliance with the [...]
Landlords out of pocket for deposits – DPS may be best after all!
A report published in The Times today highlights the growing problem of landlords having to pay up for deposits, when agents go bust.
Under the two ‘insurance based’ tenancy deposit schemes (MyDeposits and the Tenancy Deposit Scheme run by the Dispute Service) if the agent deals with the deposit on behalf of the landlord, the agent [...]
Complaints against the DPS – the governments response
There has been quite a bit of discussion below about problems a few landlords have had with arbitration’s carried out for the DPS, in particular relating to evidence not being passed over to the adjudicator. One of my landlord members had a similar problem, and she wrote to the Department of Communities and Local [...]
Complaints about the DPS
Despite the comments made in my previous post on complaints about the DPS, I have received a few further emails and blog comments outlining further problems with the DPS service. In one of my comments to this post, I mention the complaints procedure which is referred to in the FAQ on the DPS [...]
DPS open to all landlords
Having seen comments on forums about the Deposit Protection Service refusing to accept deposits from landlords, for example if the money is paid over more than 14 days after it is paid to them (putting them in default of the scheme, unable to evict tenants under s21, and vulnerable to being sued for the ‘fine’ [...]
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Tenancy deposit protction – now only 30% failure
In July 2008 I did a post called Tenancy Deposit Protection – 62% failure which was based on a survey done by the Deposit Protection Service (DPS), one of the three tenancy deposit protection schemes. This survey said that 62% of landlords were flouting the law and not protecting tenants deposits as they should [...]
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