If the letting agent only ever protected part of the deposit paid, and then goes bust, how can you claim that money back?
Tag Archive: tenancy deposits
The new tenancy deposit rules that will put you at risk
Landlords need to protect deposits. But they must serve a form giving prescribed information. Have YOU done that for YOUR tenants? If you fail to do this after April you could be in big trouble …
What can the landlord do if he failed to protect the deposit?
A tenancy deposit question from a reader. His tenant, who has left the property in a poor state is threatening to sue the landlord for the full deposit as he failed to protect it in a scheme.
Evicting the tenant where deposit not put in a scheme
Looking at a question from a landlord who wants to evict a tenant but has failed to protect the deposit.
Can tenant get his deposit back mid term?
A tenant is worried about his landlord and agent parting company and what affect this will have on the return of the deposit
Lost deposit arbitration forms – is the agent liable?
The deposit money was returned to the tenant and there was no arbitration this as the forms were lost and the agents failed to chase them up. Are they liable?
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Deposit Guard – a new service from the RLA and TDS
The big news at the moment is that there is a new tenancy deposit scheme for landlords which has been launched jointly by the Dispute Service (TDS) and the Residential Landlords Association (RLA). This looks like it will be easy to use and the price cleverly undercuts the My Deposits scheme. As the TDS say,…