A tenant reader seeks answers to questions on periodic tenancy and tenancy deposit problems – including the amont of notice he has to give
Tag Archive: tenancy deposits
Will my landlord blame me for pre-existing damage at checkout?
Tenants are often worried, in the absence of a detailed inventory, that their landlord will seek to blame them for minor damage which was present when the property was let
Can the deposit be taken off future rent?
A tenant asks about using the tenancy deposit for future rent and whether this is something the lead tenant can authorise the deposit to be used for.
Six months rent in advance is a deposit says Judge
A report of Johnson v. Old where a County Court Judge held that rent paid six months in advance was a deposit which required protection
Should I have re-protected the deposit when the tenant moved to a new property?
What needs to be done as regards the deposit, when tenants move to another property with the same landlord?
Are these agents charges justified?
A letting agent is charging a release fee even though they have not protected the deposit. What are the tenants rights?
DepositGuard – the Landlord Law Interview
Last week I did an interview with Alan Ward of the Residential Landlords Association and Ben Beadle of TDS on the new tenancy deposit scheme DepositGuard. It was quite a wide ranging discussion which you can listen to in the video below. Note that the discussion (which was recorded on 18 April) has a scoop…
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