Regular readers will remember the Court of Appeal decision in the case of Tiensia v Vision Enterprises Ltd (t/a Universal Estates). This drove a ‘coach and horses’ through the tenancy deposit legislation by saying that landlords could protect the deposit up to a day before the court hearing date. However this case was in the…
Way back last August, I did a post on checkin procedures. This post is about the other end of the tenancy where you are supposed to have a check out meeting with your landlord or landlords agent or inventory clerk, to check the condition of the property. I was prompted to write this post by…
What do you do if your tenant only pays part of his deposit? This is a question I have been asked several times. Often tenants cannot afford to pay the whole sum in one go and ask their landlord if they can pay by installments. Sometimes landlords, wanting to be reasonable, will agree to this….
The law on tenancy deposits and the three times the deposit penalty for non compliance is a bit up in the air at the moment. There are, I understand, several cases in the pipeline waiting for High Court and (perhaps) Court of Appeal decisions, plus there are the potential changes in the Localism Bill. However…
Deposit regulation came into force in April 2007. What is the situation regarding tenancy deposits paid to landlords before then? The general view is that the deposit needs to be protected in a scheme if the tenancy is ‘renewed’, for example by the tenant signing a new agreement or renewal form. Although no money has…
There are a number of benefits which come with the tenancy deposit scheme. One of these is the right, if you can’t agree on deductions from the deposit money at the end of the tenancy, to refer this to a free adjudication service. Needless to say it is not all plain sailing. Here are some…
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Localism Bill to amend tenancy deposit regulations
The Tiensia case more or less put a coach and horses through the tenancy deposit regulations. In fact when I spoke at a Landlords Association meeting recently, one of the things I was asked to speak about was the ‘new’ tenancy deposit rules. “Is it now necessary to lodge them or can you hold them…