 Deposit Claim letter
Hi there,
I wonder if any of you would be so kind to double check my letter and suggest any alterations. Basically I moved out on 18th March 2008, the letting agents have been useless when asking them about the deposit and keep going on about utility bills. I know the deposit is not protected, so I was going to send this letter in a week or two to get things moving.
However..
- The landlady hates the letting agents saying they always paid her late. However not my problem really!
- A few days before we moved out the landlady sent in decorators to decorate the rooms that had been vacated, as two of us moved out a few days before the tenancy ended.
- I googled the letting agency and apparantly the owner has gone in to hiding after oweing lots of landlords money, the agency changed name a few months ago.
Do I send this letter to the letting agents, landlady or both?
Anyway, heres the letter. Feel free to post anything.
Dear [Landlord’s or Agent’s name here]
[ADDRESS OF THE PROPERTY YOU RENT(ED) HERE]
I am the former tenant of the above property. My assured shorthold tenancy agreement is dated 17th July 2006, followed by renewals on 17th January 2007 and 17th July 2007 and ended on the 18th March 2008.
The original deposit of £1500 was paid in July 2006 as security against my obligations in the tenancy agreement.
This deposit should have been transferred to a recognised government deposit protection scheme on the 17th July 2007 as a new tenancy agreement was signed and created.
.Since then:
1. I believe you have not met the initial requirements of an authorised tenancy deposit protection
scheme; and
2. I have not been able to obtain confirmation from a scheme administrator that my deposit is
being held in accordance with such a scheme; and
3. I have not received the prescribed information which you are required by law to send me within
14 days of receiving my deposit
In the circumstances, I am entitled to have my deposit refunded, and you are requested to attend to this within 7 days of the date of this letter.
Please note all the utility bills have been transferred in to our name, and even if we did not pay them they would chase us, the former tenants and not the landlord.
If I do not hear from you within 7 days, with satisfactory evidence that you have complied with the obligations which the law imposes on you, I may begin legal proceedings to recover my deposit without further recourse to you. My claim will include a claim for any interest, costs and compensation to which I may be entitled.
Yours sincerely
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