The contract we recieved originaly in 2000 when we moved in says the deposit will be held by the landlord as security and will be repayable to the tenant only after the end of the tenancy after deduction of any sums rewuired to compensate the landlord of any breach of obligation on the tenants part. We did pay 100 for painting etc when we left thet house. The AST we recieved in 2002, when we were leaving the house does not mention anything about a deposit. Just gives us the date we must have moved out of the house by, and has our names and address and the name and address the landlord lived at at that time. hmmm

Thanks guys...i am very greatful for the help you are giving. Yes the landlord did pay half the deposit in 2002 and i have it written on a typed note from him, however..... What i need to know is that if what i quoted from this note in my last reply is enough evidence that the landlord paid half the debt in 2002 and that it is good enough proof to use. Or the way it is written......does it make it sound like we settled for juat half payment of the deposit?? This is what is scaring me coz the wording of it does not mention anything about future payment of te other half. Thanks again Jay

Ok, i finally found the contract from the original house. it turns out that the deposit is the same amount as i woe him in rent in this current house. I also found paperwork stating that in march 2002 he was paying me half the deposit back because the agency was still holding the deposit. We had verbally agreed that when he took them to court, or when i stop renting from him and move away he would pay the other half of the damage deposit back. This was only a verbal agreement....The paperwork i have states: "ON AGREEANCE WITH ORIGINAL TENENTS HALF THE DAMAGE DEPOSIT STILL RETAINED BY INTRODUCTORY AGENT WILL BE DEDUCTED FROM THE 1ST MARCH RENT IN AGREEANCE WITH LANDLORD" PLEASE ANY ADVISE ON THIS WOULD BE GREAT: Does this make it sound like we agreed to only get half the deposit back?? We verbally agreed that he would take them to court...which he did and won the case but hasnt got the money back yet. Or that when i move out of his second house(wheer i am moving from now) he would pay the money back. About the postcodes.... Well im just doing some reasearch on the "solicitors" letter he sent me....and seems the postcode does not exist. From the Postcode definitions: The second half of the Postcode is always consistent numeric, alpha, alpha format.....when the postcode on this letter ends in numeric, numeric, alpha!! Also the letter gives me 5 days to reply to the client(the landlord) and it does not even have an address or telephone number on it for him. I know his mumber but i dont know his current address....i arranged a meeting with him lastnight and he cancelled it! The letter is also not even on headed paper and so seems like he is trying to put the ****s up me and make me pay up the money.

also...the post code on the letter is E7 NumberNumberletter......which looks odd to me....do all postcodes in london not end in two letters?

Really? Sounds good. I have a letter stating the date we moved out in march 2002....which was when the ball started rolling about the deposit issues and i have asked the landlord on a number of occasions about when we would get the money back over the past few years. But its not until now...when we are moving out and will loose contact with the landlord that i want to resolve this once and for all. Afterall...in my opinion....he wouldnt have taken the agency to court if it wasnt his liability!!??? I recieved a letter from his "solicitor" today. Stating that the agency ripped us, the tennents off, not the landlord...i quote... "What happened was the agency preyed on 4 gullable and innocent tennents in order to maximise their profit.This is not the fault of our client that they have taken your funds. Our client on your behalf has taken the agency to court." The agency tricked the landlord into signing a two year contract, so this ment he had to pay them the months rent and our deposit as fees. Its his faulf for not checking what he was signing. What the landlord is trying to claim is that because the money(the deposit) never reached his account, he is not responsible to pay it back and we should sue the agency if we want it back.

We mobved into the house in december 2000 so its more than 6 years....but we only moved out in March 2002. Is it too late??

Cheers guys....man there is so much info on this site....where do i go to get started? My eyes are falling out of the sockets....its been a long day!

Thanks Rouster Uk and Tezl, I will get reading....and tomorrow ill call jay112 for a quote lol!..........only thing thats been worrying me is that its been so long since its all started now that i thought the banks must have come up with some way of making it very difficult for people to do this without the help of lawyers etc. ok, now to find these threads.......

Hello, Ok this is long but if you have time please read and any advise would be greatly appreciated. I moved out of my house in march 2002. When i rented the house i got it through an agancy. The agencys fees (to the landlord) was 1 months rent per year he wanted to rent the house. He decided to rent the house for 1 year but when he signed the contract they had changed it from when he seen it originaly, from a one year to a two year contract. Hence they kept the one months rent and the one months deposit to cover their fees. So when i moved funnily i moved to another property of the same landlord in 2002. Because he didnt have the deposit and he said he was taking the agency to court to reslove the issue we decided that he would pay me half the deposit back until he resolved the issue with the agency. He took them to court and he won the case......But because the acency keeps changing their name he has been unable to get the money back. Now that i am moving from this house(over 5 years later) the whole issue has come up again and he is saying that this is not his problem and that he done what he can to get the money back and basically that he will not pay me the half of the deposit he ows me. To top this all off......we are living in a shared house which 2 years ago had the combi-boiler replaced. He got some botch job done on replacing it and ripped part of the kitchen floor up. took all the cupboards off the walls and never put anything back, so for the last two years our kitchen has been full of mice and most of the cupboards are unuseable, there is a big gap between the back of the bottom cupboards and the walls and none of the doors on the cupboards close properly. Because of this....i have not paid rent for the past few months. The rent i ow him comes to almost exactly what he ows me from the deposit from the previous house. But he is threatning me with courts and bailifs etc. Do i have any case at all? What can i do? Is he responsible to pay me the full deposit from the old house back even though the agency "tricked him into signing a 2 year contract? Sould i even be paying rent to live with a kitchen like this? Is there a no-win no-fee kind of solicitors that can help with this kind of case in london? Any help or advise would be great. Thank You Jay

Hello all, First of all, i am new here so please forgive if i have posted this in the wrong place. I have incured quite alot of unfair bank charges over the past years and obviously i want to get them back. Has anyone used companies to do this for them? I have seen a few companies advertise but they want 25% of the money the banks ow you to cover their costs. I think this is a bit too much? no? Please does anybody know of companies to do this at a fair rate? Any advise is appreciated. I would do it myself but i think it would take too much time and im not sure if i would be able to get all the money and interest etc. Hope to hear from somebody soon. Jay :o)