I need some advice surrounding who to address my claim to for noncompliance with deposit scheme regulations in the UK. The Assured Shorthold Tenancy was signed in the name of the landlord with the estate agent - who we paid our deposit to - as the managing agent of the landlord. They have been dishonest and lied about the deposit being protected - its all in writing and i feel we have a good case against them for small claims court. However since the signing of the tenancy contract the real estate agents told us that we had to pay rent into a different account, that the name of the company has changed - but nothing else would change ie. its the same lady working there, same address etc.Later they decided they want to change the name of the landlord to his wifes name - however we have never signed any new contract with them so no AST in the wifes name. I have tried doing a company search on the original name of the estate agents and can not even find them as a dissolved company. Who do i address my claim to??? I feel they are acting very dodgy in the way they have changed both landlord and agents names in an effort to evade their liability... 1. does this mean i address my claim to the estate agents as the landlords managing agents under their new trading name? Because if i address the claim to the original estate agents name they could probably defend that that company doesnt exist ( or from what i can see from a company search never did exist ). 2. Do i also send the claim to the original landlord? 3. Should i do a property search and find the actual name of the owner? The one owner owns all 12 flats. Any help with this would be appreciated, i have everything else i need to file the claim....!

They returned your deposit then you have nothing more to do with them. They probably meant to address the letter to the later tenants... we had similar problems with estate agents writing to us at our new address for months after we moved out to come and do a property inspection on our previous flat.

I need some advice surrounding who to address my claim to for noncompliance with deposit scheme regulations in the UK. The Assured Shorthold Tenancy was signed in the name of the landlord with the estate agent - who we paid our deposit to - as the managing agent of the landlord. They have been dishonest and lied about the deposit being protected - its all in writing and i feel we have a good case against them for small claims court. However since the signing of the tenancy contract the real estate agents told us that we had to pay rent into a different account, that the name of the company has changed - but nothing else would change ie. its the same lady working there, same address etc.Later they decided they want to change the name of the landlord to his wifes name - however we have never signed any new contract with them so no AST in the wifes name. I have tried doing a company search on the original name of the estate agents and can not even find them as a dissolved company. Who do i address my claim to??? I feel they are acting very dodgy in the way they have changed both landlord and agents names in an effort to evade their liability... 1. does this mean i address my claim to the estate agents as the landlords managing agents under their new trading name? Because if i address the claim to the original estate agents name they could probably defend that that company doesnt exist ( or from what i can see from a company search never did exist ). 2. Do i also send the claim to the original landlord? 3. Should i do a property search and find the actual name of the owner? The one owner owns all 12 flats. Any help with this would be appreciated, i have everything else i need to file the claim....!

Hi, Thanks for that, dead right though i do not see any reason why i should sign a contract and not just one but 2 backdated to 2008. When we already have a standing contract which has lapsed into periodic. So claiming for the deposit not sure who to claim against tenancy signed 2007 to landlord A and real estate A 2007 Landlord told me after having to repeatedly chase that our deposit was protected in 2009 real estate changed name from A to B last week real estate advised me on phone of intent to change tenancy agreement out of landlord A name into landlord B name B being his wife and sent us 2 backdated contracts to 2008 Real estate told me verbally last week that they hold my deposit even after writiing to them many times asking about the deposit which they ignored. Do i claim against landlord A, landlord B (A's wife), Real Estate A which now trades under B?

Hi, I live in a private rental we moved in and paid the deposit in October 2007. At the time we had just come from having very bad problems with the last real estate trying not to pay back our deposit so i sent numerous emails asking the new real estate and landlord if our deposit was protected. The landlord eventually wrote back after loads of email requests and told me it was held with www.mydeposits.co.uk. This satisfied me until we have been trying to get some minor maintenance repaired in the property for the last 14 months and the real estate have become at some times unreachable. So i checked on the deposit and www.mydeposits.co.uk told me there is no deposit held for this address ( or the 2 addresses next door for the x9 flats the landlord owns). In the last year the real estate changed their trading name, and now after being completely unresponsive for the last 9 months despite repeated emails to them asking them to put our deposit in a scheme today they sent me x2 tenancy agreement contracts asking me to backdate to 2008 and change the name of the landlord. my understanding is that as they didnt renew it in 2008 that it has lapsed into a periodic tenancy where the contract has expired but we sill pay rent on a monthly basis. I wish to apply through the courts for my deposit to be returned and claim for the x3 deposit and interest for the last 2.5 years. questions are. 1. Who do i address the court order to - the landlord that is on our current standing contract , the real estate under the name we took the property with in 2007? or the landlords wife who we found out today they wish to change the tenancy ageement into's name or the new name for the real estate? Obviously they know they are in the wrong and have not offered any explanation as to why they want to change the name on the tenancy from him to his wife as requested. 2. As we have already contacted them and have proof on email of this including the lie from the landlord in 2007 telling me he had deposited our money into the above scheme can i apply directly to the court without having to approach the real estate again on the matter. I have found other forum posts where people have offered text to use on the court forms and advice on which forms to use I should be ok doing this part on my own. Any advice would be kindly appreciated. I have seen some good advice on these forums from particular people who obviously have some legal background so i pray they find this post and offer me some help.