hi,
i was looking for some advice/opinions on my situation.
we have overpaid our rent by £125.00 we paid a full months rent before moving out, but new tenants moved in earlier than the full month.
the landlord has agreed that we are owed this much, and had agreed to pay it back to our account. we never recieved it. we have this in and email from him.
in the meantime, we've had to sort out our deposit through tds, he had deducted it from the amount he was claiming for, though it still ended up that he was claiming for mor than our deposit...in total £1400.00. our dispute has now been settled, from a deposit of £1030.00 he was awarded £600.00 and us £430.00. they have stated that they are not allowed to award or deduct overpaid rent.
so we are still owed £125.00 from the landlord. i don't think we're going to get this money from him, he's not paid before when he said he would and i'm sure he wants to keep it to make up for the award we got from the deposit.
is it worth us taking to the small claims court? i'd like to, just for the hell of it...but would we definately win in this situation? we can't really afford to lose.
the other thing that concerns me is that if we do this, he will then take us to court for the remaining amount of deposit. are the judges likely to go against what tds have already decided? it wasn't for anything major, we had got slightly less than what we had expected we would...he hadn't taken into account for wear and tear on any items he was claiming for and from the report we had back they've corrected this and i'm happy with their decision, it does seem fair.
any help appreciated,
claire
i was looking for some advice/opinions on my situation.
we have overpaid our rent by £125.00 we paid a full months rent before moving out, but new tenants moved in earlier than the full month.
the landlord has agreed that we are owed this much, and had agreed to pay it back to our account. we never recieved it. we have this in and email from him.
in the meantime, we've had to sort out our deposit through tds, he had deducted it from the amount he was claiming for, though it still ended up that he was claiming for mor than our deposit...in total £1400.00. our dispute has now been settled, from a deposit of £1030.00 he was awarded £600.00 and us £430.00. they have stated that they are not allowed to award or deduct overpaid rent.
so we are still owed £125.00 from the landlord. i don't think we're going to get this money from him, he's not paid before when he said he would and i'm sure he wants to keep it to make up for the award we got from the deposit.
is it worth us taking to the small claims court? i'd like to, just for the hell of it...but would we definately win in this situation? we can't really afford to lose.
the other thing that concerns me is that if we do this, he will then take us to court for the remaining amount of deposit. are the judges likely to go against what tds have already decided? it wasn't for anything major, we had got slightly less than what we had expected we would...he hadn't taken into account for wear and tear on any items he was claiming for and from the report we had back they've corrected this and i'm happy with their decision, it does seem fair.
any help appreciated,
claire
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