yes i did and to his address but the last two times i wrote himi got no reply which is why i sent the summons to the rental address i will just have to re issue after ive spoken to the courts tomorrow thanks

BTW did you send a LBA letter & to which address? What does this mean

the landlord still owns the house and collects his mail when required

Hello i have taken my ex landlord to court over non payment of deposit and he has until 3rd July to defend himself . my question is iIissued the summons to the address where i was renting ( the landlord still owns the house and collects his mail when required ) and not where the landlord is liviing. Do i have to re issue the summons to the landlords address or press for judgement on friday!! Thankyou Hines 316

thank you mr planner

my rent pay date was the 25th of the month and i gave one months notice and left on the 1st. six days after the rent pay date , because i did not give notice before or on the rent pay date i am liable for rent up the 25th of the following month

i am going to take my ex ll to court as he has not returned any of my £900 deposit. the LL is entitled to take 6 days rent (go to search and type in hines316 for full story) i want to use the online service but to claim i have to put in a fixed amount which i do not want to as i want a judge to be able to offer me more what is the best way of taking my LL to court and letting the Judge decide on the amount thank you David Hines

thanks for your comments this has helped me out a lot and put my mind at rest i am going to write a letter to my ex LL, requesting my (£900 deposit backminus 26th august - 24th september rent. Giving the LL seven days to pay or i write again with a view to court action Is this the right way to go now!!!!

i will find the tennancy agreement and put on this board so it would make things a little clearer

and thank you everyone for putting your points of views to me. i have about ten days left to see if i get my statment and pro rota deposit and if not to take the LL to court which i am happy to do

i paid up to the 25th of august and my LL said that he will deduct the six days over i stayed out of the deposit

so if i can not leave mid month then i should get back 50% of my desposit as my leaving date in the court eyes will be 25th September 2007 is this right?

whats wrong?

thats what i thought thankyou

Good day On the 25th November 2006 i signed a six months fixed tennancy agreement for a two bed cottage paid a months rent £450 and two months deposit £900 and after six months the tennancy wiil revert to a month to month tennancy On the 31st July 2007 i gave one months written notice that i will be leaving the cottage on the 29th August 2007 and i hand posted the notice through my LL home letterbox. four days passed with no reply so i sent the same letter by recorded delivery and my LL finally replied to me on the 6th August. A couple of days later i recieved a rather frosty letter from my LL who said that i should have given a full calender months notice and because my month to month starts on the 25 August that in effect i have only given 19 days Notice and if they re -let the house out on before i leave then there will be no problem To cut a long story short i moved out of the cottage on the 1st September. The LL did the inventory and meters check and signed a note to say that the cottage was left in a clean state and all is well. He then said that he spoke to his solicitor who told him that i can not leave mid month. And his his words ( that the clock will keep ticking until he finds a new tennant. Then he will send me an itemised statement with a cheque for whats left of my £900 Deposit. He assured me that he had a tennant moving in soon and that we would recive the bill /statement in the next few days. It has been twenty days since and i have recieved nothing also i have seen the cottage re advertised in the paper . I feel that my deposit has gone but i also know that the LL has a legal right to take up to 30 days to repay the deposit. I have decided that i am going to take my LL to the small Claims court from the 1st october as i feel i have a strong case IE I have mobile statements to prove that i tried to contact my LL at least 18 times from the 2nd – 6th august, to show that my notice period started on the 31st July/1st August and not on the 6th August as my LL Says it started There is no mention of giving a full calendar month in the tennancy agreement I have taken multi pictures of every room inside and outside to show the courts that the house was left spotless I stayed for the full notice pediod So the only Questions i have is can my LL do this? Does it matter in a court of law that i did not give my notice to quit before the start of the month to month (25th of the month) and waited untill the 31st? I have just brought a house of my own so hopefully i wont have to put up with this **** again but i want my money back and i want to stop this LL doing this again to the next tennant. Thanks for taking time out to read this posting and i look forward to the repiles Hines316