Hi,
I have read through the faqs and posts, but am still unclear about some things.
Let me give you some background first.
Me and 3 friends rented a 4 bed flat in london from September 2008, cant remember the exact date, but do have it somewhere. Our total rent was £32240 pa, with a deposit of £3100. We moved out on 13th April 2009, using the break clause in our contract and the landlord was fine with this. However they are now trying to make deductions from our deposit totalling £550, for several things, some legit, some were broken damaged when we moved in, and some that we feel should be covered under fair wear and tear. They have not provided us with an itemised list of each item and its cost. We have however said that we will pay for things that we can agree are our fault.
We had check in and check out reports done by an approved agent, and the landlord only seems to be taking into acount things in the check out report. We have not received a copy of either report, although im sure when we can get in contact with the guy that did them (same for in and out) he will send them to us.
Questions,
1) Should our deposit have been placed in a TDS? The landlord is now holding the deposit, which was realsed to him by the letting agent. Our tenacy agreement contains a specifc clause stating that the deposit must not be realsed to either us or the landlord without written concent from both tennant and landlord.
2) We signed an Assured Shorthold Tenacy Agreement, but after digging around abit it seems that these can only be used for rents below £25000, is this correct?
We have offered the landlord half the amount he is requesting to be done with everything so we can all move on, but he had rejected this. What options, other than paying the full amount do we have?
Thanks for any help you can give.
