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Got a claim from landlord for 4 weeks rent and one months notice totalling £1103 including stat interest. I want to defend in full as he was in breach of contract (imo) due to letting himself into the bedsit, not providing his address details when asked for, controlling the heating and telling us to use the oven if we wanted heat (provable in texts he sent) plus he failed to put the deposit in a TDS. I will scan up his Claim (doing it himself - not a solicitor) as soon as I have worked out how to do it but for now this is what his poc are: Issue Date - 19th November 2012 Help is most definately appreciated. Thankyou Bridget

Hi, I am new here and wondered if I could get some advice to do with my landlord please? I have been living in a bedsit with my BF until I was pregnant we then needed to move into a 2 bedroom property. We told the LL last year we would be moving out and it would be short notice as it was going to be a housing association property. We didn't know when we'd move out, we were waiting until one was available and we had viewed it. If the property was ok with us we were given the keys there and then. The lanlord was happy with this and there was no problem. That was last year and again this year he had said just to keep him updated and as soon as we had somewhere to let him know. Over the last year and the cold we have been complaining more and more about the fact we have been cold in the bedsit. (Rent inclusive of heating) He had just said things like turn the oven on. After I had my baby we were alot more concerned about the bad weather and wanted the heating on but he had it set on timer with no way of turning it on when we wanted it. Someone has told me that the LL has been in breach of the Tenants Landlords Act as the heating has not been available for us to use when it's been required. This began a downhill slope on the relationship as we became more and more frustrated with lack of heating when we had our baby (didn't bother us as much when it was just us but it did with our newborn) A couple of months before we moved out we asked which TDS the deposit was with? He said it wasn't with anyone and that he had used it for rent when the old landlord had sold him the property as this was what he was told the deposit was for. Now we have moved out he is saying we needed to give him a months notice and so the deposit will go towards that and that we still owe him money. We have texts from the LL saying he just wanted to be kept up-to-date when we move out. We have texts saying that he hasn't used the TDS. What is the best thing to do? We think we should write a letter holding the LL in breach of tenancy because the heating wasn't on when it was required, he let himself into the bedsit when he wanted to talk to us or get the rent (without knocking) and the elctrics would trip if too many things were switched on. We have the signed deposit slip still from when we moved in. Should we do any of the following in any particular order? 1) write landlord with all our complaints and say we will go to court if not sorted? 2) go to private lettings at coucil and report the matters to them? (what will they do?) 3) take landlord to small claims court for TDS failure to get rent back and also breach of tenancy? Any suggfestions please? Thankyou