The last time I moved out of a rented flat, back in 2017, the landlord tried to take my entire deposit. All £2,914.00 of it. To do so, he made false claims 📧 Read Victoria_Spratt's latest newsletter
“There is absolutely nothing stopping a bad landlord from trying to cling on to some or all of a deposit at the end of a tenancy,” says Ben Twomey, the chief executive of Generation Rent.
This is not legal. But it’s exactly the situation that a young woman reportedly found herself in last week when she moved out of her flat, despite cleaning and leaving it spotless. When I challenged my former landlord’s claims via the letting agent – a supposedly reputable national chain – I was sent scraps of paper with random amounts of money written on them which, I was told, were “receipts” for the damages.
First things first, renters are required to leave their home in the same condition it was in when they moved in.However, as Ben Twomey, the chief executive of Generation Rent, which campaigns for renters’ rights, notes, “false deposit claims are one of the most common problems in the private rented sector”. Sadly, he says “there is absolutely nothing stopping a bad landlord from trying to cling on to some or all of a deposit at the end of a tenancy”.
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