Tenancy deposit question *boring thread alert*

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My internet search skills have failed me thus far, so i thought i'd check on here to see if there are any landlords or letting agents in the know :) Me and two friends have just finished a tenancy and are having a dispute over a few things to do with the deposit.

The landlord has returned our deposits in full, but is now trying to charge us for a few small things, amounting to £80 in total.

Our deposit was protected by a government approved tenancy deposit scheme, are they allowed to do this, and are we legally bound to send them the money?

Any help would be appreciated :)
 
I'd say that if he has released the money through the scheme, then you are away and free. Both parties had to agree in order for it to be released. To retrospectively come back at you with a bill will be fruitless for the landlord, if indeed this is what the situation is.

If the money is in your account, just ignore, the landlord can't do a thing.

Edit: I should add, this is irrespective of whether you did the damage or not, so don't worry!
 
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physichull said:
I'd say that if he has released the money through the scheme, then you are away and free. Both parties had to agree in order for it to be released. To retrospectively come back at you with a bill will be fruitless for the landlord, if indeed this is what the situation is.

If the money is in your account, just ignore, the landlord can't do a thing.
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This.

Landlord should have raised a dispute through the deposit scheme for the monies he is charging you for.
 
If he's given you the deposit back, he can still try to claim from it but his only avenue is the small claims court. You can present his agreement to return the deposit in full with no deductions as evidence that no deductions should be made!

Ignore.
 
He's either stupid and let the deposit go before filing for any charges or he knows a deposit scheme would never have sided with him so just let the deposit go and hopes you'll be stupid enough to just pay up.
 
ci_newman said:
What does the £80 actually cover, i.e. final gas / electricity statements?
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some cleaning, and some rubbish left that wasn't actually ours (a cheeky neighbour dumped it on our front garden when they saw we were leaving). Everything has been sorted bill-wise and rent wise :)

And thanks guys, that's what i thought, but just checking. We were concerned about possible legal action etc, but what they're trying to do sounds dodgy, so we'll leave it.
 
I fancy boys said:
some cleaning, and some rubbish left that wasn't actually ours (a cheeky neighbour dumped it on our front garden when they saw we were leaving). Everything has been sorted bill-wise and rent wise :)
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In fairness to the landlord you should give the property back the way you received it (Im sure you know this :))
There should have been a "check-out inventory" between you and landlord, surely the so called rubbish couldn't have just appeared with you knowing?

Can you clarify did the rubbish appear AFTER you left the property?
 
Might be worth offering him 50% as a sweetener, don't want to shoot yourself in the foot over future tenancy references?
 
Cavallino said:
In fairness to the landlord you should give the property back the way you received it (Im sure you know this :))
There should have been a "check-out inventory" between you and landlord, surely the so called rubbish couldn't have just appeared with you knowing?

Can you clarify did the rubbish appear AFTER you left the property?
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Oh don't get me wrong, i completely agree with you. However i can assure you that we left the property in a better condition than when we found it. Indeed there was an inventory, everything was fine on that. The rubbish was left outside our house, it was a set of shelves that none of us had ever seen before. And yes it was after we left the property, so we had no idea it was there until we received the complaint.
 
If the shoe was on the other foot none of you would ever see a penny,

That's why they are all relatively rich.
 
Fob said:
If the shoe was on the other foot none of you would ever see a penny,

That's why they are all relatively rich.
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Hmm?

You mean if he hadn't given the money back through the scheme you think the landlord could have claimed whatever he liked?

You misunderstand what these deposit schemes do.

If there's disagreement there must be proof which is why landlords or their agents take inventories and pictures on inspection if they want to feel secure about making claims on deposits.

But as has been said the money has been returned through the scheme with no claims so he's screwed himself if he's noticed something he doesn't like now.

If you have no particular need of his goodwill or think he's trying it on then he's got an uphill battle to get any money out of you after signing off the deposit return.
 
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