Tenancy deposit question *boring thread alert*

[deusexlumina]

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

 

[deusexlumina]

What does the £80 actually cover, i.e. final gas / electricity statements?

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.

 

[deusexlumina]

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?

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.