Daily Tip For Free 29/04/13

[silverzx]

if they don't put the deposit into a correct government approved holding scheme they are liable to pay you back 3 times the amount taken, I'm not 100% sure now how to sort it, but guessing it would be small claims court and pretty sure its an instant win for you.

not sure how it would work as you have taken £350 and can be seen as excepted this as full payment. You'd probably have been better off to say I'm not accepting a penny less, taken longer but got more in the end.

s14 looks fun by the way!

I know what you mean.

I basically said to them the whole time I don't agree with this sum which means they shouldn't of taken it until an agreement was settled in which case it normally goes to the independent deposit scheme company who come and re examine the property to compare it to its original state. They didn't use a deposit scheme so this didn't happen.

At the time I went to make a quick phone call to seek advice and the next thing I know the money has been bullied into my partners hand, they've locked us out the flat and the Land Ladies BF has gone to get in the car whilst the Land Lady started making a receipt for my partner to sign.

At that point I realised what was going on and said we wouldn't sign anything, they left promptly.

Our neighbours were hanging out the window and witnessed the money being forced to my partner if that makes and difference.

I do also have a hand written receipt from her saying she received the £500 back in September.