Urgent thoughts please!

[Purplepeoniesdroppingpetals]

dd is at uni and their house has a shared tenancy. One of the tenants (uni student) seems to have lost the plot and has concealed something (very outing so I shall say that it defo breaks the tenancy agreement and their room will be in an absolute state). They’re refusing to let any other tenant into the room and it looks like they’ve just walked out. They’re refusing to bring the keys even. The other tenants could go to the police about this.

The rest of the house is in near perfect order and will be before they phone the emergency line for the management agent as they are very keen to make sure it’s clear that the other tenant has done this (frankly absolutely shitty and cruel thing) on their own and without anyone’s knowledge.

are they likely to get evicted? I am at a loss of what to say to some very upset and young students, feeling a long way from home. Only upside, they have managed to buy the widest range of cleaning products I have ever seen and the house will be amazing if they let them finish the year.

What is the extent of the damage? Now they’ve gained access to the room are they not able to hire a carpet cleaner to clean up the carpet, give the walls a coat of paint, fumigate etc? There’s only a certain amount of damage which can be done to a single bedroom, much of which must be salvageable, surely it’s not extensive enough that they’ll lose the entire deposit for the full house?

Get professional cleaners in. It is better than an argument with the landlord. If the lock is now broken I would talk to the agent about what is fair. Deposits must be held in a Deposit Scheme and they need to look at the rules regarding deposits of HMOs. The LL will have the deposit of the tenant who has done a runner. I know student landlords do try and get everyone to pay for communal areas if there are issues, but not for someone else’s room (in my experience).