We have put a five hundred pound deposit down on a nice flat to rent week as this flat is up for sale. No-one has been to look and the price we think is too high, but the whole uncertainty was doing my head in. Put our notice in for this flat last week and this morning I got a phone call from the agent saying the landlord would give us first refusal on all the furniture in here, and take a third off the rent, about £230 a month!! But now we are comitted to the other flat which is £50 a month more than the original rent here! But we would never have known the landlord would slash the rent unless we put our notice in. Having DS would make it too risky to put our notice in before we found somewhere, hence we did it this way round. No advice needed, obviously. Just how annoying!!!!