Okay so we've just moved from private rented property from which we were there for several years.
We only ever had a contract for the first 6 months. We paid a deposit of £450 when first moving in.
We've been excellent tenants, always paid our rent by dd on time every month & really looked after the house, painted when need to. There were repairs that needed doing & the landlords favourite response was 'leave it with me' - well nothing was done, we never gave him any hassel. We were waiting 2 years for a skirting board to be replaced after he ripped off the damp rotting peice, it still hadn't been done when we left.
Anyway. When my hubby went to hand the keys over and collect the bond money back, the landlord was very rude & pointed out that the sofa he left for us wasn't in the same condition as it was when we first moved in so he was going to keep all our bond money. The sofa he put in the house was in fact one that he was going to skip, it belonged to his mother & as she has just bought a new 3 peice, she wanted rid of this one, but as we didn't have one, he put it in the house for us. To be honest, several years later with 2 kids under nine, its had some wear and tear.
So my husband and the landlord argued for sometime, I wasn't present but my husband said the landlord wasn't best pleased about us leaving & really didn't want to give us any money back. Eventually he paid us by cheque £300, taking £150 off for the sette saying it'll cost him to skip it.
I'm not happy, neither is my husband. But I can't help feeling something isn't right, the landlord is just being downright pathetic about it all. The day after we moved out my husband literally spent nearly all day cleaning the house top to bottom so it was spotless even the oven.