I am hoping for some advice from anyone who has knowledge of the rental/inventory/deposit system. My husband and I rented a house for 2 years with our two children. We have just bought our first house (yay) and have therefore moved out of the rental. We have received an email from the landlord of the house we have just vacated saying we owe him over £1000 to repair the house! We are a quiet family who work hard and enjoy time together at weekends, no wild parties or any activities which would cause any damage to his house whatsoever. It was unfurnished so he had no items we could have damaged. We have the inventory check out form which says a bush was over grown, one light bulb was missing, the outside of the windows weren't professionally cleaned (true) and some doors had some marks on them. We had it professionally cleaned and to us, seemed in excellent clean condition upon our exit. The house itself was in disrepair when we moved in with spotlights falling out the ceiling, leaks from the bathroom down the stairs, a washing machine with buttons falling off and a damp issue in one of the bedrooms causing the wallpaper to peel off. We feel really stressed about this as we do not have 1.5 thousand pounds and more-so, feel this is a ludicrous amount of money for an unfair situation which is mostly wear and tear. Before moving out we offered to repaint a few walls where there were marks, but he gave us the wrong shade of paint and is now charging us to rectify this despite telling us the paint to use! Anyway, I'm hoping someone has some idea on what we can do. Sadly, he is a private landlord and therefore the agent who gets him the tenants is impartial therefore we can't seek them for advice but as I understand it, if we wish to challenge him then we need photographic evidence, of which we now cannot obtain. Thanks to anyone who responds.