If you step on the real estate ladder, you can also leave a rented house – and this means that you must receive your down payment from your landlord.
This extra money is gratefully received at a time when you feel that you have leaked money – but how can you ensure that you get all the money back?
To help you Go.com Pare Home Insurance has revealed the main reasons why tenants lose their money when leaving their rental homes.
The comparison site investigated tenants to find out the main cause of the deduction of rental positos and discovered that the best reason was to clean the costs.
In the past two years that almost two-thirds (63%) of the tenants who lost some of their down payment said that cleaning costs were among the reasons given the highest part of each category in the study.
After these material damage and re -destruction costs were mentioned as the next most likely reason that deposits were remembered from tenants. Both were mentioned by just over a quarter (26%) of the tenants in the study among tenants who had lost part of their deposit in recent years.
Fewer common reasons include the reimbursements for throwing away abandoned items (6%), as well as unpaid rental and missing articles, both of which were reasons for landlords to 4% of the tenants. Another 2% were told that part of their deposit was retained to cover outstanding bills.
A small number tenants More dubious reasons were given to retain their deposit. It was claimed that they were told that the grass was not short enough in the garden, while another said they were being charged because of missing keys that were never in the first place.
Some added that they were not given any reason, while others stated that the reasons were fully manufactured.
So how do you prevent that falls in one of these categories? According to Go.Compare, the key is due to the planning.
Nathan Blackler, house insurance expert at Go.Compare, said: “Deposit returns can be a source of friction when lease contracts end. It is clear that most tenants who have experienced this have the feeling that their money was kept unfair.
“If this is the case, it means that landlords wrongly retain thousands of pounds.
“To minimize the opportunities to lose your deposit, take photos of the property when you first move and when you leave to show how you left it compared to the start of your rent.
“You can ask your landlord to sign a cash register inventory that includes the state of the luminaires and fittings. Make sure that all outstanding costs for the property are also paid.”
But what if you lose part of your deposit and feel that it has been wrongly refused? Blackler said that in this case you can dispute it via your deposit protection schedule.
If your down payment is not placed in a security scheme, you must go to the Small Claims court.
“Consider going to the advice of the citizens before you decide which action should be taken,” he advised, “because they could help you to assess your circumstances and decide on the best option in the future.”