Importance of sticking to DPS RULES.

Any landlord that is tempted to disregard the Deposit Protection Scheme on the basis that they are a good person and will treat their tenants properly and that the law and justice will prevail should read this recent post.

It is a tale of how a landlord suffered from being owed three months of rent and having their apartment trashed still ended up out of pocket despite the court accepting that the tenants actions were wrong!

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This is because the tenants counter sued and used the provisions of the DPS legislation to claim that they had not been notified correctly under the provisions of section 213 of the 2004 Housing Act.

Make sure you donwload your FREE section 213 Notice when taking a tenancy deposit.

Those landlords that still haven't provided their tenant with a section 213 notice should do it immediately even if they failed to provide the required information at the time of the tenancy. Some recent court cases have shown that if the landlord has provided the tenant with the section 213 information to the tenant by the time the case gets to court the judge is reluctant to award the claim of 3 months rent against the landlord for failure to comply with the legislation.