Firstly apologies if this is in the wrong forum, it seemed the most logical choice!
Anyway, My girlfriend and I moved into an appartment 6 months ago and signed all the relevant paperwork with the landlord and handed over £950 as a deposit (along with £50 for the "Tenancy deposit protection scheme?")
After paying 4 months money to the landlord we recieved a letter from an insolvency company telling us we should now pay the rent to them as the Landlord has failed to keep up the payments on the mortgage. This I found quite odd as they didnt know any contact numbers for him, said they cant get hold of him by other means but to make sure we dont pay him anymore money and dont contact him again. The letter was hand delivered to all the flats in the block.
This did not stop our Landlord sending us a text claiming that we needed to send it to him still (he had never sent a reminder any month before this!)
So to be on the safe side we tell them we are keeping hold of the rent money in a safe account until the matter was resolved by the 2 parties and we knew who to pay it too.
Towards the end of the tenancy we still havent heard anything but have a letter from the landlord for our eviction (due to non payment of rent), the insolvency people tell us to ignore it and ask us what we wanted to do at the end of the tenancy.
We asked the insolovency company about our deposit, assuming that they will have taken control of that as well as the rent payments, they said they are not responsible and that we will need to chase the landlord for it - good blokes!
Last week we met at the property to hand the keys to the landlord. He arrived and wrote out a cheque for our deposit of £975 and sent us on our way. No mention of the 2 months missing payments.
Shock of shocks the cheque bounced and he is not returning any of my calls or messages.
I know we are still up 2 months rent but there is nothing to stop either party to chase us for the missing payments while we are still down our deposit.
Any ideas where I stand and what I can do next?
Cheers for any help guys
Anyway, My girlfriend and I moved into an appartment 6 months ago and signed all the relevant paperwork with the landlord and handed over £950 as a deposit (along with £50 for the "Tenancy deposit protection scheme?")
After paying 4 months money to the landlord we recieved a letter from an insolvency company telling us we should now pay the rent to them as the Landlord has failed to keep up the payments on the mortgage. This I found quite odd as they didnt know any contact numbers for him, said they cant get hold of him by other means but to make sure we dont pay him anymore money and dont contact him again. The letter was hand delivered to all the flats in the block.
This did not stop our Landlord sending us a text claiming that we needed to send it to him still (he had never sent a reminder any month before this!)
So to be on the safe side we tell them we are keeping hold of the rent money in a safe account until the matter was resolved by the 2 parties and we knew who to pay it too.
Towards the end of the tenancy we still havent heard anything but have a letter from the landlord for our eviction (due to non payment of rent), the insolvency people tell us to ignore it and ask us what we wanted to do at the end of the tenancy.
We asked the insolovency company about our deposit, assuming that they will have taken control of that as well as the rent payments, they said they are not responsible and that we will need to chase the landlord for it - good blokes!
Last week we met at the property to hand the keys to the landlord. He arrived and wrote out a cheque for our deposit of £975 and sent us on our way. No mention of the 2 months missing payments.
Shock of shocks the cheque bounced and he is not returning any of my calls or messages.
I know we are still up 2 months rent but there is nothing to stop either party to chase us for the missing payments while we are still down our deposit.
Any ideas where I stand and what I can do next?
Cheers for any help guys