“DPS not acting fairly towards landlords...”
1 Star Review
Oct 04,2021
By:
'Eve'
Oct 04,2021
Services: Lettings (as a Landlord)
Rent PCM: £2000
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: BA2
Lettings (as a Landlord)
Rent PCM: £2000
Postcode: BA2
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Previous student tenants left our property dirty, despite a clause that they should leave it as found (professionally cleaned, including carpets). We had photographic evidence. Our agent applied to the DPS for the costs of around £200 to be taken from the deposit, and we were ...
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This is a deposit holding scheme which is supposed to be impartial. If a tenant doesn't clean the property, then they should pay for it in full. Why should a landlord have to cover this cost so that the tenants have a clean property to move into? In Germany and other countries, it is clear you must leave a property clean. We rented in Germany, and were chastised for a pinhead speck of limescale on a tap, a smear on a window (which we'd cleaned), and a cobweb on the ceiling. Get a grip, Deposit Protection Service, and stop siding with slovenly tenants.
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