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New tenant added to tenancy, no new inventory, inventory signed by 1 tenant

Started by ccyberfis, August 12, 2018, 02:42:30 PM

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ccyberfis

Your help and advice is greatly welcome.
August 2012 Tenancy agreement with Mrs A - signed by Mrs A
August 2012 Mrs A's deposit put with DPS
August 2012 Inventory signed by Mrs A

Nov 2015 New tenancy drawn up for Mr and Mrs A

Sep 2017 Checkout inventory signed by Mr A

We have had to spend over £2k to put the house back as it was.
Despite Mr A signing the Inventory which details all of the problems Mrs A refuses to release any of the deposit to me.

The deposit with the DPS is £757 so if I go with the DPS ADR scheme I will still be about £1,500 out of date so will have to go to the small claims court

As
- the deposit is from Mr A not Mr and Mrs A
- there was no new inventory in Nov 2015
- only Mr A signed the checkout inventory

Any idea where I stand legally
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Hippogriff

Just go via the Deposit Scheme's ADR process? You surely don't need to consider "going legal" at this juncture?

Martha

Does not make any sense to me. You say the deposit is from Mr A, but you accepted the deposit from Mrs A in 2012