What are the implications when tenants swap in and out of a tenancy?
Students often swap tenancies – it's important for agents to keep up to date with check-ins and check-outs
The Deposit Diaries
Sandy Bastin
Director of Resolution, TDS
Deposit diaries: Why a landlord’s claim of mould ’caused by tenants’ lifestyle’ was rejected
Adjudicator rules that landlord must foot entire cost of redecoration
What happens when all in the garden is not quite rosy at the end of a tenancy?
The Deposit Diaries: Dispute between landlord and tenant over state of the garden
The Deposit Diaries: No dispute – so return the money
The portion of deposit that is not a matter of dispute should be returned to the tenant
Deposit disputes: No smoke without fire – the case of an unswept chimney
Tenants forfeit £75 after failing to have chimney swept
The Deposit Diaries: When is tenant or landlord responsible for burst pipes and damage?
Tenant leaves heating on during time away from property but then there's a cold snap...
The Deposit Diaries: Half empty or half full?
Sandy Bastin, assistant director of Dispute Resolution at TDS, looks at a recent decision and sets out the reasoning behind it