Abigail
29-08-2010, 13:31
I moved into my house 29th July 2010. I paid £150 deposit in May (can't remember exact date) plus a month's rent in advance when I moved in.
We haven't been told that our deposit has been placed in a scheme yet. I was wondering how long we should wait before raising this with our landlady. Being a student, £450 back sounds great but I don't want to make things difficult with her. We've got ~10 months on the tenancy and having an awkward landlady is not something I want to deal with. We moved here on the recommendation of a friend who had no issues last year.
The house is let by a private landlord, not through an agency. She does seem a genuinely nice person and perhaps she has registered the deposits and not told us. She is very organised though which makes me think that's not the case.
Is there a way of finding out if the deposit has been registered without talking to her first? I had a look on the TDS website but they didn't specify a time limit for registering deposits and had next to no useful information that I didn't already know.
We haven't been told that our deposit has been placed in a scheme yet. I was wondering how long we should wait before raising this with our landlady. Being a student, £450 back sounds great but I don't want to make things difficult with her. We've got ~10 months on the tenancy and having an awkward landlady is not something I want to deal with. We moved here on the recommendation of a friend who had no issues last year.
The house is let by a private landlord, not through an agency. She does seem a genuinely nice person and perhaps she has registered the deposits and not told us. She is very organised though which makes me think that's not the case.
Is there a way of finding out if the deposit has been registered without talking to her first? I had a look on the TDS website but they didn't specify a time limit for registering deposits and had next to no useful information that I didn't already know.