A room was advertised for £189 per week. When I enquired about the room, the letting agent told me rent was calculated by day so for a 30day month rent would be 189/7 * 30. We agreed that for a tenancy from mid December to start of June . He then told me to move in, I would need to sign the contract, pay the 4 weeks deposit and first months rent. I understood this to mean that first month rent would be equal to a 30 or 31 days worth of rent so payed the holding deposit and completed my reference checks. Upon receiving the contract, the rent due was £907.20 to be paid over 5 monthly instalments. As a result of this I withdrew from my application and asked for refund of holding deposit stating that payment structure was different to what I had agreed to. Landlord response was that as they had stated that rent was calculated by day I had sufficient information about the rent payments and so refused to refund holding deposit. He claimed that as the total amount of rent payable was the same there were no issues. Is he right or can I get a refund of holding deposit?
posting this twice will not get you an answer any quicker
To be fair Colin. The first post was in the ‘tenant’ chat and this one in the Landlord & legal chat. You may monitor all 3, but not everybody will, so I can understand why posters do this.
In answer to the question. Im not sure of the legalities of this. Effectively, if I have understood corrcectly, you are being asked to pay 6m rent, over 5months. How is this written into the contract? Can you copy/paste any wording?
Rather than monthly payments constituting to 30/31 days worth of rent they asked for 5 instalments over 5 months of £907.20 which totals to 6 months worth of rent.
This had not been communicated to me prior as I was told in writing by letting agent that month rent would be 189/7 * 30 which comes to £810 for a 30 day month.
The landlord has said that since the total amount of rent is the same then I cannot complain and so won’t refund holding deposit.
However, I believe since the structure of rent payments is different to what I had been told before then I have a strong claim.
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