Good evening,
I went to see a property and we are interested to rent it but we have issues placing the deposit.
If we go to the website and click on the place that we want to rent all goes well. We click rent now (green button) and then appears the blue button for the holding deposit.
At this point it jumps to our previous messages with the landord.
Have you mutual agreement to place a holding deposit ?
You can’t just decide you want the property unilaterally. When a HD is placed all marketing and other viewings are cancelled.
do not do it again, it really annoys landlords . just keep looking, its tough as many landlords feel it is not worth the hassle so there will be less rentals around.
Hi Steve - just to clarify, this is not the case. Only when a holding deposit is accepted is action taken. A landlord has 72 hours to respond. Worth noting that whilst a deposit request hasn’t been accepted, the tenant can withdraw freely.