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Hello all,
If my landlord has not complied with the requirements of the Deposit protection scheme, can he evict us on grounds of section 8, 10 or 11. I know he can't use section 21.
I know he has not protected my deposit, I also know that if I try to get a court order he will get a slapped wrist and told to protect it but will not be asked to pay the three times the amount of deposit as stated in the Housing Act 2004.
The Landlord has been a complete nightmare. It took him three months to prepare the house following a burst water pipe. However, when I paid him the deposit he told me that one bedroom was not finished and he would have his decorators in within two weeks. It has now been four months and the problem is not just decoration. He is well aware that there is a serious damp problem coming in from where the chimney breast meets the roof. There is masses of mould on the remaining wallpaper, the window would not open as a key had been jammed and then snapped off in the lock. In a very poor DIY attempt a building a wardrobe, there is exposed mains wires, and the rear of light and plug sockets. We have also had no gas safety record.
Anyway, I felt that the only way to get his attention would be to withold rent. I was right, but I think it's got the wrong sort of attention and he is now threatening to have us evicted due to breaking the terms of the agreement.
Part of me is thinking perhaps we should move if this is how he is going to be, but part of me is thinking that we chose the house due to it's location which for our circumstances could not be better.
The neighbours have also had problems with our landlord when they have asked him to do something about the drains backing up and flooding their gardens (this was before we moved in).
Any help would be very much appreciated.
If my landlord has not complied with the requirements of the Deposit protection scheme, can he evict us on grounds of section 8, 10 or 11. I know he can't use section 21.
I know he has not protected my deposit, I also know that if I try to get a court order he will get a slapped wrist and told to protect it but will not be asked to pay the three times the amount of deposit as stated in the Housing Act 2004.
The Landlord has been a complete nightmare. It took him three months to prepare the house following a burst water pipe. However, when I paid him the deposit he told me that one bedroom was not finished and he would have his decorators in within two weeks. It has now been four months and the problem is not just decoration. He is well aware that there is a serious damp problem coming in from where the chimney breast meets the roof. There is masses of mould on the remaining wallpaper, the window would not open as a key had been jammed and then snapped off in the lock. In a very poor DIY attempt a building a wardrobe, there is exposed mains wires, and the rear of light and plug sockets. We have also had no gas safety record.
Anyway, I felt that the only way to get his attention would be to withold rent. I was right, but I think it's got the wrong sort of attention and he is now threatening to have us evicted due to breaking the terms of the agreement.
Part of me is thinking perhaps we should move if this is how he is going to be, but part of me is thinking that we chose the house due to it's location which for our circumstances could not be better.
The neighbours have also had problems with our landlord when they have asked him to do something about the drains backing up and flooding their gardens (this was before we moved in).
Any help would be very much appreciated.
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