Henry Pryor

Jeremy Vine - 10th April 2015. Wrangling over rent deposits


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As LibDems announce a manifesto promise of helping some tenants with a loan for their rental deposit I'm talking to 'Peter Pan' of Radio 2 about the problems of rent deposits. We're joined by Hannah Williams, founder of RentalRaters.com. Is this a big issue? My research suggests that there are over 4m private tenants, the average rent deposit is £1008 and disputes between landlords and tenants only happens in under 1% of leases. The arbitration services find in favour of landlords around 50% of the time and the biggest problem which causes over half of all disputes is over the cleanliness of the property when the tenant moves out.

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