http://lettinglinks.com/blog/renting-a-property-with-pets.html LettingLinks is a FREE social utility that connects property landlords with tenants. People use LettingLinks to find suitable tenants and properties to rent. Why pay for the privilege of finding a person to live in your property? Register your details as a landlord or tenant and connect with one another now. Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:03:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://lettinglinks.com/blog/renting-a-property-with-pets.html#comment-160 Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:04:34 +0000 http://lettinglinks.com/blog/?p=129#comment-160 This is an issue that I have dealt with for some of my Letting Agent clients whose pcoliy is to deal with s21 at the outset.Remember that the s21 Notice cannot be a valid one until the Deposit has been protectedMy suggestion is that the way to deal with this is for a checklist to be prepared for the Agent to work through on grant of the tenancy. This contains an entry for completing the AST agreement and giving a completed copy to Tenant. The next entry deals with protecting the Deposit (which should be done online there and then, either by transmission to DPS or TDS/MyDeposiits)and giving relevant Prescribed Information to the Tenant. The next entry is signing s21 Notice on behalf of Landlord and giving to Tenant. This is followed by getting Tenant to sign a receipt for the s21 Notice which specifically states that the notice was given and received after the Tenant had been given the signed AST and the Prescribed Information on Deposit Protection. This receipt should therefore cover this possible defence. The checklist, backed up by a statement from the Agent that these steps were undertaken in the correct order, ought to seal the issue for the judge if there is such a defenceUnfortunatley this may not be sufficient to stop the court giving a hearing on an accelerated claim if such a defence is raised

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