Good Grief!
Friday, August 1st, 2008 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanMuch to my surprise, it seems that the Deposit Protection Service (ti give it the proper name) is quite flexible and I may not need after all, to have ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
colonel_maxim lop off his paw and post it to me so I can use it to sign papers. I can do everything online when I get home tonight, no signatures needed, just certain security numbers provided when the deposit was lodged with them.
As much as I hate to give credit where it’s due, this government of ours may actually have got something right for once. The idea was a good one, to stop landlords just trousering deposits and withholding them for no reason, but to actually set up a system that allows the tenants access to the money once the landlord has made a repayment proposal, provide for interest and a dispute procedure…
All this and it actually works.
I think I may have to go and lie down.
colonel_maxim lop off his paw and post it to me so I can use it to sign papers. I can do everything online when I get home tonight, no signatures needed, just certain security numbers provided when the deposit was lodged with them.As much as I hate to give credit where it’s due, this government of ours may actually have got something right for once. The idea was a good one, to stop landlords just trousering deposits and withholding them for no reason, but to actually set up a system that allows the tenants access to the money once the landlord has made a repayment proposal, provide for interest and a dispute procedure…
All this and it actually works.
I think I may have to go and lie down.