{"id":34,"date":"2026-07-19T11:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/2026\/07\/19\/landlord-kept-your-deposit-here-is-the-order-to-do-things-in\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:48:52","slug":"landlord-kept-your-deposit-here-is-the-order-to-do-things-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/2026\/07\/19\/landlord-kept-your-deposit-here-is-the-order-to-do-things-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Landlord kept your deposit? Here is the order to do things in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deposit disputes are among the most winnable matters we handle, provided you do things in the right order and keep the paper trail.<\/p>\n<h2>Step one: put it in writing<\/h2>\n<p>Email, not a phone call. Ask for an itemised statement of every deduction with supporting invoices, and give a clear deadline.<\/p>\n<h2>Step two: check the scheme<\/h2>\n<p>If the deposit should have been protected in a scheme and was not, that is often the strongest point in the file.<\/p>\n<h2>Step three: a formal letter before action<\/h2>\n<p>A properly drafted letter setting out the claim, the amount and the deadline resolves a large share of these disputes without a hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deposit disputes are among the most winnable matters we handle, provided you do things in the right order and keep the paper trail. Step&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}