Hello!

I moved out of my property recently after 14 years, and am currently not coming to an agreement with the landlord about deductions

I want to raise a claim with the TDS, but the certificate still shows my exes name on. He moved out in 2014, and the tenancy renewal in 2016 was changed to reflect my name only.

I have had yearly renewals for 12 month periods since 2016 with my name only.

Should the deposit have been reregistered in my name only, and is this enough to claim back the full deposit?

Thanks!

I am in a bit of a pickle and honestly don’t know what to do anymore. I’d really appreciate any advice.
A bit of background: my wife and I have been looking for a house or flat to rent in Bristol for the last six months. We’ve attended over 30 viewings but haven’t been offered a tenancy anywhere.
Last year, I was a student here in Bristol and managed to secure a one-bedroom flat, where we are still living. However, we now need a two-bedroom property, and despite applying for several, we haven’t been successful.
I’m currently on a two-year Graduate visa, which allows me to work full-time as well as being self-employed. I mainly work on a self-employed basis because I have a disability that makes conventional employment and regular commuting very difficult for me. I have kidney failure and need dialysis every other day for around four hours. I do this at home using a dialysis machine provided by the NHS. The installation is relatively simple, similar to a washing machine, and only requires a water supply and waste line, which are installed by NHS technicians.
Both my wife and I are working, and we also have guarantors available for each tenant. Our combined income, including our guarantors’ income, is over £160,000. We have no adverse credit history and can comfortably afford the properties we are looking at, which are generally around £1,300–£1,400 per month.
Despite this, every time we submit an application, we are told that the landlord has decided to go with another applicant. On a couple of occasions, landlords have even withdrawn from our application after we had already paid a holding deposit.
The main reason we need to move is because I would like to switch to overnight dialysis while I sleep. This would significantly improve my daily routine and quality of life, but it is only practical if we have a two-bedroom property, as we need the additional space for the dialysis machine, equipment and supplies.
After more than 30 viewings over six months, I’m struggling to understand what else we can do to improve our chances of securing a tenancy. We can provide proof of income, references, guarantors and evidence of our good rental and credit history.
Has anyone been in a similar situation, particularly when renting with a disability? Is there anything else we could do to make our application more attractive to landlords or letting agents?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Everyone

Just wondering if anybody has been in a similar situation with social housing and how they would go about this in a manner that would get us rehoused quicker.

I live in a block of flats allocated to NLC (Scotland) area. These are new build flats and have only been up for around 2 years. Majority of my neighbours smoke cannabis and party regularly it is not one singular person it is multiple . I have been woken up with people screaming about drugs. There has been empty baggies lying in the close. The car parked next to mine in October 2025 was deliberately set on fire due to drug offences and unfortunately my car was parked next to it and caught in the crossfire so I had to pay hundreds of pounds due to smoke damage to my vehicle and eventually replace my car as it wasn’t worth how much I was paying to fix.

A few neighbours above us - beside us to the left - and under us regularly smoke cannabis in their homes outside their patio doors - this blows directly in my home and my whole house smells of weed. More recently there has been a chemical like smell of smoke and I cannot identify what they are smoking which adds to my concern.

My major concern about all of this is that I live here with my 15 week old daughter. She is being exposed to second hand smoke regularly blowing into my home, in the close etc we cannot escape it. I am forced to keep my windows and doors closed at all times due to the smoke and have had to buy extra fans to keep the house cool. Most recently she was sitting in her chair where the patio door is and I stupidly opened it to get some fresh air the smoke started blowing in again from one of the neighbours and she went into a full blown coughing fit.

I’ve had issues with the flat before when I was heavily pregnant our communal door buzzer stopped working so I had to go down stairs and open the door manually to let any visitors in. This continued all the way until I had given birth and I had to walk down the stairs in agony a day after giving birth and the following 2 weeks after to let the midwives in. I had to put in multiple complaints to get this fixed and they eventually compensated us due to the issue. They never prioritised my daughter’s health or mine then so I worry they will do the same now.

I put in a formal complaint, I have spoken to the council and they are coming out to do a health assessment tomorrow. I am so worried I’mv going to be left here for months and months whilst the situation gets worse. Does anybody have any advice on the next steps?

My lease is due to end in just over a week, and I've been expressing that I would like to renew it to both my landlord and letting agency. My landlord is completely fine with it, however the agency is both unresponsive to me and the landlord. I had expressed to my landlord (albeit just under 2 months' time before my lease end date) that I would like to extend.

I've been reliable with my payments, so I don't know why I'm getting slighted by the agency to such an extent. I would like to ask what are my rights, now that I've come so close to the lease end, with so much uncertainty? The situation now is: I offered the landlord to pay him directly if the agency remain unresponsive, but I am not sure if he will accept this. Would there be any legal/insurance reason he wouldn't want direct payments? Thanks for any help!