Deposit Paid - No keys!!

Renno123

Hi everyone. I have a major problem. I am supposed to be moving into a house with a 12 month contract. there are 4 of us moving in. When we wre viewing the property the estate agent informed us the landlord would prefer professionals. 2 of us are postgraduate students and 2 are working full time.
we informed her of this straight away. the next morning i rand confirming the house was still on the market. she confirmed. I explained that we would be looking at putting down the deposit.
The estate agent got very disrespectful, accused me of being a liar for not telling her I was a student etc.. i rang to inform the other people we werent getting the house to discover that 2 mins after I rang one of the guys put down the deposit and "secured the house". the deposit is 1000 euro .
after that the estate agent said we wouldnt get the keys untill we gathered previous letting agreements. the next day she wanted work references. it is a week today since the deposit was paid. yesterday we brought in all the documentation and she handed them back, questioning the credibility of the documents. today we went in to tell her that we want the keys or deposit now.
she informed us we couldnt get the deposit if we back out, and we would just have to wait untill she gave the owner the references to decide if we get to sign a lease or not.

I no longer want the house and personally feel astonished at how badly we have been treated.
we have been emailing everyday about getting the keys but get no reply and
our phone calls go unanswered. then when we call in in person
we get sneered at.

We are at our whits end. For 2 of us our previous tenant agreement has ended today.

I am going to contact threshold tomorrow but want to know if legally she can keep the deposit this long , whilst still not sending us a lease.
so far she just has 1000 euro belong to us.........

help :eek:

Milk & Honey

You are entitled to your deposit back. Numerous threads.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=73762829

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=75644221

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=67868302

Renno123

thanks, however it seems a bit conflicting.

areyawell

Tell her you no longer want the house and demand the deposit back in the next three days. If not tell her you are getting in contact with the small claims court.

Renno123

areyawell wrote: »

Tell her you no longer want the house and demand the deposit back in the next three days. If not tell her you are getting in contact with the small claims court.

are we guaranteed the deposit back because we signed no lease?

Zamboni

Someone posted this before and was spot on.
Four of you stand outside the office front door with a loud bell and a sign stating the agent is witholding your money.
You should have the cash promptly.