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Damage deposit

This is the issue. I saw on the Kent site how it is £200 and I only got £100 back, is it because the damage deposit has increased this year for 2008/9? Was it £100 for 2007/8 and now it is £200?

Yes.

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Cowberg

Yes.

lol yes to what? Yes it has gone up?

Reply 3

Cowberg

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Yes to the spontaneous second question.

It was £100 for us, and now it's, I guess, £200. Mah finks it woz becoz we woz breakin lotza stufz.

Reply 4

ChicaBonita

From what I've heard you were very lucky to get it back, I've basically been told to just not expect it back, and include it in the accomodation costs (which is absolutely brilliant when you have no money anyway to live on :frown:

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Uhhhh no fair :grr:

lovely

i dont think i got my money, i left my room in a state :/

Reply 8

Truered

1

Twas £100 for me.

Got a cheque back four days before I left (Tyler A).

Then again the week before a person had checked the rooms, and the only mess I had was a few too many empty cans of drink :giggle:

Reply 9

Blue Rose

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ChicaBonita

From what I've heard you were very lucky to get it back, I've basically been told to just not expect it back, and include it in the accomodation costs (which is absolutely brilliant when you have no money anyway to live on :frown:

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Why would you not get it back? On the last day when you sign out they give you an envelope with a cheque? You go and cash the cheque and then you have it back? So surely people that haven't haven't signed out or enquired about it because they are all ready on the last day.

Reply 10

cinnamon442

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So moral of the story is, live like a pig all year but make sure your room is spotless two weeks before you leave it. :smile:

Sounds like a plan.

Blue Rose

W would you not get it back? On the last day when you sign out they give you an envelope with a cheque? You go and cash the cheque and then you have it back? So surely people that haven't haven't signed out or enquired about it because they are all ready on the last day.

Yes, but someone goes round during the last few weeks and checks rooms randomly. So i'm guessing the people who's rooms aren't satisfactory don't have a cheque in their envelope because they take down room numbers. I wondered about that too.

Reply 13

ChicaBonita

Blue Rose

Why would you not get it back? On the last day when you sign out they give you an envelope with a cheque? You go and cash the cheque and then you have it back? So surely people that haven't haven't signed out or enquired about it because they are all ready on the last day.

Well I'm not kind of authority on it, but I've read around that most people don't get it back. Especially due to the communal areas, where is one person leaves it in a bit of a mess/ destroys something, everyone doesn't get their thing back.
That's why they have a damage deposit, so that they don't necessarily give it back, otherwise what would be the point?

Reply 14

Truered

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ChicaBonita

Especially due to the communal areas, where is one person leaves it in a bit of a mess

Especially when a person moving out clears out their room and dumps four bags of rubbish in the kitchen before leaving.

Actually happened to us (ask Hev456) :shifty:

Reply 15

Blue Rose

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ChicaBonita

Well I'm not kind of authority on it, but I've read around that most people don't get it back. Especially due to the communal areas, where is one person leaves it in a bit of a mess/ destroys something, everyone doesn't get their thing back.
That's why they have a damage deposit, so that they don't necessarily give it back, otherwise what would be the point?

I made sure I cleaned the whole corridor before I left, well the shower and kitchen, though it was never that dirty anyway, I best get mine back. Well I cashed in the cheque the other day, but I heard they can ask for it back or something because they inspect it after you get your cheque. I dunno but no matter what I'll get mine back. Lol I did leave an iron mark on the carpet but whatever lol and it isn't THAT bad. I think if I were to be charged I'd know by know. My friend had burns on his carpet, serious burns and they told him he wasn't getting his deposit back. My burn happened aaaages ago and they inspected my room several times and said nothing :biggrin:

Reply 16

Blue Rose

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Truered

Especially when a person moving out clears out their room and dumps four bags of rubbish in the kitchen before leaving.

Actually happened to us (ask Hev456) :shifty:

I thought the last people had to take all rubbish outside anyway.

Reply 17

random_bloke

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i smoked in my room all year and chipped the paint off the radiator, and got 100% of my deposit back.

Reply 18

Hev456

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Truered

Especially when a person moving out clears out their room and dumps four bags of rubbish in the kitchen before leaving.

Actually happened to us (ask Hev456) :shifty: